President's Bio
Dr. Timothy S. Mescon is the fourth president of Columbus State. He assumed that responsibility in August 2008. Currently he serves as a trustee at the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, a member of the boards of the United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley, the Boy Scouts of America- Chattahoochee Council and the Fort Benning Futures Partnership Board. Previously, for 18 years, Mescon was dean at the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University in metropolitan Atlanta, where he held the Tony and Jack Dinos Eminent Scholar Chair of Entrepreneurship.
Dr. Mescon is the author of more than 200 articles and cases and has co-authored four books, his latest, Entrepreneurship: Venture Initiation, Management and Development which was published in 2008. Additionally, he has co-authored an audiotape series entitled Management Excellence for Nightingale-Conant. Mescon sits on the Accreditation Quality Committee for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
Dr. Mescon received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, MBA from Southern Methodist University and B.A. from Tulane University. He has served on the faculties of Arizona State University and the University of Miami. He was founding dean of the Frank Perdue School of Business at Salisbury University in Maryland. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Kingston University (U.K.) School of Business and Law. Additionally, Dr. Mescon has served as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Aston in Birmingham, England and Nanjing University in China and as a Visiting Fellow at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Dr. Mescon is married to Lauren, and they have four children: William, Preston, Abbie and David.
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