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Volker’s Music Drama Premieres July 29 on chatterbird Facebook Page

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Volker’s Music Drama Premieres July 29 on chatterbird Facebook Page

Belmont School of Music Professor Mark Volker’s music drama Body and Soul, After the Plague will premiere virtually on Thursday, July 29, at 7 p.m. by chatterbird, the internationally-renowned, Nashville-based ensemble dedicated to exploring uniquely orchestrated chamber music.

Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the work will highlight the importance of empathy and diversity in humanity’s broader divisions, using the medieval conception of “sin” (self-division) as a transgression against both oneself and the fabric of the human community. It will premiere in Nashville at the Parthenon, and will be produced in collaboration with Dr. Suzanne Edwards, a medieval scholar at Leigh University, and Belmont Photography Professor Dr. Christine Rogers, a visual artist.

Two voices will be interwoven with music and film in a framing of a medieval poem, known as “The Body and Soul Debate.” This is a late fourteenth-century poem in which the body and soul of a recently-deceased person debate which is more responsible for leading them astray in life. Ultimately, it is clear that the debate only serves to teach them about one another, as they have a shared fate – and a shared responsibility in it.

The piece will be streamed via the chatterbird Facebook page free of charge. The Facebook event also offers the opportunity to purchase a commemorative program booklet featuring artwork and background of the project through Eventbrite.

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MoneyGeek Relies on Schenkel for ‘Tips From the Pros’

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MoneyGeek Relies on Schenkel for ‘Tips From the Pros’

Professor of Entrepreneurship Dr. Mark Schenkel was recently featured as an expert in two articles from MoneyGeek.

In “The Best Small Business Credit Cards in 2021,” Schenkel discusses how to find and use the right business credit card. He said using a business card versus a personal card for a small business should be determined on a case-by-case basis, depending on the needs of the card holder and the intended use. Business Cards are more likely to offer rewards for business-specific purchases like online advertising, whereas personal cards offer rewards for things like groceries or streaming subscriptions. Schenkel goes on to discuss ways business owners can appropriately use their credit cards to build credit and stay out of debt, and he talks about capital access, bookkeeping and common cost reward benefits.

In “Best Student Credit Cards of 2021,” Schenkel offers a few suggestions for new credit card users, namely students, who are looking for best ways to use their new credit cards. He emphasizes that students should never rely on credit cards, because until the money spent is earned, it still belongs to someone else. He said credit card holders need to remember they are always being graded on their use and that grade will have an impact on their futures. In discussing how to compare credit cards, Schenkel said, “The bottom line is that the combination of the nature and volume of spending habits will ultimately determine the extent to which card makes the most sense, and there’s no shortcut to doing the math up front.”

Tough, Alumni Collaborate for Music Placed in Film, TV

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Tough, Alumni Collaborate for Music Placed in Film, TV

Audio Engineering Technology Professor Dr. David Tough’s song “Won’t Stop Mobbin’” was featured in Sean Baker’s new movie “Red Rocket” which received top reviews this month at the Cannes Film Festival. The song was written and produced alongside Belmont Curb College alumni Jordan Webb and Rowland Folensbee.

Tough also wrote and produced songs for “Roswell, New Mexico” (CW) and “American Horror Stories” (FX) in July. Both of these placements also featured Belmont alumni.

Curb College Alumni Making News in MusicRow

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Curb College Alumni Making News in MusicRow

MusicRow Magazine has recently spotlighted quite a few Belmont Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business alumni.

The Music Row Award nominees include a list of several Belmont University alumni. Songwriting alumni included Ian Munsick who is nominated for Discovery Artist of the Year and Emily Landis who is nominated for both the Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year and Female Songwriter of the Year.

Music Business alumni included Dann Huff who is nominated for Producer of the Year; Ashley Gorley who is nominated for Male Songwriter of the Year and Song of the Year for “Give Heaven Some Hell,” recorded by Hardy, as well as Nicolle Galyon and Hillary Lindsey who are both nominated for Female Songwriter of the Year.

View a full list of the nominees through MusicRow. MusicRow members will cast their ballots before voting closes July 23 at 5 p.m.

Songwriting Lecturer Thomm Jutz is nominated for Songwriter of the Year in the 2021 IBMA Industry and Momentum Awards. The winners will be announced during IBMA’s World of Bluegrass running September 28-Oct. 2 in Raleigh, N.C. Read more about the nominees at MusicRow.com.

Music Business alumnus Jeff Pardo was recently profiled in MusicRow magazine as he extended his publishing deal with Capitol Christian Music Publishing. Read more about Pardo and his success on MusicRow.

Belmont Receives Grant of Teaching Materials for Chinese Language

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Belmont Receives Grant of Teaching Materials for Chinese Language

Belmont’s programs in the Asian languages of Chinese and Japanese recently received a grant of materials and resources to support the undergraduate teaching program. The award of materials is administered to high schools, colleges and universities in the Middle Tennessee region by the MTSU Center for Asian Studies.

