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Nikki Stanton has joined the Belk College of Business as assistant director of development. Shewill beworking primarily with donors who give between $1,000 and $25,000 annually. Nikki joinsUNC Charlottefrom the development team at Johnson C. Smith University and is a native of Boston. She holds a B.A. in Mass Communications with a concentration in Public […]

A team of students from UNC Charlotte will travel to Arizona later this month to participate in a case-study competition held in conjunction with a conference of the sports industry’s top business leaders. The UNC Charlotte team is comprised of Lindsay Jefferson (Clarksburg, W.Va.), Larisa Mackey (Fairfax, Va.), Owen Mullin (Amherst, Mass.) and Taylor Walker […]

Influential community leaders Mac Everett, Johnny Harris and Gene Johnson will lead the Charlotte 49ers Football Fundraising Capital Campaign, the university announced at a press conference on February 10. The powerful team also includes a trio of UNC Charlotte alumni who are chief financial officers at threeFortune 500corporations. Everett, who is general chairman of the […]

The Belk College sponsored the Economic Developers Award at tonight’s first annual North Carolina Motorsports Association Awards Banquet, an event thathonored individuals, businesses and organizations that have significantly contributed to– and have positively impacted — the motorsports industry in the state of North Carolina. Dean Claude Lilly presented the award to representatives of Cabarrus County, […]

The North Carolina economy continues a slow recovery from the 2008-09 recession, stumbling a bit in 2011 but with signs pointing to modest but steady gains in 2012 and 2013, UNC Charlotte economist John Connaughton reported today in his quarterly economic forecast for the state. Connaughton cites several areas of concern which may impact the […]

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 […]