Three Belmont Univeristy staff members from Administrative Computing and Instructional Technology presented at the 2006 Southeast SCT Education Technology Association conference held in Nashville.
Kevin McClung presented two sessions: “Online Course / Instructor Evaluations in Banner” and “Adirondack’s Housing Module and the Student Web Interface.”
Kelly Moreland Jones presented “Managing Banner 7 Training.”
Claudia Myrick and Jones co-presented “Creating Computer Based Training with Captivate.”
Belmont Staff Present at Technology Conference
Bruins eagerly anticipate Selection Sunday – Nashville City Paper
Minutes after Belmont won the Atlantic Sun Tournament last Saturday, clinching its first ever NCAA Tournament berth, Coach Rick Byrd said the magnitude of the victory hadn’t sunk in yet. Now Byrd has had almost a week to reflect on his Bruins’ history-making win. He’s spent that time doing interviews with various national media outlets, paying close attention to other mid-major conference tournaments and accepting congratulations from all across the country. “I’m grateful for what this win does, in terms of giving attention to Belmont,” Byrd said. “I’ve received so many calls from all over. That’s been the part I had no idea would happen, how many people would call to say, ‘Good job.’”
Now Byrd and his players, who returned from spring break Thursday, turn their attention to the NCAA Tournament Selection Show, which airs Sunday at 5 p.m. on CBS (WTVF-Ch. 5). Belmont will host a viewing party from 4-7 p.m. at the Beaman Student Life Center inside the Curb Event Center. – From today’s Nashville City Paper.
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Women’s Basketball Beat Stetson, Advance to A-Sun Semifinal
Determined to make its own history, the Belmont women’s basketball team knocked off eighth-seeded Stetson University 63-49 Thursday afternoon in the opening quarterfinal round of the 2006 Atlantic Sun Women’s Basketball Championship in Dothan, Ala. The winner of the tournament gets an automatic bid the NCAA tournament. Belmont Bruins News has the game report. Belmont will meet the winner of the #4 Gardner-Webb vs. #5 Campbell game tomorrow night at the Dothan Civic Center at 6 p.m. CST in a semifinal match-up. The game will be broadcast live on Bruins Online.
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Belmont Alumni Receive 12 ACM Award Nominations
Belmont University alumni received a total 12 awards nominations yesterday when the Academy of Country Music Award nominations were announced – including 10 of the 58 nominations given in the major categories that will be part of the televised awards show. Brad Paisley (’95) led all nominees with six nominations, including Top Male Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year for his album Time Well Wasted. The ACM Awards will be broadcast life on Tues., May 23, 2006, at 7 p.m. CST on CBS.
Maddox Foundation Continues Generous Support of Belmont
Most Recent Gifts for Building and Scholarship Funding
The Maddox Foundation, founded by the late Dan and Margaret Maddox, has continued its generous support of Belmont University with two recent gifts totaling $456,880, including a $350,000 installment of the total $5.5 million that the foundation pledged to help build the Maddox Grand Atrium that connects the Beaman Student Life Center and Curb Event Center on the Belmont campus. The foundation also gave Belmont $106,880 to continue funding Belmont’s Presidential Scholars Program and the Rasmussen Foreign Studies Program.
NY Art Critic Discusses “Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art”
Heartney’s Appearance In Connection 100 Artists See God Exhibition at Cheekwood Museum
Belmont University announces an upcoming event in connection with the 100 Artists See God exhibition at Nashville’s Cheekwood Museum of Art. On March 16 at 7 p.m. in the Maddox Grand Atrium, Eleanor Heartney will present a slide lecture entitled “Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art.” Heartney is a New York-based art critic and writer on cultural issues. She is a contributing editor to Art in America and Artpress and has written extensively on contemporary art issues for various publications including Artnews, Art and Auction, The New Art Examiner, the Washington Post and The New York Times.
Belmont to Host Tournament Bracket Selection Party
Belmont University will host a viewing party of the 2006 NCAA Championship Selection Special this Sunday, March 12, from 4:00-7:00pm in the lobby of the Beaman Student Life Center on the Belmont campus. Televisions will be set up throughout the lobby showing CBS Television’s coverage of the NCAA Tournament Selection Special. In addition, there will be an introduction of the Belmont players and coaches, giveaways, refreshments and other festivities that will celebrate Belmont’s first appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
Belmont takes aim at A-Sun basketball sweep – Nashville City Paper
The Nashville City Paper previews the Atlantic Sun Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament, which starts tonight in Dothan, Ala. Belmont’s women’s basketball team won won the A-Sun regular season title outright with a victory over Florida Atlantic and are the top seed in the tournament. They play Stetson University tonight. The winner of the A-Sun tournament gets an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament. Belmont’s star freshman, Alysha Clark, fresh off her clean sweep of the A-Sun Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year awards, said it would be “awesome” for both BU teams to qualify for the NCAA tourney.
The Belmont Stakes – Nashville Scene
If there were any lingering doubts that the old Battle of the Boulevard – a major event back in the days when Belmont and Lipscomb were perennial NAIA powers – was no longer as meaningful as it once was, Saturday’s A-Sun Tournament final should have vaporized them. The two schools, both recent arrivals to NCAA Division I, shared the conference title in the regular season. Then they advanced to the tournament championship. The title game – a taut, overtime thriller that could have had any of about four different endings – is one they’ll talk about for a long time. – Randy Horick, writing in this week’s Nashville Scene.
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Belmont Student to Work on The Daily Show
Belmont University student Joseph Woolley has been selected as one of 25 students to attend the most notable student outreach effort of the International Radio and Television Society’s (IRTS) Summer Fellowship Program. Woolley was chosen from over 800 applicants across the country that applied to attend this program that teaches up-and-coming communicators the realities of the business world through an all-expense-paid fellowship in New York. The fellowship lasts nine weeks and includes practical experience and career-planning advice. After a week-long orientation the students gain full-time “real world” experience at New York-based corporations for eight weeks. Woolley has been selected to study and work at The Daily Show for the duration of the fellowship.
Woolley is also the recipient of the Bridgestone/Firestone Public Affairs Scholarship for the 2005-2006 school year. Nashville-based Bridgestone/Firestone recently established a new $2,500 scholarship at Belmont University. The scholarship is awarded annually to a full-time junior or senior public affairs student who demonstrates academic excellence, campus service and professionalism. The recipient is selected by the Media Studies Department Chair and the Public Relations Director in consultation with officials at Bridgestone/Firestone, and is based on academic criteria, internship experience, references, participation in career-building activities and demonstrated professionalism in the classroom, campus and community.
Woolley will graduate with a bachelor of arts in May 2006 as a journalism major with an emphasis in convergence media. He has frequently represented Belmont University at alumni, prospective student and other community events. His resume includes extensive internship experience with the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center and Freedom Forum Diversity Institute, memberships to multiple public relations and journalism associations and impressive volunteer work during the 2004 presidential campaign.
