Belk College of Business

This fall, Michael Maynard will be a Master of Science in Real Estate student, but this summer, he explored urban planning from coast to coast – on his bike.

Maynard is an incoming graduate student who participated in Bike and Build, a national group that organizes cross-country bicycle trips to benefit affordable housing groups.

Jack Cathey, an associate professor and Master of Accountancy program director, and Mike McNamara, partner at GreerWalker, will be guests on the July 23 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast that airs at 2 p.m. Cathey will share information about the master’s program, and McNamara will describe GreerWalker’s partnership with the University and why he recruits from the accounting programs.

Accounting Professor L. Howard Godfrey is being honored by the Charlotte business community for his academic leadership and legacy. He will receive the first Academic Leadership Award during the Charlotte Business Journal’s CFO of the Year Awards July 22. 

David Goldfield, Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History, and Julia Robinson, associate professor of religious studies, will be guests on the July 2 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast. They will talk about the mid-June massacre of nine people at historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston and offer their insights from historical, religious studies, socio-political and other perspectives.

Watch “The Live Wire” via computer or mobile devices starting at 2 p.m.

The College of Education’s Mickey Dunaway, a former principal and superintendent and an expert on public school law, will be the guest on the June 25 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast. He will talk about how schools today continue efforts to maintain the delicate balance between students’ freedom of expression and right to privacy with teachers’ need to maintain a strong learning environment.

Watch “The Live Wire” via computer or mobile devices starting at 2 p.m.

Alumni Jeannette Freedman (MBA ’14) and Kirk Beatty (’87, MBA ’10) will be the guests on the June 18 edition of “The Live Wire,” Inside UNC Charlotte’s streaming webcast. They will share their experiences as students in the MBA program of the Belk College of Business.

Watch “The Live Wire” via computer or mobile devices starting at 2 p.m.

The North Carolina economy is in its sixth consecutive year of economic growth in 2015, UNC Charlotte economist John Connaughton reported in his quarterly forecast for the state.

Connaughton, in his Babson Capital Management/UNC Charlotte Economic Forecast, highlighted five areas of the economy to watch in the near term:

The UNC Charlotte Center for Real Estate and Urban Land Institute Charlotte will hold “Navigating Private Equity Capital Markets” at 1 p.m., Wednesday, April 22, at UNC Charlotte Center City.

This afternoon symposium will feature an inside view of how today’s capital providers assess real estate investment opportunities and what they see for the future.

UNC Charlotte and the University of South Carolina will hold a conference on fixed income securities on Friday and Saturday, April 17-18, at UNC Charlotte Center City.

The 2015 Fixed Income Conference will feature experts presenting the latest information and research on fixed income securities.

Keynote speakers include:

Victor Chen, assistant professor of international management in the Belk College of Business, has received the 2015 Young Professional (YP) Educator Award from the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce Young Professionals (YPs).

The Charlotte Chamber YPs honored 24 finalists who are between 21 and 39 years of age in six categories. The awards were presented earlier this month at the NASCAR Hall of Fame.