Starting this week, Belmont students and employees can ride free on city buses. … Parking was one of several reasons Belmont decided to launch the program with MTA, university officials said. While Vanderbilt University started a similar program for its employees last summer, Belmont is the first Nashville university to pay for its students’ rides. Read all about it in today’s Tennessean, online here.
Enrollment Tops 4,000 Two Years Ahead of Goal
Campus-wide celebration planned
Belmont University has set another school record for fall enrollment, achieving a milestone goal two years early as more than 4,300 students have enrolled for the fall semester. Five years ago, with enrollment less than 3,000 students, Belmont’s administration and Board of Trustees set a goal of increasing enrollment to 4,000 by the fall of 2007. The final total for the fall 2005 semester shows that 4,319 students have enrolled at Belmont for the fall semester, 378 more than in the fall of 2004, an increase of 9.6 percent.
Leu Art Gallery Sets Winter Exhibition
Belmont University’s Leu Art Gallery has announced its next exhibition, Myth and Meaning: Recent Paintings by Greg Decker, which begins in early October at the gallery. Decker is a figurative painter, producing oil paintings which are often ‘mythical’ in content, as well as portraits and still-lifes.
Rebirth on the Row – Nashville City Paper
Belmont, MTA offer free bus service – Nashville City Paper
Belmont University and the Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) reached a partnership agreement Tuesday that will provide free bus transportation to and from the university for students, faculty and staff. The Nashville City Paper story is online here.
Belmont provides free MTA bus service to students, faculty, staff
Bus transportation offered as perk in employee benefits package
Belmont University students and staff can now leave their cars, trucks, and SUVs at home and rely on the Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority for their rides to and from the university thanks to a new partnership agreement between the university and MTA announced today. Belmont is the first university in Nashville to offer free bus service to its students.
Hundreds of Freshman Help in Community Service to Start New Year
Approximately 650 incoming Belmont University freshmen volunteered to help in service to the Nashville community Monday as part of “Welcome Week” for the new school year at the Nashville university. Students worked on a variety of community service projects ranging from working in the warehouse at the Nashville Rescue Mission, packing food at Feed the Children, doing building repair work at Preston Taylor Ministries and landscaping at the Martha O’Bryan Center. Each year, Belmont invites incoming freshmen to participate in community service as part of a week-long slate of activities introducing them to life as a Belmont student.
Citizen Journalists Go Mainstream – Broadcasting & Cable
Belmont University’s Paul Chenoweth is featured prominently in a story in the current edition of Broadcasting & Cable magazine about grassroots video journalism. Chenoweth, web developer in Belmont’s information technology department, also a graduate student working toward his M.Ed degree with a focus on learning communities and online communities.
Belmont Volunteers For Disaster Drill – The Tennessean
Metro officials are spending $500,000 on a massive emergency-preparedness drill next month that requires 2,500 volunteers — but only 100 have signed up. … Metro contacted the Boy Scouts, Belmont University, the nonprofit Hands on Nashville and some local churches to help with recruitment. Emergency management officials said they’ve been promised about 380 more volunteers who just haven’t officially registered. … More than 200 people who do plan to be there are students and clinical instructors in nursing and therapy at Belmont, said Debra Wollaber, dean of Belmont’s Gordon Inman College of Health Sciences and Nursing. The college faculty will schedule that Friday, Sept. 23, as a clinical day and give students credit for participating, she said. Read the whole story in today’s Tennessean online here.
Move-In Day 2005
Saturday was move-in day for the fall semester at Belmont University, a day of celebration as faculty, staff and administration members help move students into the residence halls. Here is a selection of photos of the day’s activities, by Belmont University staff photographer Michael Krouskop…
