Photography professors from Belmont University, Vanderbilt University and Watkins College of Art & Design will present the Society for Photographic Education- South Central Regional Conference October 5-7. Click here to read an article in The Tennessean for more details.
Special Belmont Preseason NIT Tickets on Sale Now, Belmont Season Tickets On Sale for $100
Nashville, Tenn. – The Belmont Department of Athletics and the Curb Event Center announce today that special Belmont ticket packages are on sale now for the 2006 Preseason NIT to be held November 13-14 at Nashville’s Gaylord Entertainment Center. The tickets are on sale through the Curb Event Center box office.
Special Belmont ticket packages range from $43.60-$45.50 for upper level seats, $63.60-$65.50 for club level seats, and $93.60-$95.50 for lower level seats and includes admission to all four games over the two days.
To order your tickets, you can stop by the Curb Event Center box office during regular hours (Monday-Friday: 10:00am-6:00pm, Saturday: 10:00am-4:00pm) or you can call them at (615) 460-8500. Cash, check, and credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express) are accepted.
These ticket packages are only on sale through Monday, October 16th.
In the Nashville bracket, Belmont will open up with UNC-Wilmington on Monday, November 13th at approximately 9:30pm, following the Tennessee-Fordham game. Tuesday’s schedule features the consolation game at 5:00pm, with the championship game following at 8:00pm.
The Belmont Department of Athletics also announces that 2006-2007 basketball season tickets are now on sale. Season tickets can be purchased for $100 each and the package includes a reserved ticket for all 11 men’s home games and doubleheaders and a general admission ticket to ten remaining women’s home games.
The 2006-07 schedule for the Bruins will feature all nine Atlantic Sun schools along with some non-conference opponents as both teams fight for postseason berths. In addition to their conference schedule, the Belmont men will host Fisk in their home opener on November 20 and then will entertain IUPUI on December 4. The BU women will host Texas A&M –Corpus Christi in the season opener on November 18 and entertain three other non-conference foes: Eastern Kentucky, Radford and IPFW as well as their A-Sun schedule.
Season tickets can be purchased by calling (615) 460-BALL or (615) 460-5609. A 2006-07 season ticket brochure can also be downloaded here.
Belmont Cross Country Team Ranked in the Top-10 in this Week’s South Region Polls
Nashville, Tenn. – The Belmont men’s and women’s cross country teams are ranked in the top-10 regionally when the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced its weekly South Region Polls on Monday.
The Belmont men were ranked fourth in this week’s polls, moving up one spot from fifth in the preseason poll. The Bruins are behind Alabama, Florida State, and Florida, but ahead of Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi State.
The BU women’s squad is ranked ninth in this week’s poll. They were ninth in the preseason poll. BU is among three non-SEC/ACC teams in this week’s poll (UAB, Chattanooga). The top-ranked women’s team in the South is Tennessee.
Both of Belmont’s teams are back in action this weekend in national meets. The BU men will compete Friday at the Notre Dame Invitational in Indiana, while the women head to New York for the Iona Meet of Champions.
For a list of all national and regional polls, check out the USTFCCCA website at
http://www.ustfccca.com.
Hollis Delivers Keynote at PRSA Program
Belmont University, in conjunction with the Nashville chapter of Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), hosted “Doing the Right Thing” – a half-day program dedicated to ethics in the PR workplace on Tues., September 26. Dr. Harry Hollis, director of the Center for Business Ethics at Belmont, delivered the keynote address, “Dealing With Professional Ethics Challenges: A Survival Strategy.” Other guest speakers and panelists included Christopher Bauer of Bauer Ethics Seminars, Beth Courtney of Seigenthaler Public Relations, Dan MacDonald from Bridgestone/Firestone, Clint Brewer from the Nashville City Paper and Nancy Amons from WSMV, Nashville’s NBC affiliate.
Art Gish of Christian Peacemaker Teams Speaks at Belmont
The Office of Spiritual Development at Belmont University hosted Art Gish, a member of the organization Christian Peacemaker Teams since 1995, to speak with students, faculty, staff and members of the community about his experiences serving in Israel/Palestine and Iraq and living a theology of nonviolence. Gish is a graduate of Manchester College and Bethany Theological Seminary. He is the author of The New Left and Christian Radicalism, Beyond the Rat Race, Living in Christian Community and Hebron Journal: Stories of Nonviolent Peacemaking.
