UNCG continually benefits from the advice and support of more than 500 individuals – executives, professionals, and community leaders – who serve on departmental advisory boards, foundation boards, and executive committees.

The boards have a common purpose of enhancing the work of their programs and departments, but their impact far exceeds a simple list of their objectives and goals. Advisory boards provide the kind of combined expertise that corporations would pay millions for, but that are given freely through the generosity of community and corporate leaders. In the process, these volunteers provide essential real-world insight to UNCG ’s teaching, research and outreach programs... (Read more)

Keith Debbage

FNB Southeast and UNCG are working together to bring more companies and more jobs to the Triad’s rapidly developing transport logistics sector.

FNB has contributed a grant of $25,000 to the UNCG Department of Geography to support an initiative that will send a clear message to corporate executives, economic developers, and the news media that the Triad is a viable, national market for transport logistics... (Read more)

VF Corporation is growing leaders for the U.S. textile industry by providing UNCG faculty and students access to first-hand, international experience in the apparel industry. The company’s engagement with UNCG continues a long-standing tradition of leadership with the University... (Read more)

Ever since the Enron and WorldCom scandals five years ago, corporate malfeasance has been a hot issue. John A. Allison, chairman and CEO of BB&T, believes he knows one way to address the problem – give business students a better understanding of the essential connection between free markets and morality.... (Read more)