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Turner College Management Professor Kevin Hurt Wins 2026 Turner College Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award

Turner College management professor Kevin Hurt was a big winner at the Turner College's recent Strategic Planning Retreat, taking home the 2026 Turner College Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award. As indicated here previously, Hurt offers his students a unique research-based approach to graduate education. In addition to assigning academic readings and a research requirement in his MSOL classes, his students are also assigned movies and/or TED Talks to watch, after which they are tasked with diagnosing whether a particular leader demonstrates servant leadership. In completing this assignment, Hurt's students must go beyond a simple "yes" or "no" answer and instead link their perspective back to the academic literature to justify their positions. Students are then graded on how well they defend their positions with the academic literature, not on the correctness of their conclusion. These diagnosis papers yield the additional benefit of stimulating interesting conversations between the students. Hurt's research-approach to MSOL education also extends to the scholarship of teaching. In fact, when it comes to conducting research with current and former MSOL students, Hurt is usually the first person that comes to mind. Hurt continued his practice of working with Turner College graduate students into 2026 with two additional journal publications. Turner Business congratulates Hurt on this recognition of his contributions to the MSOL program.
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