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The Turner College's February 17th Career Fair (11:00 am to 2:00 pm in the CSU Student Recreation Center) is quickly approaching and it's important for business and computer science students to take advantage of this opportunity to connect with employers, explore internships and full-time roles, and build professional relationships by showing up prepared. For each student this means getting your résumé reviewed, practicing interview and networking skills, learning how to introduce yourself to employers, building confidence for career fair conversations, exploring the Career Closet for Professional Attire to make a great first impression, updating your Handshake and LinkedIn photos by using the Center for Career Coaching's free/on-demand photobooth, and registering for the Career Fair on Handshake in advance in order to view attending employers and plan your strategy. According to Turner College Career Success Coach Kate Vogel , "The Center for Career Coaching is read...

The 2026 Georgia Economic Outlook Series arrives in Columbus on January 27. Presented by the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, this event has provided more than 40 years of reliable, research-driven data from the renowned Selig Center for Economic Growth. Jeff Humphreys, an award-winning economist, conducts the in-depth research, and Santanu Chatterjee, Interim Dean of the Terry College of Business, will present the findings, offering expert analysis of national, state, and local trends. Turner College Acting Dean Tesa Leonce , Turner College management professor Michael Rothlisberger , and Choose Columbus' Missy Kendrick and Andy Hilmes will present the local forecast. This is an invaluable opportunity to network with peers, enjoy lunch, and prepare for the year ahead with the tools to make informed decisions. Don’t miss out on the insights that will help you navigate the economic landscape of 2026 and the opportunity to support our leadership. The event is set fo...

Turner College faculty, staff and students are invited to visit the Schwob Library on CSU's main campus tomorrow in order to attend the Spring 2026 Legacy Talks, formerly known as the Rites of Passage presentations. The event, which is scheduled for 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm, is a recurring one at CSU that honors those CSU faculty who have recently earned promotion to full professor. Of the 14 recently promoted CSU faculty, four represent the Turner College. These are  management professor Phillip Bryant , business administration professor John Finley ,  management professor Kevin Hurt , and finance professor Gisung Moon . Please join Turner Business in celebrating their achievement.  

CSU's Vice President for Student Affairs, Gina Sheeks, is set to retire after a 32-year career at the institution. To honor her service and career, a retirement reception has been scheduled for Wednesday, January 21 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm in the Lumpkin Center's President's Club on the CSU main campus. All faculty and staff are invited to congratulate Gina on her outstanding tenure at CSU.

This being the first week of spring semester, the TSYS School is happy to welcome back its cybersecurity Nexus students, including new Cohort 16. These students are pictured at left, with cybersecurity Nexus instructor Armando Fernandez . Yesterday, the program welcomed back several alumni who spoke to the group of students. These included Patrick Aiken , Manager of Global Cybersecurity Awareness and Culture at Aflac, Jett Robinson , Security Systems Administrator at Aflac, Natasha Harris , Global Security Systems Administrator at Aflac, and Gabrielle Holmes-Hodge , Information Security Officer at CSU.     

At its December 2025 meeting, the CSU Faculty Senate discussed the proposal process for a salary study. As part of that discussion, it was reported that the USG Chancellor received a great deal of feedback regarding the recent merit raise. Based on the meeting minutes, although the Fall 2025 merit raise iteration was "not a seamless process," CSU is considering making merit raises an annual incentive. Based on reporting by Turner Business , if that happens faculty evaluations in the Turner College will need to be standardized across the three departments in order to avoid the pitfalls associated with the Fall 2025 merit raises. That would likely mean that an Ad Team meeting, during which each Turner College faculty member's annual evaluation will have to be compared with those of other faculty members, will be needed. Stay connected to Turner Business for more on this issue. An advertisement for a new Turner College dean is not currently among the few new employment noti...

Turner College economics professor and Associate Dean  Tesa Leonce 's tenure as Acting Dean began on December 13, 2025, the organization's webpages were only recently updated to reflect this transition. As part of the transition, John Finley  now serves as the Acting Associate Dean of the Turner College, in addition to his service as the Chair of the Department of Management and Marketing. Both of these changes, as depicted on the Turner College website, are shown in the image above.  Additionally, the Turner College's webpages now include a message from the new Acting Dean, as shown below. The search for a new Dean of the Turner College is set to begin soon, with the goal of having a new Dean in place on July 1, 2026. Failing that, the plan is to renew the search in the fall of 2026 with the goal of having a new Dean in place by July 1, 2027. In that case, Leonce and Finley will serve as Interim Dean and Interim Associate Dean, respectively, during the 2026-2027 academic...

TSYS School cybersecurity Nexus student Michael Slaughter was recently named  a Student Ambassador for CSU. "I also want to give a big thank you to Elke Brumbaugh for her recommendation for this role. She’s a phenomenal professor and a great mentor," Slaughter stated. At the end of Fall 2025 Slaughter was named to the CSU President's List for earning a 3.8 GPA or higher during that semester. "Overall, I’m very proud of what I accomplished and I’m looking forward to what this new year will bring me," Slaughter added.

