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Belk College graduates Kelley Earnhardt Elledge ’95 and Michelle Luhr Menard ’97received the Charlotte Business Journal‘s Women in Business Achievement Award at a luncheon July 16. Elledge is vice president and general manager of JR Motorsports, a company owned by her brother, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. Elledge, who earned a bachelor’s degree in operations […]

Twenty-eight students from Mexico will participate in a special “graduation” ceremony at UNC Charlotte on Friday, June 29 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM in Atkins Library Room 143. The students have earned an undergraduate certificate in global business management through a partnership between UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business and Tecnologico de Monterrey, one […]

Steven Ott, director of the Center for Real Estate at UNC Charlotte, has been appointed the interim dean of the Belk College of Business, starting July 1. UNC Charlotte Provost Joan Lorden announced the appointment to fill a void left by the departure of Dean Claude Lilly, who stepped down this month to accept the […]

The North Carolina economy is expected to continue its sixth year of economic expansion in 2007, UNC Charlotte economist John Connaughton reported today in his TIAA-CREF/UNC Charlotte Economic Forecast for the state. Connaughton estimates that real, inflation-adjusted Gross State Product (GSP) is expected to increase by 2.0 percent over the 2006 level. “Since World War […]

Professors from the Department of Economics have won all three of this year’s Belk College faculty awards, marking the first departmental “sweep” in recent memory. Young Davis received theOutstanding Service Award. Heserved as chair of the Department of Economics for 21 years and was instrumental in the development of theM.S. in Economics degree andthe TIAA-CREF/UNC […]

Calvin Brock, a 1999 graduate of UNC Charlotte, will compete for the title of world heavyweight boxing champion on Saturday, Nov. 11 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Brock, who earned a degree in finance and worked in banking before pursuing boxing full-time, willtake onWladimir Klitschko, the current title holder. The fight will be […]

The Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte has formed an advisory council for its new M.B.A. program in Sports Marketing and Management. Council members will provide guidance and support to Belk College administrators as they prepare to launch the Sports M.B.A., which will enroll its first class in August 2007. The Council will review […]

The Belk College’s Department of Finance and Business Law will host “In Search of the Midas Touch: How to Create, Realize and Manage Business Wealth in a Flat World,” on Friday, Nov. 3, from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM The seminar’s featured speaker will be Rob Slee, author and managing director of Robertson & Foley, […]

UNC Charlotte’s M.B.A. program has been featured in The Princeton Review’s 2007 edition of its “Best 282 Business Schools.” According to Robert Franek, Princeton Review VP-Publishing, “We chose schools for this book based on our high regard for their academic programs and offerings, institutional data we collect from the schools, and the candid opinions of […]

The UNC Charlotte chapter of Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) will host its annual “Career Day” for undergraduate business students on Monday, Oct. 23. From 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, business executives from companies throughout the Charlotte region will take over for professors in junior- and senior-level classes in the Belk College of Business. They […]