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UNC Charlotte has been selected for a prestigious 2008 Community Engagement elective classification by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The designation recognizes institutions that have internalized and sustained their commitment to collaborate with communities through teaching, research, and outreach. “From the beginning, this University has had a rich history of community involvement,” […]

Jill Lajdziak, general manager of General Motors’ Saturn division,spoke toundergraduatestudents in the Belk College duringa recent visit to Charlotte. Lajdziak, who headed Saturn’ssales, service and marketing operations before being named general manager in 1999, discussedSaturn’s strategy for introducing new models -including a hybrid-with Dana Lanham’s retail marketing class. She also visited the College of Engineering’s […]

Joe Price, a 1983 graduate of the Belk College of Business and a member of the college’s Business Advisory Council, has been named chief financial officer of Bank of America, effective January 1, 2007. “Joe Price is a strong and experienced leader, and a straightforward communicator,”commented Ken Lewis, chairman and CEO of Bank of America. […]

Sungjune Park andChandrasekar Subramaniam, both assistant professors of management information systems, have been awardeda grantfor their pedagogical project, “The Use of Virtualization Technologies in Information Systems Education.” The Faculty CID Grant is funded by UNC Charlotte to support innovation in curriculum and instructional development.

Students from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, UNC Charlotte and Germany participated in a global summit yesterday to share perspectives on world hunger. The title of the summit, hosted and organized by the UNC Charlotte chapter of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) was “Hunger & Poverty: Uniting Youth for a Common Cause.” CMS students from the Center for […]

Tao-Hsien (Dolly) King has been appointed the Rush S. Dickson Professor of Finance in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte. King, who earned a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, joined the Belk College in 2006 as an associate professor. Before coming to UNC Charlotte, she taught at the University of […]

Daryl Kerr, director for undergraduate student services in the Belk College of Business, recently received the Faculty Career Champion Award by the UNC Charlotte Career Center. Awarded annually, the Faculty Career Champion Award recognizesfaculty members for their commitment to career development issues, their championship of career related services and programs, their efforts to increase employer […]

Dr. Joseph B. Mazzola has been named dean of The Belk College of Business at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Later this summer, he will join one of the Carolinas’ largest business programs, with more than 2,500 undergraduate students, 500 graduate students and 84 full-time faculty members. Mazzola, a professor at the McDonough […]

UNC Charlotte re-launched its successful “Community Conversations: Changing Times…Changing Minds” speaker series this spring with a panel discussion focused on jobs and the economic recovery, hosted by the Belk College of Business at the Levine Museum of the New South. The topic of the March 17 conversation was “Charlotte’s Changing Workforce: Trends and Outlooks for […]

The Economics seminar scheduled for Friday, Feb. 27, has been cancelled due to inclement weather in the speaker’s home city. Additional information will be available on the Belk College website when the seminar is rescheduled.