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The Commercial Real Estate Women of Charlotterecentlyraised $3,000 for a scholarshipfund to benefitstudentsstudying real estate finance and development in the M.B.A. program at UNC Charlotte. CREW Charlotte’s Community Relations Committee organized the Red, Black and White Casino Night on May 17. More than 140 people attended the event, which was held at the historic Palmer […]

The Belk College of Business has implemented a change in its undergraduate Progression Requirement effective Monday, August 13, 2007. *********** The Belk College of Business was at full capacity in almost all 3000-level required core courses for undergraduate majors in Fall 2006. The College is implementing an additional requirement related to the Progression Courses due […]

A study by Craig Depken, who recently joined the Department of Economics, was cited in an August 7 editorial in the Wall Street Journal about ticket scalping. Depken, who came to UNC Charlotte from the University of Texas Arlington and conducted his study there, found that “cities with anti-scalping laws average per-game season ticket prices […]

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 […]