In July, Dr. Qingjun (Joan) Li, associate professor of Asian Studies and Chinese at Belmont, received notification of the award of materials for the teaching and learning of Chinese. “I sincerely want to express Belmont’s deep gratitude to Dr.  Michael Novak, Dr. Guanping Zheng and Professor Yiping Cui,” said Dr. Li.

The resources include more than twenty Chinese films, TV series and movies to support the teaching of Belmont’s courses in Chinese language and culture, as well as Chinese film; over a dozen instructional materials for teaching Chinese through the arts and music; several volumes on Chinese idiom stories and cultural sites and customs; dictionaries to be given directly to students and for classroom use; and sixteen Chinese/English commentaries on literary and philosophical classics. Along with these resources, sixteen Weiqi 围棋 (a.k.a. “Go”) strategy board games of “Chinese chess” first invented in the Zhou Dynasty (c. 900 BCE) were included, which will help enrich the extra-curricular activities of Chinese language students and the student members of the Chinese Cultural Association of Belmont.  

Belmont’s Asian Studies Department also recently received a “teaching materials” grant from the Japan Foundation of the Ministry in May.

Massey College of Business Launches New Supply Chain Management Degree

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Massey College of Business Launches New Supply Chain Management Degree

In a year where everything from shortages of toilet paper and vaccines to computer chips and gasoline have been national breaking news headlines, Belmont University is launching an innovative new program in Supply Chain Management (SCM) within its Jack C. Massey College of Business. The SCM curriculum was developed based on insights garnered from leaders of local and regional Fortune 500 companies, privately-held corporations and nonprofit organizations. Welcoming its inaugural class in Fall 2021, the Supply Chain Management undergraduate major will prepare talent needed in this rapidly growing sector. With Fortune 100 companies like Amazon and Oracle entering the Nashville market, this global field is also expected to experience a significant uptick in demand in Middle Tennessee. 

Dr. Sarah Gardial, dean of Belmont’s Massey College of Business, said, “With Nashville’s growth as a distribution center, we are in a unique position to build an innovative program from the ground up by collaborating with leading professionals in supply chain management. Conversations with these strategic partners influenced every aspect of our curriculum development, and we are confident that aligning our program to their goals will also result in experiential internships and co-op arrangements that set our students—and graduates—apart.” 

In the U.S., 37 percent of all jobs are in the supply chain economy, employing 44 million people in jobs that have higher average wages compared to business-to-consumer positions. Plus, the growing complexity of global business operations has ignited unprecedented demand for skilled supply chain personnel. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the number of SCM jobs will grow by 5+ percent annually over the next decade and 22 percent in the next two years alone.

Belmont’s SCM major focuses on all facets of the business process from planning and forecasting to purchasing, manufacturing, distribution, quality and customer service. Students will learn business fundamentals and analytics in supply chain functions of planning, sourcing, making, delivering and returns. Plus, Supply Chain Management majors at Belmont can focus on one of five tracks within their degree program: Health Care, International, Analytics, Services or create their own General track. As a hallmark to the Belmont program, juniors and seniors will gain meaningful work experience through a required “hands-on” cooperative internship.

“Through partnerships with key companies in Middle Tennessee, we are creating pipelines for future leadership, beginning by placing our students in experiential internships,” said Dr. Dennis Chen, associate dean and associate professor of management and international business. “With three major interstates, the Cumberland River, an international airport and a rail terminal, Middle Tennessee is already a major intermodal player in the nation’s supply chain across a wide variety of industries. The knowledge base in this field has been tested continuously during the pandemic, by necessity, which translates to our program being informed by truly leading-edge insights.” 

A robust network of Middle Tennessee supply chain management leaders has been assembled to help drive the new program and keep its faculty and students connected to the needs of the profession.

Graduates with knowledge of business processes, analytics and operational strategies are increasingly recruited by companies seeking to build supply chain management solutions. Employment opportunities cover a wide range from managing marketing and sales relationships, to operations and logistics positions, to sourcing and new product development. To learn more about Belmont’s program, visit the University’s Supply Chain Management website. 

Wiley Serves on Panel on Conducting, Supporting Research Synthesis

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Wiley Serves on Panel on Conducting, Supporting Research Synthesis

Claire Wiley, associate professor and research and instruction librarian, served as a panelist on a program titled “Conducting and Supporting Research Synthesis: Librarian Roles, Competencies, and Collaborations” which took place during the American Library Association’s Annual Conference last month.

This panel session discussed research synthesis methods, including systematic and scoping reviews, highlighting the role of librarians in supporting researchers as well as how these methods can be used to enhance research in the field of Library and Information Science. Co-panelists on this program included librarians from the U.S. Naval Academy, Colorado State University, Louisiana State University, University of Michigan, University of Calgary and University of Minnesota.

