{"id":1697,"date":"2017-09-05T10:04:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T14:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2022-02-16T12:09:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:09:53","slug":"bbt-continues-support-american-capitalism-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/2017\/09\/05\/bbt-continues-support-american-capitalism-center\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8211; BB&amp;T continues support of American Capitalism Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"blog_img wp-post-image alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ucomm\/files\/BBTCheckPresentation_07-12-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"410\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Marshall University has received the tenth installment in a series of $100,000 gifts from BB&amp;T supporting the BB&amp;T Center for the Advancement of American Capitalism at the university\u2019s Lewis College of Business. The check presentation ceremony took place July 12 at the Brad D. Smith Foundation Hall on Marshall\u2019s Huntington campus.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of BB&amp;T including David L. Helmer, Senior Vice President and Regional Corporate Banking Manager; Bobby Blakley, Community Banking Regional President; and Spencer Murphy, Huntington Market President; presented the latest check of $100,000 to Dr. Ron Area, CEO of the Marshall University Foundation Inc., and Dr. Avinandan Mukherjee, dean of the Lewis College of Business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe BB&amp;T Foundation continues to invest in the BB&amp;T Center for Advancement of American Capitalism, which is essential for student success,\u201d Area said. \u201cThe partnership with BB&amp;T is instrumental to our entrepreneurship program, as well as to Marshall University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBB&amp;T continues to partner with Marshall University to recruit talented individuals for our organization,\u201d Helmer said. \u201cThese bright students are our industry\u2019s future leaders and we anticipate an impeccable return on our investment of continuing their education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BB&amp;T Center sponsors a lecture series and an upper-division course in capitalism for business students, among other activities.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ucomm\/2017\/07\/20\/bbt-continues-support-american-capitalism-center-marshall\/\">*Original Article<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University has received the tenth installment in a series of $100,000 gifts from BB&amp;T supporting the BB&amp;T Center for the Advancement of American Capitalism at the university\u2019s Lewis College of Business. The check presentation ceremony took place July 12 at the Brad D. Smith Foundation Hall on Marshall\u2019s Huntington campus. Representatives of BB&amp;T including<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7831,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/7831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/cob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}