UNCW: Cameron School of Business

Summer 2009

Online Alumni Magazine of the Cameron School of Business

Greetings from the UNCW Cameron School of Business

This past spring we celebrated our 30th anniversary as a business school. During Business Week and at the retired faculty and alumni mixer, I enjoyed the opportunity to reconnect with many alumni to learn why they valued their business education. Invariably, conversations shifted to the difficult economy and then to what today’s business students need to learn and know to succeed upon graduation. What I frequently heard was the Cameron School of Business needs to continue to stress the combination of things that makes us so unique. MORE

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Historic business classroom photo

Cameron School:
Celebrating 30 years

By Joanna Rickard
CSB service learning coordinator

There is no doubt that in the last 30 years the faces, buildings and campus of UNCW have changed. But one thing has remained constant: the Cameron School of Business and its guiding mission to prepare students to become business leaders in an evolving world and to enhance learning and service to the community through the growth of intellectual capital.

Whether you walked the halls of Hoggard, Bear or Cameron Hall, you are now among the more than 10,000 graduates who are proud Cameron School of Business alumni.

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Wes Berlin

Remembering
Wes Berlin

On June 4, 2009, the Cameron School lost a great teacher, mentor, colleague and friend.

Wes Berlin joined the CSB Marketing Department faculty in 2002 as an Executive in Residence and as a Cameron Executive Network (CEN) mentor.

Teaching sales and marketing courses, Berlin was praised frequently by students for the impact he made on both their personal and professional lives.

After an impressive 30-year sales career with IBM, Berlin and his wife Rita relocated to Wilmington. It was not long after the move that he found his way to Cameron Hall. In and out of the classroom, Berlin demanded full effort from his students.

Woody Hall presentation

Slow economic expansion predicted

Following a year of virtually no growth, the local economy of Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties is forecast to expand by approximately one percent over 2009 and three percent over 2010. William W. "Woody" Hall Jr., senior economist with the Center for Business and Economic Services at the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Cameron School of Business, announced the predictions during a June 23 news conference.

Hall noted that actual economic growth in the local area for 2008 of 0.75 percent came in at about half of that initially forecast, largely due to declines in several measures of local economic activity over the last three quarters of the year.

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Students studying abroad

Study abroad gives
students ‘leg up’

By Autumn Beam ’10

In today’s growing global business market, it is imperative for college students to gain experience in international settings and get a head start in relation to their competitors.

Denise DiPuccio, assistant provost of international programs says, “There are many benefits to studying abroad, but one of the most important benefits is the ‘leg-up’ in the professional world. Research has shown that employers look for and prefer new hires with international experience. It shows that they are adaptable, and have good communication skills.”