Law Alumnus Byron Joins tpmbLAW as Associate Attorney

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Law Alumnus Byron Joins tpmbLAW as Associate Attorney

Alumnus Matt Byron has joined Taylor, Pigue, Marchetti and Blair PLLC (tpmbLAW) as an associate attorney. Byron earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence in 2019 from Belmont University College of Law and will focus his practice in civil litigation, including insurance defense, creditors’ rights and commercial law.

“Matt achieved at a high level in law school and was involved in so many ways that he provides our clients with exceptional experience and insights,” said Gino Marchetti, Jr., managing member. “Adding him to our firm increases the already high caliber and professionalism of our members, enhancing the scope of services and the counsel that we can provide all of our clients. We are pleased to have him as a part of tpmbLAW.”

While at Belmont Law, Byron competed at the 2019 L. Edward Bryant, Jr. National Health Law Transactional Moot Court Competition in Chicago, Illinois, where his team was awarded the National Championship. He was actively involved with the law school’s Health Law Journal, and served as a legal research assistant to the Director of Belmont Law’s Health Law program, Professor Deborah R. Farringer. He interned for Davidson County Judges Claudia C. Bonnyman and Kelvin D. Jones, and in the Office of General Counsel at TennCare during law school.

Byron, a native of Chicago Illinois, graduated summa cum laude from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts in May 2016, earning a Bachelor of Music where he double majored in Music Business and Management and Bass Performance. He remains active in the Nashville music community.

Founded in 1954, tpmbLAW PLLC engages in general civil practice including civil litigation, corporate and governmental representation and bankruptcy and creditors’ rights. More information is available at www.tpmblaw.com.

Alumna Emily Crowell Promoted To Assistant Executive Director At TSSAA

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Alumna Emily Crowell Promoted To Assistant Executive Director At TSSAA

Emily Crowell, Belmont alumna class of 2011, was recently promoted to the position of Assistant Executive Director at the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association. She will become the fifth assistant executive director to currently serve on the staff and the first female to serve in that position since the association was established nearly 100 years ago.

“Emily has been such a hard worker since she joined the office over ten years ago,” stated Executive Director Bernard Childress. “She has been dedicated to her duties and always willing to take on more and more responsibilities over the years. For that, and many other reasons, she is well deserving of the position of assistant executive director.”

Crowell has been with the TSSAA office since 2010 serving as an administrative assistant prior to becoming the director of championship events for middle and high school tournaments. She will continue to work with all state championships, overseeing the bid process, contracts, event preparation and event management among many other things. She has and will continue to oversee Unified Sports as well as middle and high school eligibility issues.

A Nashville native, Crowell graduated from Harpeth Hall School and graduated cum laude from Vanderbilt University in 2009 with a degree in history and sociology. She received her Masters Degree in Sport Administration from Belmont University in 2011.

Belmont Pharmacy Faculty to Present at AACP 2021

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Belmont Pharmacy Faculty to Present at AACP 2021

Dr. Hope Campbell, associate professor of pharmacy practice at Belmont, will be presenting multiple sessions at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s (AACP) upcoming annual meeting scheduled for July 19-22. As a scholarship lead for the Health Disparities and Cultural Competency Special Interest Group (SIG) within AACP, Dr. Campbell will share along with her research team a session entitled Teaching on Half the Story: The case of systemic racism.

As schools and colleges of pharmacy nationwide grapple with declining enrollment, they are also seeking to diversify their student body. To that end, she will share her sabbatical research on Attracting Diversity: What factors are important to underrepresented minorities when selecting a school of pharmacy?  On Tuesday, July 20 Dr. Campbell and her colleague Dr. Edgar Diaz-Cruz, associate professor of pharmaceutical, social and administrative sciences in the College of Pharmacy, will share the podium with Dr. Lakesha Butler, clinical professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, to present on the timely topic of how to incorporate structural racism in pharmacy curriculum to address health inequities. Her presentation is titled Daring to Teach the Whole Truth: Structural Racism, Structural Competence and Health Inequities. 

Dr. Campbell continues to contribute to the national discourse on race, diversity, equity, COVID-19 and representation in pharmacy at the student, faculty and organizational level. She recently published the following two manuscripts that the president of the American Association of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP), Dr. Jimmi Kolpek, highlighted in her recent letter to constituents, Building a Road to Equitable Representation.

  1. Riley AC, Campbell H, Butler L, et al. Socialized and traumatized: pharmacists, underserved patients, and the COVID-19 vaccine. J Am Pharm Assoc 2021 Jun 1: S1544-3191(21)00202-8. doi:10.1016/j.japh.2021.05.020.
  2. Allen JM, Abdul-Mutakabbir JC, Campbell HE, et al. Ten recommendations to increase Black representation within pharmacy organization leadership. Am J Health Syst Pharm 2021; 78:896-902.
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