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Website for the Turner College's New Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Now Live

The webpage for the Turner College's new Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is now live. The link to it is found on the Turner College's main webpage, as shown below, where webpages for three of the College's Centers are accessible below the links for webpages concerning the College's three academic units.


Clicking the link takes one to the Center's webpage, where at the top its Mission and Vision are provided. The portion of the page is shown below.


As the insert above indicates, the Center's Mission ". . . is to teach, encourage, and support students seeking to start new business ventures." The stated Vision of the Center ". . . is to become the organization that students, faculty, and staff at Columbus State University and residents of the Chattahoochee region may receive assistance with their efforts to start and manage new business ventures." Next, under the Student Services heading the webpage indicates that full- and part-time students seeking to start new business, as well as students who are interested in the Business Pitch Competition, may directly seek assistance from the Center through a portal to a request form. That portion of the webpage is shown below. 


Next up is a Community Resources heading, where live links to local resources are provided. As shown below, these links take visitors to either the Columbus office of the Georgia Small Business Development Center, SCORE, or StartUP Columbus.


As shown below, the next piece of the webpage includes the Business Pitch Competition heading. Here the visitor is provided some information about the Center's annual business pitch competition, which is held in the spring. There is also a live link to a separate Business Pitch Competition Webpage that has additional details about the competition. Stay connected to Turner Business for more on this in the future.


At the bottom of the webpage are contact and other details. This portion of the webpage is shown below.


As indicated above, the Center's Advisory Board currently consists of Steve Taylor and Alvin "Cav" Cavalier. Also, and Turner Business may be breaking some news here, Turner College management professor Kirk Heriot is listed as the Center's Interim Director. Stay connected to Turner Business for more about the future transition from Heriot to a permanent director. Lastly, an indication that the Center will in the future have a student assistant, the Center's e-mail address, and a live link to a map showing the location of the Center on CSU's main campus are provided at the bottom of the new webpage. 

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