Turner Business

The CSU Foundation Board of Trustees recently welcomed eight new trustees, along with a new executive director for the CSU Foundation Properties.  The board is comprised of community leaders who advocate for and support the mission of CSU.  Among the new members is Jason C. “Jay” Alexander, the current CEO and president of Alexander Electric Company, based in Columbus.  He graduated from CSU’s  Turner College of Business  in 2001 and has since earnestly supported CSU.  Alexander is a  Shannon Society  member in recognition of creating endowments that enhance and support excellence at CSU.  Alexander established the Jay and Kellie Alexander Scholarship Endowment to support undergraduate students in the Turner College of Business.  Joining Alexander is W. Allen Pettis, the executive vice president and chief customer officer at TSYS Issuer Solutions, a Global Payments company.  He graduated from the Turner College of Business in 1992,...

Mary Gowan, Chair of the Board of Governors for Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS), the international honor society for AACSB accredited business programs, recently congratulated the Turner College’s Beta Gamma Sigma chapter for earning  High Honors  status for the 2020-2021 academic year, which is   the second-highest distinction possible  for BGS chapters.   By earning High Honors status, the Turner College’s BGS chapter becomes eligible to nominate candidates for some of the honor society’s prestigious global awards, including Outstanding Chapter of the Year and the Business Achievement and Entrepreneurial Achievement Awards, which recognize community business leaders, alumni, or donors.   Gowan, Dean of the Mike Cottrell College of Business at the University of North Georgia, congratulated the Turner College for achieving this outstanding distinction.   “We appreciate your team’s diligent work and your continuing support of Beta Gamma Sigma.   We look for...

  The Turner College’s TSYS School of Computer Science hosted the  ISACA - Atlanta  Chapter’s “Cybersecurity in Action” training workshop in October.  The workshop was held at CSU’s TSYS Cybersecurity Center as part of the university’s  National Cybersecurity Month  lineup of events.  Workshop attendees benefited from four facilitated sessions that included demonstrations of the TSYS School’s new Cyber Range and Security Operations Center (SOC).  Presenters included Fort Benning Garrison Commander Col. Alexis Rivera, W.C. Bradley Director of Information Security Mark Bradford, Global Payments Director of SIEM Engineering Ben Watson, Global Payments Director of Security Incident Response Robert Yager and Synovus Senior Director of Cyber Threat Management and Security Lee Himes.  CSU, one of the first universities in the state to be recognized by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and National Security Agency (NSA) as a Center of Academi...

Columbus and the Valley magazine recently honored Columbus residents in their “5 under 40” and “Rising Stars” lists .  Among the lists were several CSU alumni and faculty.  Of the “5 under 40” honorees, two have ties to the Turner College of Business.  Jessica Ferriter earned a master’s degree in organizational leadership (MSOL) from the Turner College in 2016 and has served on the CSU Alumni Association Board of Directors.  Currently, she is the human resources director at Southeastern Cardiology Associates, PC. She holds both the Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and Associate Certified Coach (ACC) designations, and throughout her career, she has worked in corporate, government and military sectors.  The other honoree, Cortney Laughlin Wilson, is a 2012 graduate of the Turner College’s MSOL program.  In addition to serving as director of CSU’s William B. Turner Center for Servant Leadership, she has volunteered as past president of the CSU Alumni Ass...

  Turner College associate professor Tesa Leonce was recently named to the editorial board of Compensation & Benefits Review .  The journal, which launched in 1969 and is published by SAGE, is the leading journal for senior executives and professionals who design, implement, evaluate and communicate compensation and benefits policies and programs.   Leonce joins scholars from Harvard University, Cornell University, University of Chicago, among others, in comprising the 16-member board.  Her own 2020 publication in the journal, titled “The Inevitable Rise in Dual Income Households and the Intertemporal Effects on Labor Markets,” currently holds the journal’s highest altmetrics score (of 33).  Altmetrics are metrics and qualitative data that are complementary to traditional, citation-based metrics that can include (but are not limited to) citations in public policy documents, discussions on research blogs, mainstream media coverage, and mentions on social net...

  A new study by Turner College economist Frank Mixon and his coauthor João Faria of Florida Atlantic University appearing in Scientometrics is the focus of a July 2021 report by Jack Grove in Times Higher Education .   Grove’s report, titled “What is a Highly Cited Paper Worth? About £10,000 a Year,” indicates that Mixon’s study s ug gests that the impact of a highly cited paper on an academic’s pay may be higher than prior studies have indicated.   The study links publicly available information on pay in three of the largest state university systems in the U.S. to citations data, tracking how changes in one of a scholar’s citation indices resulting from a new publication affects his or her annual income.   According to the study, an economics professor in the state of Illinois could expect to see his or her income increase by 8.9 percent on average if a paper improved his or her citation index by one-half standard deviation.   In Florida, an economics profes...

  Aiken The Turner College Dean’s office recently welcomed three new additions to its staff.   Elizabeth Chess joins the TCOB as the new administrative assistant to the dean.   Cherrese Shunta Walls joins the Turner College from CSU’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences, and will work to provide administrative support to business faculty.   Laurie Aiken joins the TCOB as its new Student Engagement and Recruitment Specialist.   Laurie previously served as a recruiter for Enrollment Services at CSU.