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The North Carolina economy continues to grow, with positive indicators including housing prices and the Consumer Confidence Index, UNC Charlotte professor and economist John Connaughton says. During the Mid-Year Economic Update on June 5, Connaughton said the country is now in the second-longest economic expansion since 1854. This economic expansion has been under way for […]

This inaugural class is nothing short of exceptional

UNC Charlotte alumni Matt Tifft and Dylan Lupton (’17) are racing in Saturday’s Xfinity Series Alsco 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, while UNC Charlotte’s Motorsports Engineering program (supplying roughly 15% of NASCAR engineers) is the focus of WSOC-TV’s Saturday night race report.

Once a small business college, UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business is now a well-known name in Charlotte, growing in its role as a vital intellectual resource to the business community. Currently, more than 18,000 Belk College of Business graduates are working in the Charlotte region, placing the college’s alumni network among the city’s four […]

The Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte presented awards to faculty and staff recognizing their accomplishments in teaching, research and service. The 2018 Faculty and Staff Awards were presented by Dean Steven Ott on April 20 to: Paul Gaggl, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy Affiliate, received the Best Paper Award for his […]

UNC Charlotte’s MBA recognized as a top program in the nation

Franz Kellermanns, the Addison H. and Gertrude C. Reese Endowed Chair in International Business, is among the leading scholars worldwide in entrepreneurship, according to the Journal of Small Business Management. In the article “Contributing Forces in Entrepreneurship Research: A Global Citation Analysis,” the journal ranked the top entrepreneurship scholars globally. Kellermanns is the only scholar […]

The North Carolina Economy Continues to Grow

Have you ever been interested to study abroad, while continuing your graduate degree at the Belk College of Business? Main entrance to Università Cattolica Many M.S. of Mathematical Finance and M.S. in Economics graduate students do exactly that in Milan. One student in particular, Rachel Mitchener, M.S. in Math Finance student, recently shared about her […]

Emeritus faculty member Thomas C. Turner, who helped establish the accounting department at UNC Charlotte and remained dedicated to the University throughout his life, died Wednesday, Feb. 21, at the age of 88. When he arrived at the University in fall 1966, Turner assembled a team of professors who shared his commitment to teaching excellence […]