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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 […]

Howard Godfrey, professor of accounting, is one of the recipients of the UNC Board of Governors (BOG) Awards for Teaching Excellence. Established in 1994, the BOG Teaching Excellence Awards emphasize the importance of teaching and rewards good teaching across the UNC system. Recipients are nominated by special committees on their home campuses and selected by […]

The UNC Charlotte Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team won the SIFE USA regional competition March 27, marking their ninth consecutive regional championship. The victory at the regional competition makes UNC Charlotte eligible to attend the SIFE National Exposition in Kansas City, Mo., May 22 – 24, where they will compete against more than 160 […]