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UNC Charlotte presents “Charlotte Informatics 2012: Competing and Winning through Analytics,” a groundbreaking conference on the impact of “big data” and analytics, on Tuesday, May 15. Members of the Charlotte business community will gather to hear from a diverse group of leading national thinkers, visionaries, experts and executives from business, technology and education. The conference […]

For UNC Charlotte, this year’s Commencement marks a unique milestone as the University will recognize its 100,000th alumnus during ceremonies on Saturday, May 12. To help celebrate, past alumni association presidents will be on hand, along with a member of the Class of 1965, the first graduating class following the University’s designation as the fourth […]

UNC Charlotte Provost Joan Lorden recently presented the 2012 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising to the Belk College of Business Advising Center. In recognizing the Belk College’s Advising Center, Dr. Lorden noted efforts by center staff to enhance the advising experience for students through a number of changes, including the creation of […]

Kristine Hopkins has been selected to serve as the first director of the new Student Center for Professional Development (SCPD). Hopkins, currently the director of undergraduate advising in the Belk College, will begin her new duties April 30. In her new role, she will develop programs and services for the SCPD, an innovative initative that […]

The Belk College of Business recently presented its annual awards for faculty and staff. Monica Johar, Business Information Systems & Operations Management (BISOM), received the Best Paper Award for her paper titled “Analyzing Sharing in Peer-to-Peer Networks Under Varioius Congestion Measures,” which was published in Information Systems Research, considered a premier journal for the IS […]

Retiring Belk College Accounting Professor, Dr. Ed Malmgren, will be honored at an Accounting alumni social on Thursday, April 26. The event begins at 5:00 PM in the Friday Building Reading Rooms on UNC Charlotte’s main campus. Dr. Malmgren came to UNC Charlotte in 1972 after earning his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. Over […]

Watch the latest episode of Inside UNC Charlotte for a profile of the Belk College’s highly regarded economist and the impact of his UNC Charlotte/Babson Capital Economic Forecast for North Carolina.

The Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte has maintained its business and accounting accreditation by AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Only 649 schools of business, or less than five percent worldwide, have earned this distinguished hallmark of excellence in management education. Of these, only 178 institutions have earned specialized accreditation […]

Richard Buttimer, associate dean for faculty and research in the Belk College of Business, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA). AREUEA was founded in 1964 to advance the scope of knowledge in the fields of real estate development, planning and economics and to […]

The Risk Management & Insurance (RMI) program in the Belk College of Business co-hosted an automobile insurance symposium at UNC Charlotte March 23. More than 150 people attended, including students, faculty and staff from UNC Charlotte and co-host Appalachian State University, as well as many industry professionals. “Automobile insurance is the largest property and casualty […]