32 of Belmont University’s newest students participated in a SERVE event to kick off their Belmont experience at the start of the new spring semester, reports the Office of New Student Programs in the Dean of Students office. Echoing the fall semester’s SERVE event – which stands for Students Engaging and Restoring through Volunteer Experiences – the 32 new Belmont students volunteered at the Nashville Rescue Mission warehouse, where they sorted shoes, organized clothing and provided other help to the charitable organization. SERVE is a foundational experience for new Belmont students.
Belmont Sets Anti-Violence Symposium As Part of MLK Week
An anti-violence symposium focusing on a church-based approach to reducing Nashville’s homicide rate is the cornerstone of a week of events planned for Martin Luther King Jr. Week at Belmont University, honoring the late civil rights leader. With Nashville’s murder rate on the rise, Belmont University has called the Nashville Against Violence Symposium (2-4 p.m., Jan. 19 in the Vince Gill Room at the Curb Event Center) at a critical time, and invited the Rev. Ray Hammond, M.D., founder of the Ten Point Coalition, to lead a conversation about possible ways to address the homicide problem in our city. Hammond’s Ten Point Coalition brought together urban pastors, the Boston mayor’s office, and leaders among the police and judiciary, and the effort was so successful at reducing the city’s skyrocketing murder rate in Boston that that other cities began adopting it.
Music Industry Economic Impact Study Makes Waves
Belmont University’s ground-breaking research quantifying for the first time ever the economic impact of Nashville’s best-known industry has been featured in press coverage locally and beyond. Here is a sampling of the coverage…
Belmont, Chamber Release Music Industry Economic Impact Study
Belmont University and the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce today released a new study showing the total economic impact of the music industry in Nashville is $6.38 billion. The study, The Economic Impact of the Music Industry
In the Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro MSA, is the first ever to assess the economic impact of Music City’s signature industry It was commissioned by the Chamber and its Music Associations Task Force and conducted by the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business at Belmont. The university, located just off Nashville’s famed Music Row, is home to the nationally renowned Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business.
“For the first time in Music City, everyone from policymakers and businesspeople to entertainers and everyday citizens will be able to grasp the true economic value of the music industry,” said Dr. Patrick Raines, dean of the college of business and professor of economics at Belmont University. “Until now, we’ve mainly focused on the entertainment value, which is very, very significant. But supporting statistics are important too, and this economic impact study provides a conservative but very holistic view.”
Wollaber Article Reports on Efforts to Improve Nursing Education Clinical Placements Process
Development of an On-line Clinical Placement Program, an article by Dr. Debra Wollaber, Dean of the School of Nursing at Belmont University, was published in the December-January issue of Healthcare Heartbeat, the newsletter of the Tennessee Center for Nursing. The article looks at the proposed development of a regional centralized on-line clinical placement program to enhance nursing education in middle Tennessee.
Live From Honduras
A nine-person team including students from Belmont University and Middle Tennessee State University is currently traveling in Honduras in support of the efforts of the KidSake Foundation. The team also is there to explore other opportunities for missions and ministries for future teams. You can read almost-real-time reports from the field, from students on the mission trip and from team leader Paul Chenoweth, at Reporting from Honduras.
Adrienne Young is mindful in her music-making
In the music industry, the notion of virtue can seem as anachronistic as a 78 rpm record. Yet, guided by such moral tenets as industry, thrift and sincerity, Adrienne Young is crafting a stellar career without the financial or promotional support of corporate Nashville. … Young was born and raised in a musical family in Florida. In the late 1990s, she moved to Nashville, where she graduated from Belmont University with double majors in Music Business and Spanish. Read the whole Raleigh News & Observer story online here.
Belmont Celebrates Largest Ever December Graduation
Belmont University celebrated its largest-ever winter commencement Friday night at the Curb Event Center with 278 students receiving bachelor’s or graduate degrees, including 222 receiving bachelor’s degrees and 56 receiving graduate degrees.
That follows Belmont’s largest-ever Summer Commencement in August 2005, and its largest-ever Spring Commencement in May 2005. Belmont’s Class of 2005 of 950 graduates includes 682 who received bachelor’s degrees and 268 who received graduate degrees.
Psychedelic pop singer Mark Volman and Belmont University are happy together
The Nashville Scene profiles Mark Volman, a former member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention and of 60’s pop band The Turtles, who now teaches music business courses at Belmont’s Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business.
Glover Named Board Member of the Year
Jodi Glover, Director of Belmont @ Cool Springs, recently received the “Board Member of the Year” award for 2005 from the Cool Springs Chamber Board of Directors. Glover is nearing the end of her three-year term on the board. Glover was the chair of the Women in Business committee for 2005, which proved to be one of the most successful committees established in recent Chamber history. Glover also chaired the programs and events committee in 2003 and served as board secretary in 2004.
