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Professors Present at Sport Marketing Conference

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Sport Administration professors Amy Baker, Ted Peetz and Stephen Shin recently attended and presented at the annual Sport Marketing Association conference in Orlando, Fla.

Shin and Baker presented information, handouts and student’s work examples of “Sport Marketing Plan Project” at the pedagogy symposium in the conference. This display features a final project culminated by students developing an overall marketing plan for a sport business, an organization or a product of their choice. This project enhances understanding of marketing theories and concepts and also promotes practical applicability by creating an original marketing plan paralleled to ones used in sport organizations today.

Peetz presented a case study at the pedagogy symposium which offered instructors material for teaching sport marketing promotional concepts and practices. The presentation included a case and PowerPoint presentation that introduced students to the San Diego Chicken, a legendary sport mascot. Over a decade ago, Peetz worked as a marketing assistant for the San Diego Chicken assisting in the execution of live performances at sporting events across the country. The case offered an informative look into marketing lessons the performer had learned during his 30 plus years as a sport entertainer. (image)

 

 

Li Co-Edits Volume of Essays

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Assistant Professor of Asian Studies & Chinese Language Qingjun (Joan) Li is co-editor, along with Rachana Sachdev of Susquehanna University of Encountering China: Early Modern European Responses. This newly published volume of essays from Bucknell University Press addresses the responses of early modern travelers to China who, awed by the wealth and sophistication of the society they encountered, both attempted primarily to build bridges and express criticisms of China’s local traditions and practices.

Li’s essay in the collection is entitled, “Of Golden Lilies and Gentlewomen: Constructions of Chinese Women in Early Modern European Travel narratives.”

Contributors in the collection engage critically with travelogues, treating them not just as occasional sources of historical information but as primary, literary texts deeply revelatory of the world they describe. The contributors also reach back to the earliest European writings available on China in an effort to broaden and nuance the readers’ understanding of European contact with the Middle Kingdom in the early modern period. While the primary focus of these essays is the external gaze – European sources about China – contributors also tease out aspects of the Chinese world-view of the time, thus generating a conversation between Chinese literary and historical texts and European ones.

Bennett Presents at Broadcast Education District Conference

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Media Studies Associate Professor Sybril Bennett presented “I Still See Opportunities: Now Tweet That!” for the Broadcast Education Association District Two regional conference held at Tennessee State University.  Her presentation focused on the future of journalism and journalism education. Bennett also led a convocation sponsored by Student Advisory Board. She addressed social media, branding and professional presence online.

Walton Presents at Philosophy Conference

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Philosophy Assistant Professor Mélanie Walton presented her paper, “Lyotard on Myth and its Narration: A Solution for or Cause of the Inexpressible?” at The 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy conference on Nov. 1 through 4, in Rochester, N.Y.

President of Tennessee Hospital Association Discusses Future of Healthcare

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Craig Becker, president of the Tennessee Hospital Association, spoke to Belmont faculty and students last week about the future of the healthcare industry, focusing his remarks on the new changes that will be brought about by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

While he realizes that the healthcare industry is about to undergo radical change, he does not fear those changes. “I really am an optimist,” he stated. “And I’m invigorated by chaos. Chaos brings change.”

Craig Becker spoke to students and faculty in the Frist Lecture Hall, located on the fourth floor of the Gordan E. Inman Center.

In the past, he argued that the existing system was not perfect, that there were quality of care issues. The new legislation will force the industry to address these issues sooner rather than later. “Hospitals will be forced to look outside of their four walls.”

He predicts that within the next several years, Tennessee will see a significant decline in its number of hospitals. At present, there are 154 in the state of Tennessee; approximately, 70 to 77 of those are rural hospitals. Becker believes that in five to ten years, there will be only 90 hospitals statewide. Rural hospitals will have to actively seek partnerships with the larger organizations.

In many parts of the state, the rural hospitals are centers of community. Closing them poses a challenge as is it will draw a lot of community resistance, he explained. However, he believes that there is a silver lining. “With this change comes a move away from fee-for-service,” he said.

