Columbus State University has taken a lead role among Georgia colleges and universities in raising the level of computer science education. Starting this fall, CSU will offer a computer science endorsement as an add-on to its undergraduate and graduate degree programs in secondary education under guidelines recently established by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission.

Kent M. Keith, CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, named the city of Columbus, Georgia as the nation's first “Servant-Leader City.” The designation came during a luncheon that was part of a 'preconference” that the Greenleaf Center held in Columbus before the Center’s 20th Annual International Conference in Atlanta. Special recognition of the city was approved at a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Greenleaf Center, an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the awareness, understanding, and practice of servant leadership throughout the world.

Columbus State University (CSU) is set to offer a graduate program with a degree track in servant leadership that’s both rare and tailored especially for the Columbus area professional community. The degree track is part of CSU’s new Master of Science in Organizational Leadership program. “With few graduate programs in the field, this degree will position CSU to not only meet a local need, but to also become a national model for graduate education in servant leadership,” said Linda Hadley, dean of CSU’s Turner College of Business and Computer Science, which will administer the program.