Winthrop University encourages student interactions with the business community from throughout the thriving greater Charlotte region, and by 2009 will have a new facility to host such gatherings, as well as offering new learning environments for students in Winthrop’s College of Business Administration.

Vivian M. Carroll Hall, under construction adjacent to the Thurmond Building, will feature the Carroll Capital Markets Training and Trading Center, a facility dedicated to producing future business leaders who have a 21^st century blend of strong fundamentals in wealth management, highly specialized technical trading skills and a global perspective on ever-changing world financial markets. In addition to a trading room with 20-24 computers, a 12-foot electronic stock market ticker board, television monitors and conference room with ‘smart’ technology capabilities, Carroll Hall will feature the following:

• a 195-seat auditorium, two television monitors and adjoining conference room with smart capabilities
• two instructional computer classrooms
• computer science lab
• collaborative learning room for four to eight students working in groups

Over time, Carroll Hall will be augmented by a reception area created from the adjacent former Academic Computing Center building.