Turner College management professor Kevin Hurt and two graduates of the Turner College's MSOL program –  Pierce Ippolito and Joshua Kay   – are beginning the new year on a positive note with publication of their paper on the effect of servant leadership and psychological safety on employee commitment and workplace engagement in the current issue of the Journal of Values-Based Leadership . The trio's study  presents a conceptual model of servant leadership, psychological safety, work engagement,  and individual commitment wherein psychological safety, defined as  freedom from fear of negative consequences to self-image,  status, or career,  is positioned as a causal factor that provides answers  addressing why servant leaders have positive effects on individual commitment and work engagement.   Hurt and his colleagues first point out that a psychologically safe climate describes an environment in which employees are safe to speak up and...

A prior  post from August of 2025 describes research on h omomorphic encryption, which is a process that allows computations on encrypted data without revealing it to anyone other than an owner or an authorized collector, by TSYS School computer scientist Yesem Kurt Peker and her student Rahul Raj . Their study uses Zama’s Concrete compiler to explore the application of TFHE for performing statistical analysis on encrypted data, thereby demonstrating its viability for ensuring statistical confidentiality. The two researchers provide implementations of traditional algorithms for basic statistical computations on encrypted datasets, including the five-number summary, mean, variance, and mode, and record the time required for each operation. The results show that basic tasks like mean and min/max work well for small datasets while keeping data encrypted. Turner Business is proud to report that the paper by Peker and Raj appears in the current issue of the Journal of Cybersecurity a...

The Turner College is looking to hire a new group of tutors for its business tutoring lab. Successful candidates will be able to assist students in developing their understanding of business-related subjects as well as guide them throughout their learning journeys. The requirements for the position include being a sophomore or higher majoring in either business or mathematics, successful completion of the business core with at least a 3.0 GPA across business core courses, and a strong proficiency in Excel. Students visiting the lab will be able to receive assistance in ACCT 2101 and 2102, BUSA 2100 and 3115, ECON 2105 and 2106, FINC 3105 and 3115, and MISM 3115.  

Columbus State University has named 1,198 undergraduate students to its Fall 2025 President’s List and Deans’ Lists. This represents more than 20% of all undergraduate students enrolled in the fall. The Deans’ List represents an elite group of undergraduate students who excelled in the classroom by earning a minimum 3.60 semester GPA in at least 12 semester credit hours during the fall. They include 432 students—more than 7% of the university’s fall undergraduate enrollment: 96 from the College of the Arts, 83 from the Turner College of Business & Technology, 107 from the College of Education & Health Professions, 137 from the College of Letters & Sciences, and nine dual-enrolled high school students, undeclared students or those from the University College. In addition, 22 students on the list are also enrolled in the Honors College. Turner College students making the Dean's List are listed below.

The TSYS School is seeking to hire a graduate student in computer science to work as a lab assistant. The successful candidate will assist faculty with Java- and Python-based projects, support undergraduate students, and level-up one's own skills at the same time. The position pays a $6,000 stipend for the semester and includes a tuition waiver. The assistant will be expected to work 19 hours per week, be enrolled in at least 6 credit hours, and hold a 3.0 or higher GPA.  If this sounds like your kind of gig, check out the flyer above and apply through the CSU Employment Portal.

Columbus State University has named 1,198 undergraduate students to its Fall 2025 President’s List and Deans’ Lists. This represents more than 20% of all undergraduate students enrolled in the fall.  The President’s List represents the pinnacle of academic achievement and recognizes undergraduate students who achieved a minimum 3.80 semester grade point average in at least 12 semester credit hours during the fall. It includes 766 students—more than 13% of its fall undergraduate enrollment: 177 from the College of the Arts, 167 from the Turner College of Business & Technology, 155 from the College of Education & Health Professions, 259 from the College of Letters & Sciences, and eight dual-enrolled high school students, undeclared students or those from the University College. In addition, 67 students on the list are also enrolled in the Honors College. The President's List students from the Turner College are listed below.

New research by TSYS School computer scientist Lydia Ray  along with Ramakanta Patra of Cardiff Metropolitan University, Debapriya Sen of Toronto Metropolitan University and Giorgos Stamatopoulos of the University of Crete  studies a duopoly model of product competition between  a proprietary firm and an open-source firm that each sell the same product, but of  different kinds. Within their model there is a probability that each product can suffer  damage (“a bug”), such that for the proprietary product, the bug can be only internally  f ixed by the firm during its next product upgrade. In contrast, for the open-source product , the bug can be fixed by end users (consumers) and the probability of  f ixing the problem increases as more consumers purchase the open-source product. Ray and her colleagues model  two segments of consumers: a segment of low-technical consumers  who always buys the proprietary product and another segment of high...

A recent post  here at Turner Business  discusses new research by Turner College economists Frank Mixon  and Fady Mansour , along with Auburn University's Steve Caudill, indicating that the impact of violent crime on human behavior potentially touches upon whether U.S. Representatives perform their legislative responsibilities or instead engage in shirking behavior. The results their study suggest that representatives from notably dangerous Congressional districts (i.e., those where gun homicide rates exceed the mean gun homicide rate by two standard deviations or more) tend to engage in less shirking behavior than other representatives. That is, these legislators tend to skip a significantly smaller percentage – representing almost 35% of the overall mean percentage – of roll call votes than others in the U.S. House during the 118th Congress. Since our prior post, this study has been accepted for publication by the American Journal of Economics and So...