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Mike Pinter Named 2012 Tennessee Professor of the Year

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Belmont professors selected five times since 2000 for statewide honor

Belmont University’s Dr. Mike Pinter, professor of mathematics and director of the Teaching Center, was named today as the 2012 Tennessee Professor of the Year, an award selection determined by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Dr. Pinter, who is currently in Washington, D.C. for special ceremonies to receive his award, was selected from nearly 300 top professors in the United States. Belmont will be holding its own celebration to honor Dr. Pinter on Nov. 27 from 3-5 p.m. in the Vince Gill Room in the Curb Event Center on campus.

“I’m very excited about receiving the award which will stand as one of the highlights of my teaching career,” Pinter said. “I’m honored to have been nominated by Belmont. I am also humbled by the knowledge that I’m surrounded by many gifted and dedicated teachers among our Belmont faculty whose efforts are not being publicly noted. Mostly, I’m grateful to have creative and hard-working students and colleagues who help me to continually develop by challenging me to keep my imagination alive for teaching and learning ideas.”

Several colleagues, students and alumni offered input and recommendations for Dr. Pinter’s nomination. Here are a few highlights of how they described Tennessee’s 2012 Professor of the Year:
 
“Mike is not just a teacher of the technicalities and intellectual complexities of mathematics; he is somehow able to teach his students about life and living….” —Dr. Pete Giordano, professor of psychology
 
“Dr. Pinter’s class was very cool, and yet still instructive. But Dr. Pinter has had the biggest impact on me outside of the classroom setting with the extra time and support he has given me, and that is how I will remember him. Dr. Pinter is a great teacher but most of all I consider him a great person.” —Corey Schmidt, current Belmont student
 
“As a student of Dr. Pinter’s, what I appreciated most about him was the careful thought and planning he put into each class… He structured his assignments, his projects, his exams and his classroom time around the foundational premise of wanting to pass something on.” —Rebecca McKelvey, 2003 Belmont alumna

Belmont University Provost Dr. Thomas Burns added, “Belmont strives to be a leader among teaching universities. Dr. Mike Pinter’s achievements reflect our deep commitment to our students and their success.  Dr. Pinter is an active scholar, a dedicated mentor and a committed teacher. His selection as Tennessee Professor of the Year recognizes his continued pursuit of excellence in teaching and his service to our students and his colleagues. With this award, and with Dr. Pinter’s role as the Director of the Belmont University Teaching Center, we are both thankful and extremely proud to have him represent Tennessee’s teaching community.”

After growing up on the family dairy farm in Morrilton, Arkansas, Dr. Pinter graduated from Hendrix College (Conway, Ark.). He holds advanced degrees from the University of Mississippi (M.Ed. in College Student Personnel Work) and Vanderbilt University (an M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics). In addition to serving as a Belmont faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science since 1989, Dr. Pinter has held numerous positions within the Belmont community. From 1998-2002, he was associate dean for the School of Sciences, and he served as director of the Teaching Center from 2003-06, a position he now holds again. During 2007-08, he filled the role of interim dean for the College of Arts and Sciences. In addition to regularly teaching general education mathematics courses and the upper-level combinatorics course, he also teaches Analytics: Math Models for students in the Honors Program and a First-Year Seminar course that focuses on issues related to limitations (including disabilities). Dr. Pinter is married to Dr. Robbie Pinter who has been a Belmont English Department faculty member since 1984. Their son Nicholas is a recent Benton Hall Academy graduate.

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Poet Adam Clay Comes to Belmont as Part of New Speaker Series

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On Thursday, Nov. 8, critically acclaimed poet Adam Clay spoke at Belmont University about his most recent publication, A Hotel Lobby at the End of the World, as part of a new annual reader series put on by the Department of English. The series is the brainchild of Dr. Gary McDowell, a poetry and creative writing professor who attended the same graduate program as Clay.

Titled “The Deep Song Reading Series,” the goal of the series is to bring working writers onto Belmont’s campus. “We forget that poetry is still be written today, and people don’t get to hear [it],” said McDowell. McDowell himself has published several poems, and he hopes to encourage students who have an interest in all forms of writing.

