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In what may be a first for Georgia, Columbus State University is partnering with the Muscogee County School District on a National Security Agency (NSA) grant to develop and implement a course in cybersecurity education specifically designed for middle school students.   The $50,000 NSA grant allows CSU’s TSYS School of Computer Science and its TSYS Center for Cybersecurity to work with Rothschild Middle School Leadership Academy to develop and implement a course in cybersecurity education specifically designed for 7th and 8th grade middle school students.   About 140 7th and 8th grade students at Rothschild Middle School will have the appropriate prerequisite to take the year-long elective course on cybersecurity education during the 2017-2018 academic year. “ Whether you are six or 60 years old, cybersecurity is important to us all,” said Wayne Summers , professor and chairperson of CSU’s TSYS School of Computer Science. “By teaching the elements of cybersecurity in middle...

Fady Mansour recently joined the economics faculty in the Turner College from Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota, where he served as a visiting assistant professor of economics.  His research interests include health economics and labor economics, and his work on economic insecurity and fertility appears in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues .  He has also presented his research at the annual meetings of the Midwest Economic Association and of the Academy of Economics and Finance.  Mansour completed doctoral degree requirements in economics from Middle Tennessee State University in 2017 .

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Female faculty members hoping to advance to the highest ranks of academia face significant barriers due to male-dominated environments at colleges and universities, according to a new study co-authored by Frank Mixon , professor of economics in Columbus State University’s Turner College of Business. “One of the striking findings is that female management professors exhibit, on average, the same degree of job mobility — captured by the number of prior academic appointments held — as their male counterparts, yet face a lower probability of holding a named (endowed) professorship,” said Mixon. The study, published in the Journal of Management , suggests that a masculine-gendered environment dominates colleges of business, leading to shifting standards when it comes to the highest senior appointments in academe. While the data was collected in business schools throughout the United States, the researchers believe their results would be replicable in other academic setti...

The Turner College’s 2017 Business Plan Competition                                                                   was, according to Jack Goldfrank , the most impressive of any over the six-year history of the competition.  According to Goldfrank, the Turner College’s Executive-in-Residence and a member of the advisory panel for the competition, there were 51 business plan submissions from CSU students, secondary school students from the Muscogee County area, and residents of the greater Columbus community.  The competition’s faculty advisor, Kirk Heriot , the Turner College’s Crowley Endowed Chair of Entrepreneurship, was pleased to announce that CSU student Michaela Waldeck won first place, and a check for $3,000, for a concept known as Tata Toga.  Waldeck’s product con...

  A number of Turner College faculty and staff were recognized by the administrative team at the 2017 annual retreat.   Laurence Marsh , associate professor of management, received the Turner College Graduate Faculty Award.   In recognizing Marsh, Dean Linda Hadley remarked on his many contributions to the college’s M.S. degree program in organizational leadership.   Marsh teaches both Negotiations and Strategic Leadership in that curriculum.   Associate professor of computer science, Radhouane Chouchane , received the Turner College Teaching Award.   As noted elsewhere in this issue of Turner Business , Chouchane was also a finalist for the 2016 CSU Educator of the Year Award. The Turner College Research Award was won by Andres Jauregui , associate professor of economics.  Jauregui’s recent research has been published in top-shelf journals, such as the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics , Cornell Hospitality Quarterly , and the Journal of ...

Turner College business and computer science faculty were big winners at the 2017 Faculty & Staff Recognition and Excellence Awards ceremony, held in CSU’s Lumpkin Center on May 2, 2017.   Especially impressive was the success of faculty of the TSYS School of Computer Science, which included Rania Hodhod , who received the 2017 CSU Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award.   Hodhod, an assistant professor of computer science, has published more than 40 reference articles in the areas of intelligent systems, machine learning, educational games and computational creativity.   She recently led her undergraduate students to present their research at the Big South Undergraduate Research Symposium in North Carolina, where they won Best Science Paper Award.   Joining Hodhod was Radhouane Chouchane , an associate professor of computer science, who received the 2017 CSU Excellence in Online Teaching Award.   Chouchane has taught courses in computer security, superv...

Turner College associate professor of marketing, Ed O’Donnell , captured that CSU Educator of the Year Award at the 2017 Scholastic Honors Convocation, whi ch was held inside Legacy Hall in the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts.   This award is voted on by CSU students and sponsored by CSU’s Student Government Association.   O’Donnell, who earned a PhD in marketing from Kent State University, has also received CSU’s Faculty Research and Scholarship Award (2011), and in 2013 he was CSU’s representative for the University System of Georgia Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award.   One year later, in 2014, O’Donnell represented CSU as a nominee for the University System of Georgia Regents’ Scholarship of Teaching Award. Two of the other four finalists for the 2017 Educator of the Year Award also come from the Turner College.   These are Radhouane Chouchane , an associate professor of computer science in the TSYS School, and Alan Tidwell , an associate professor of fina...