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.
Belmont provides free MTA bus service to students, faculty, staff
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…
Belmont University Named a Top-15 School by U.S. News
Belmont University moved up four spots in the latest annual ranking of America’s best colleges and universities from U.S. News & World Report magazine and is now ranked as one of the 15 best universities in the south in the “Best Universities-Masters” category. Belmont is the highest-ranked Tennessee school in the Master’s category, which includes 130 schools across the south, including 14 in Tennessee. Other top Master’s institutions include such schools as Rollins College, James Madison University, Mercer University, Samford University and The Citadel. The rankings in the America’s Best Colleges 2006 guide are based on several quality indicators including student retention rates, graduation rates, student-faculty ratios and scores on college entrance exams.
Volunteer State Joins Belmont’s Partners in Nursing Consortium
Volunteer State Community College has joined the Partners in Nursing Consortium, a long-term partnership between Belmont University, HCA’s TriStar Health System and other select Tennessee colleges and universities, an initiative created to address the growing shortage of registered nurses in Tennessee.
Summer Commencement Adds 182 New Alumni
Belmont University celebrated its largest-ever summer commencement with the graduation of 182 undergraduate and graduate students on Friday, August 12, at Curb Event Center. The summer 2005 graduating class includes 109 students receiving graduate degrees and 73 students receiving bachelor’s degrees.
Women’s Basketball Has Ninth-Best GPA Among NCAA Div. I Teams
The Belmont women’s basketball team has been recognized for having one of the highest grade point averages (GPA) among NCAA Division I teams by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA). The Bruins concluded the 2004-05 season with a 3.392 team GPA, good for ninth-best in the nation on the WBCA 2005 Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll. Belmont is the only Atlantic Sun Conference representative, the only private college or university and the only university from the Southeastern part of the United States on the list. Read the full story at Bruins Online.
Belmont Student Studies Migrating Armadillos – Nashville City Paper
Lee Griggs, a senior biology major at Belmont University, has been conducting a study on the armadillo in Middle Tennessee since July, asking people who spot them to report on their findings. The study, which will run through December, aims to observe the gradual movement of the non-native animals from West Tennessee toward Davidson County. The mammals are considered pests for many citizens, tearing up topsoil in search of food and shelter. Griggs hopes the project will help shed light in an area that has had very little previous attention. Read the whole story in the Nashville City Paper. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has more information about Grigg’s armadillo research project.
