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Belmont Partners With Avenue Bank for Course in Entertainment Industry Finance

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This fall Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business (CEMB) will partner with Avenue Bank to offer a unique course for entrepreneurs in the music and entertainment industries. Titled “A Study in Personal Finance & Banking in Relation to the Music Industry,” this course offers an elite group of junior and senior level students an introduction to banking and personal finance, including loan examples and case studies that are music industry specific.

In response to feedback during last year’s Curb College strategic planning process, this new course will address student concerns about managing their own finances as entrepreneurs in the music and entertainment industries. In line with Avenue’s mission to serve the local community and the entertainment industry, the Avenue Bank team developed a curriculum to teach students how to create a budget and understand the basics of managing personal finances, to identify and evaluate financial information necessary to make a loan decisions and to analyze a music industry loan, underwritten with royalties and publishing, among other topics.

Avenue Bank Chairman, President & CEO Ron Samuels said, “It is exciting for Avenue Bank to partner with Belmont University to educate students on personal finance and understanding the role of a bank in the music industry. This class will give students real job-ready knowledge that they will definitely be able to put to use as they embark on careers in music and entertainment.”

Senior Director of Curb College Initiatives Sarah Cates added, “The Curb College values addressing student feedback and is excited to partner with Avenue to help prepare our students for unique challenges and opportunities they’ll face as they maneuver the financial side of the industry.”

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Students Start Online Grocery Store

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Belmont students Jonathan Murrell and Bruno Silva are delivering groceries to students’ dorm rooms through their online care package business that aims to save students time and money.

The friends, both juniors on Belmont’s tennis team, joined Murrell’s brother James to begin MyDormFood.com last fall. The company delivered some 60 packages in the winter, before pulling its website to revamp it.  Now back online this fall, MyDormFood.com hopes parents will use its services to send custom-made care packages to their children and students choose the door-step deliveries over off-campus trips and expensive convenience stores.

(left to right) James Murrell and Belmont students Bruno Silva & Jonathan Murrell are co-owners of MyDormFood.com.

Jonathan said he pitched several ideas for new businesses to Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of Belmont’s Center for Entrepreneurship, but had trouble narrowing his focus until an epiphany with friends.

“One of my friends was getting in the car and eating a PowerBar. She said she paid $3 for it, and I knew it cost half as much at the grocery store. I realized college students were paying super high prices just because of the convenience of having stores on or near campus,” said Jonathan. “MyDormFood is identical to grocery store prices. You will break even using us, but you will save time because you don’t have to leave your dorm room.”

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Parry Elected Group Secretary for Journalism Association

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Pam Parry, chair of the Communication Studies Department, was elected Aug. 11 as secretary of the Small Programs Interest Group of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication at the organization’s annual meeting in St. Louis. She is the immediate past Teaching Co-Chair of the organization, which focuses on the special needs of teaching communications in the context of small programs, such as Belmont’s Corporate Communications Program. Parry became the director of the Corporate Communications Program in fall 2010.

Center for Executive Education Announces Guy Kawasaki as Fall Leadership Breakfast Speaker

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The Center for Executive Education at Belmont University will host venture capitalist and entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki as the keynote speaker during its Fall Leadership Breakfast on Nov. 17 at the Curb Event Center Arena.

Kawasaki, former Apple “chief evangelist,” is the co-founder of Alltop.com, an “online magazine rack” of popular topics on the web, and a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. He has authored 10 books, including The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries and Reality Check.

Kawasaki said, “When I’m in Nashville, I’m planning to speak on ‘Entrepreneurship,’ illustrating the benefits of treating every company as a startup. Hopefully, we can inspire managers to unleash entrepreneurial thinking and help foster the pluck and creativity companies need to stay ahead of the pack.”

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Occupational Therapy Doctoral Student Receives $10,000 Scholarship

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Amber Alverson, an occupational therapy doctoral student (class of 2012), was chosen as a Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities 2011 Long Term Trainee recipient and will be awarded a $10,000 scholarship. Each Long Term Trainee must serve a minimum of 300 hours in activities to promote advocacy, leadership, and development of culturally competent care.

Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities focuses on preparing health professionals to assume leadership roles and develop interdisciplinary team skills, advanced clinical skills and research skills, in order to meet the complex needs of children with neuro-developmental related disabilities. The program is federally funded by the Department of Health and Human Services through the Maternal and Child Health Bureau LEND Grant. It is administered through Vanderbilt University’s Kennedy Center which collaborates with Belmont University (faculty advisor Lorry Liotta-Kleinfeld), Meharry Medical College, Tennessee State University, Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities, Tennessee Disabilities Coalition and the University of Tennessee, Nashville campus.

New Students ‘Become Belmont’ Through Welcome Week

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Numerous volunteers assisted new students during the 2010 Move In Days.

Campus has sprung back into action with incoming freshmen and transfer students beginning their Welcome Week.

New students moved into residence halls Aug. 19. During the five days before classes begin, incoming freshmen and transfer students worked in Tower Teams with upperclassmen guidance to learn “to explore, embrace and engage all that Belmont has to offer.”

“It is that idea of exploring, engaging and embracing the University,” said Director of New Student and Parent Programs Ben Lion. “Hey, now you are a Bruin and you are really part of this community. The charge going out of Welcome Week is how can they engage in their community and make the most of their Belmont experience.”

Belmont University began Welcome Week in the 1990s to acclimate new students to their collegiate experiences. This year’s incoming class of approximately 1,185 freshmen is the largest class in Belmont’s history. Some 136 upperclassmen have dedicated a semester to help freshmen and transfers transition into the university through their roles as Tower Team leaders.

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Alumna Receives ‘Vocalist of the Year’ Honors in Europe

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Belmont alumna Ashley Robertson (’06) has been named European Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year for the second time. Robertson, a Canada native, resides in Nashville but tours internationally, performing most recently in Australia.

Robertson’s first award was won in 2005 when she was still an undergraduate at Belmont. She is working on her third album to follow up the success of her previous release Woman in the White Dress. For more information about Ashley and her music, click here.

Anderson Publishes Critique of Nietzsche Biography

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Belmont Professor of Philosophy Mark Anderson was recently published in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies. Anderson’s article, “Telling the Same Story of Nietzsche’s Life” contends that author Julian Young misappropriated material in his 2010 book Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography.

Anderson goes on to support his argument by juxtaposing Young’s words alongside Curtis Cate’s words in his 2005 book titled Friedrich Nietzsche. Anderson argues Young paraphrased and borrowed text without quotation or proper attribution; he cites several examples and demonstrates by citing all other possible sources that the only explanation for the many similarities between the two books is that Young relied on Cate without properly citing his source. Anderson’s full article can be read here.

Forbes’ 2011 Best Colleges List Includes Belmont

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Forbes Magazine recently included Belmont University in the rankings for its 2011 Best Colleges List.

These rankings of 650 schools – the top 20 percent of all undergraduate institutions nationwide – are exclusively prepared for Forbes by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP), a Washington D.C. think tank.

Belmont was listed at No. 523 overall as well  No. 370 in private colleges and No. 150 in the South.

Faculty Member Performs In China

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Associated Professor Anthony Belfiglio performed with faculty members from the Beijing Academy of Contemporary Music while in China this summer. Belfiglio, who specializes in piano, also met with the academy’s Jazz Program Director to discuss ideas about curriculum and sat with local jazz musicians at East Shore Jazz Cafe. View photos.

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