Belmont and Beyond Kicks Off Semester
Dr. Fisher welcomed students to the annual Belmont and Beyond Kick-Off Event on Wednesday, September 13. Approximately 150 students attended the program, “Journey to Success,” led by Dr. Mike Glenn, Senior Pastor of Brentwood Baptist Church and Belmont Trustee.
Never short on passion or personality, Dr. Glenn explores the Word of God with a contagious fascination. Whether heartfelt or humorous—or sometimes both—his words have the power to reach people. Approachable and inspirational, Mike has dedicated his life to creating a community of open worship, devotion, and Christian values.
The Belmont and Beyond programs are sponsored by the senior class and the Belmont Advisory Group, which includes Career Services, Student Affairs, Student Financial Services, Development and Alumni Relations.
Complete Belmont and Beyond Fall Schedule:
September 20 – Mastering the Graduate School Process, 10 a.m. – 10:50 a.m., Multimedia Hall, PG Convo
September 27 – Community Connections Fair, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Neely Dining Room, PG Convo
September 27 – Graduate and Professional School Fair, 12 noon – 3 p.m., Vanderbilt University, Student Life Center
September 29 – Graduate School Prep Tests, 2 p.m. – 5 p.m., MBC 100, PG Convo
October 4 – Going Global, 10 a.m. – 10:50 a.m., Multimedia Hall, PG Convo
October 9 – Graduation Forum 10 a.m. – 10:50 a.m., Massey Concert Hall (seniors only)
October 18 – Resume: Build It and the Job Will Come, 10 a.m. – 10:50 a.m., Multimedia Hall, AL Convo
October 25 – Interviewing for Success, 10 a.m. – 10:50 a.m., Multimedia Hall, PG Convo
November 1 – Social Smarts: How to Impress Others, 10 a.m. – 10:50 a.m., Multimedia Hall, PG Convo
November 8 – Money Management 101, 10 a.m. – 10:50 a.m., Multimedia Hall, PG Convo
November 15 – Beyond the Belmont Bubble, 10 a.m. – 10:50 a.m., Multimedia Hall, PG Convo
November 29 – Identity Theft, 10 a.m. – 10:50 a.m., Multimedia Hall, AL Convo
Complete Belmont and Beyond Fall Schedule:Deloitte & Touche Establishes First Professor in Accounting at Belmont University
Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, a leading accounting and professional services firm, has established a Professor in Accounting position in the College of Business Administration at Belmont University. This is the first professor in accounting position for Belmont and the second to be sponsored by Deloitte in the state.Dr. Jane Finley, associate professor of accounting and information systems management at Belmont University was installed as the first Deloitte & Touche Professor in Accounting during a reception September 21 at Belmont.
Finley began teaching at Belmont in 1995 after receiving her doctorate from Florida State University. Before her teaching career, Finley worked as an auditor, management accountant and a consultant. She served as CFO of Miami International Airport and previously as a consulting partner at Deloitte & Touche. After arriving at Belmont, Finley was selected the Tennessee Educator of the Year in 2001.
The Deloitte & Touche Professor in Accounting must be an outstanding business educator, particularly active with students and the local professional business community. By holding this position, Finley will be responsible for raising awareness of the accounting profession in the Nashville community and within the business community. Finley will teach at both the undergraduate and graduate levels of the College of Business Administration.
“Jane has been instrumental in two areas at Belmont: increasing the value of our graduates’ diplomas and leading our master’s of accountancy (MACC) program to becoming the second largest in the state, right behind the University of Tennessee,” Pat Raines, dean of the College of Business Administration, said. “She brings extraordinary strengths to our accounting program through her extensive professional experience and achievement in the field.”
“We are very impressed with the quality of professionals coming out of this program, and we applaud Dr. Finley and Belmont for their commitment to excellence and their work to achieve AACBS accreditation,” Tom Aaron, Tennessee Managing Partner for Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. said.
Finley led the efforts at Belmont to gain accreditation for the university’s MACC program through The Association to Accredit Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the highest standard of achievement for business schools, worldwide. Belmont’s MACC program is the smallest on record to be AACSB accredited and the only private university master’s of accountancy program in Tennessee to be recognized by AACSB. To ensure continued accreditation, Finley oversees Belmont accounting faculty publishing and continuing education efforts.
The Deloitte & Touche Professor in Accounting is appointed only at colleges and universities the firm has selected as strategic recruiting schools. Belmont was named a strategic recruiting school this year and currently has 49 graduates serving at Deloitte.