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Homework Hotline, Belmont Partner to Tutor Metro Students

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Homework Hotline at Belmont Director Sammy Swor works on the third floor of the library to help grade-school students through free tutoring by phone.

Courtney Covert’s first phone call was a tough one: 29 minutes working through three long-division problems with a fifth grade student whose first language is Spanish; but the junior from Cumming, Ga. said she learned just as much as she taught.

“She taught me a memory trick to remember the order of long division. She remembered ‘dad, mother, sister, brother, rose’ from class, and I helped her understand it meant ‘divide, multiply, subtract, bring down, remainder’ and how to apply it,” Covert said. “She felt accomplished in the end, and it made me so proud because it is like a Good Samaritan gesture since we don’t use names.”

Dozens of calls just like Covert’s ring the third floor of the Lila D. Bunch Library on weeknights. Students in kindergarten through 12th grade call the Homework Hotline at Belmont at (615) 298-6636 between 4 and 8 p.m. for free tutoring on any academic subject.

The Homework Hotline at Belmont ribbon cutting ceremony was Nov. 14.

A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Wednesday, marking the one-month anniversary of the satellite hotline, which is funded by the Frist Foundation and Joe C. Davis Foundation. Mayor Karl Dean, State Rep. Gary Odom, Joe C. Davis Foundation Trustee Bill DeLoache, Frist Foundation President Pete Bird and Metro Nashville Public Schools Chief Operating Officer Fred Carr cut the blue ribbon alongside Belmont Provost Thomas Burns.

The hotline is averaging 85 calls a week. Three in every four calls are about middle-school math, and one out of three calls is from parents or grandparents, said Homework Hotline at Belmont Director Sammy Swor.

“It is very unique for a university to be involved in this. There are only three partnerships like this in the country,” Swor said. “I see the students getting more and more involved because it is already very popular with Metro and Belmont students, and I am worried that our four phone lines may not be enough.”

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Belmont Sponsors ACT Prep for Local Students

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For half of the class in Inman Health Science Building room 341, it is their ninth hour of school. Restless students thumb through their 640-page Cracking the ACT manual.

“Do not be afraid. Do not get discouraged,” said Adjunct Professor Rene Rochester. “This is a practice test, and we need it as a diagnostic to know where we should focus for you.”

Belmont is sponsoring an ACT prep class for high school juniors and seniors, many of whom hope to enroll at the University in the next two years. Rochester leads the two-hour class, and high school students work one-on-one with Belmont students. They meet three times a week until Dec. 8, the day students take the ACT.

“I wanted to be a mentor because I remember when I was applying to go to college and preparing to take the ACT. I just want to share lessons from my situation and extend resources to help these students achieve their greatest potential and all that they want to achieve,” said Robert Wallace, a senior from Nashville majoring in business administration.

Chosen from more than 30 applicants, 22 high school students have enrolled in Belmont’s free ACT prep program. Most of them attend Hillsboro, Big Picture and Martin Luther King Jr. high schools.

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Markopolos Shares Ethics Advice from Madoff Ponzi Scheme

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The man who pursued the biggest Ponzi scheme in history recounted the story and shared advice with Belmont student Wednesday during a convocation hosted by the Edward C. Kennedy Center for Business Ethics.

Harry Markopolos said his study of Bernie Madoff’s phony investment strategy was his first experience with “pure evil.”

“He was a horrible case to be part of, and I don’t have fond memories of it,” he said.

Markopolos, a portfolio manager and chief investment officer for a multi-billion dollar derivatives asset management firm in Boston, Mass., led a four-person team through an eight-and-a-half-year investigation that spanned two continents to understand Madoff’s investment strategy.

“His numbers were too good to be true. He never had a loss and took clients from every good firm,” he said. Markopolos said he realized within five minutes of looking at documents that Madoff was operating a fraud, but it took longer to convince the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Of the $65 billion that funneled through Madoff’s hands, most went to old investors receiving an average 12 percent annual return, 4 percent went to luring new victims through feed funds and private client banks and the remaining 1 percent Madoff kept. Among the red flags Markopolos found were undecipherable accounting statements and similar account numbers at different banks in different countries.

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