On the podcast today is David Harrison, president of Columbus State Community College, who recently joined Columbus Business First in studio to talk about what led him into higher education leadership. Since 2010, Harrison has been at the helm of Columbus State, an institution with about 45,000 students. And like his students, Harrison has taken a relatively nontraditional path into the education world. Harrison was the first person in his family to go to college. He also started out as a consultant in the private sector at the company that eventually became Accenture. But he was eventually inspired to pursue education by the support of his wife, a special education teacher.