Deloitte & Touche USA LLP partners, directors and professionals from Nashville and around the nation have made the financial commitment necessary to ensure this position will be funded in perpetuity by establishing an endowment for its long term support. The fund has been left open for additional gifts from alumni, friends and supporters of the Belmont accounting program and those wishing to honor the professor in the position.
Belmont University Hosts Launch of Tennessee Center for Nursing Cutting-Edge Web Site
On Thurs., September 21, Belmont University hosted the launch of a new Web site designed to help nursing students access training more easily than ever before. At the kick-off, the Tennessee Center for Nursing (TCN), the Regional Clinical Placement Partnership of Middle Tennessee (RCPP-MT) and Belmont University introduced the Tennessee Online Clinical Placement Program, a cutting-edge plan to increase access to clinical placements for nursing students by integrating the best ideas from nursing leaders across the state. This user-friendly site, which will be accessed at http://www.centerfornursing.org/, connects schools of nursing with clinical training opportunities at health care agencies in Tennessee, eliminating the burdensome task of individual contacts, paper filing and word-of-mouth.
“The new site enhances our ability to put students in direct care experiences and streamlines what has previously been a complicated process,” Dr. Debra Wollaber, dean of Belmont University’s Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences & Nursing, past president of TCN and co-facilitator of the program, says. “It also provides a huge cost and time savings for the students and instructors.”
A year ago, nursing faculty seeking clinical placement opportunities for their students would have spent hours, sometimes weeks, identifying and negotiating clinical care training opportunities, she says. Access to open opportunities was isolated, limited and difficult. The process was just as laborious for clinical facilities trying to accommodate placement requests from schools of nursing.
Plus, students had to complete a tedious orientation process prior to the start of each clinical training rotation. “Now students can complete their orientation online quickly and easily. And JCAHO [Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations] only requires it once a year. The entire process has been greatly improved,” Wollaber said.
After seeing software from the Oregon Center for Nursing (OCN) demonstrated at a nationwide meeting last year, TCN’s Executive Director, Ann Duncan, and Wollaber were inspired to combine the best elements from several health centers online into one central, universal site. According to information from TCN, the site not only allows participating schools to view available clinical placement opportunities instantly online, but will also let site managers view the number of students who will be on their unit on any shift.
The Regional Clinical Placement Partnership of Middle TN piloted the online program last spring with three schools of nursing (Aquinas College, Cumberland University and MTSU) and four hospitals (Sumner, St. Thomas, Middle Tennessee Medical Center and Skyline). In the pilot alone, 43 new placement opportunities were identified—a 22 percent increase in just the first few months. That leaves room for 410 more students at these sites, a 28 percent increase in those that can be accommodated.
The partnership was developed in response to the nation’s rising public health care crisis whose statistics forecast a shortage of close to 808,000 qualified registered nurses (RNs) in the US (a 29 percent shortage) by the year 2020, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services. “With the projected decline in the number of registered nurses in the US and the growing need for quality nursing care, comes a surge in the demand for facilitating the clinical education process,” Wollaber says. “We’re hoping that our program can serve as a model for others around the country to join the effort.”
The National League for Nursing estimates that over 125,000 qualified applicants to RN programs in the US were turned away by nursing schools last year due to a lack of clinical training sites and a shortage of nursing faculty. “We implemented the program to address the shortage and capacity issues,” Dr. Lois Wagner, Associate Director of Research for TCN, also part of the RCPP-MT, says. “The advantages are profound. This is important to Belmont, to our clinical placement partnerships, and to the entire health care community.”
The RCPP-MT is a partnership between schools of nursing, allied health care facilities, and other entities to develop, implement and streamline student clinical placements.
Magruder Publishes Paper
Dr. Robert Magruder, Chair of the Chemistry and Physics department, recently published a paper entitled “Sources of Optical Absorption Between 5.7 and 5.9 eV in Silica Implanted with Si or O” in the Journal of Applied Physics.
Jimmy Davis to speake at Tennessee Alliance for Higher Education
Jimmy Davis, Dean of University College, has been selected as a speaker for the fall meeting of the Tennessee Alliance For Continuing Higher Education. The conference will be held November 8-10 at the Park Vista Hotel in Gatlinburg. The TACHE is the premiere professional organization for advancing and continuing education and lifelong learning in Tennessee.
