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We've invited you here to announce a new collaboration that will have a profound impact
on the Belk College of Business and the ongoing relationship between UNC Charlotte and Belk
Incorporated. The gift we celebrate today will be instrumental in furthering our position
as a provider of a high quality, high value education focusing on programs that are responsive
to the changing needs of the business community, particularly for new employees. To make the
official announcement of this exciting gift please welcome, good friend of UNC Charlotte
and mine, Belk Chairman and CEO of Belk Incorporated, Tim Belk and also Belk President and COO Johnny
Belk, gentlemen. So as Phil mentioned the ties between Belk and UNCC run deep and we
were honored to have the business school named after our family and after our company. When
you come out here as well as when you go to the main campus, you can tell, you know, there
is a big pulse going on and there are great things happening. I'd like to, if I could
call Johnny forward to help us with the unfurling and announce the amount and we've also got
three students here which I think are going to help us do that too, Kelsey, Courtney and
David. They are three undergraduate business students and are also Dean's Fellows, so
I think we're going to maybe unfurl the banner and then I'll turn it over to Johnny.
It's all about making an investment in an institution like UNCC that is really, really
special. As Tim shared with you, our world is changing, our customers are changing, our
business is changing deeply and we're excited about the five million dollars because it's
going to help make a big impact on the Belk School of Business. Tim and Johnny, on behalf
of the students, faculty and staff of the Belk College of Business, I thank you so much
for this incredible gift. All of us take our responsibility as stewards of the Belk College
of Business very seriously, not only on this big day, but every day. And we're humbled
and inspired by the confidence that you've shown through this investment in our future.
Thank you very much.