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Tsunami Relief Concert Brings Stars to Belmont, Raises $50,000 for WorldVision
Country, gospel and contemporary Christian artists came together Wednesday night at Belmont University to perform a benefit concert for victims of the Asian tsunami. Christian pop star Michael W. Smith and country singer Kathy Mattea co-hosted the event, An Evening for Restoration: Music City Comes Together for Tsunami Relief, and also performed. Other artists who performed included Steven Curtis Chapman, Diamond Rio, CeCe Winans, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Cropper, the Oak Ridge Boys, Kirk Whalum, tobyMac and Diverse City, Crystal Gayle, MercyMe, Lee Greenwood, Jaci Velasquez, The Whites, The Crabb Family, Dr. Bobby Jones, Michael Martin Murphey, Micah Stampley, Billy Walker and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra. Vince Gill made a surprise appearance as the guitarist for the house band.
Tsunami relief benefits from collection of talent – The Tennessean
In the wake of tragedy, Nashville responded last night with its most famed resource: music. The sometimes-polarized worlds of Christian, country and classical music joined together at Belmont University’s sold-out Massey Performing Arts Center for a multiact concert billed as “An Evening of Restoration: Music City Comes Together For Tsunami Relief.” – The Tennessean.
Additional coverage:
Christian and Country artists hold benefit concert for tsunami relief – ChristianPost.com
Belmont Students Get A Little Closer to Wall Street – The Tennessean
Highlights of the financial information laboratory, believed to be the first installed at a Tennessee college or university campus, include a 12-foot-long electronic stock ticker, 9-foot data wall, 61-inch plasma screen monitor and 14 workstations equipped with state-of-the-art financial analysis software. The room also comes with its own Bloomberg financial data terminal and television tuned to CNBC.
Tsunami benefit at Belmont tonight – Nashville City Paper
Belmont University will team with Nashville’s music industry at 7 p.m. today for a tsunami relief benefit concert at the school’s Massey Performing Arts Center.
Belmont becomes mini-Wall Street – Nashville City Paper
Ticker tape is running today for the first time at Belmont University as New York’s Wall Street is recreated in a state-of-the-art classroom setting for students studying investment and portfolio management. The trading room, which is a first for a college or university in Tennessee, was made possible through a donation from loyal Belmont benefactors R. Clayton McWhorter and Stuart McWhorter, Belmont officials said.
Similar facilities are used to teach trading, portfolio construction and risk management at schools including Clemson University in South Carolina and Bentley College west of the Boston area, according to Assistant Finance Professor Dr. Joe Smolira of Belmont’s College of Business Administration. For the whole Nashville City Paper story, click here.
Other press coverage:
Belmont opens financial trading room – Nashville Business Journal online
Belmont opens electronic securities trading floor – NashvillePost.com (subscription only – click here to see image.)
Belmont Opens State’s First University-Based Electronic Financial Trading Room
The first and only electronic financial trading room located on a Tennessee college or university campus opened today at Belmont University bringing Wall Street to Belmont Boulevard for students learning investment and portfolio management.
The financial information laboratory is equipped with the latest technology including a nine-foot data wall, a 60-inch plasma monitor and a 12-foot ticker tape lighting up the back wall. There are 14 workstations with which to access and analyze financial data, plus a Bloomberg station with licensed Bloomberg hardware and software, for a total of 15 workstations. Each is designated as a Seat on the Trading Floor of the Belmont Exchange. Students began taking classes in the lab on Tuesday, January 25 at 9:30 a.m.
NBJ Praises Belmont’s Entrepreneurial Focus
The Nashville Business Journal praises Belmont University in an editorial in its Jan. 21, 2005, edition, for an ongoing effort, spearheaded by the Center for Entrepreneurship, to infuse entrepreneurial education throughout all of the university’s academic departments.
“Teaching entrepreneurial strategies to students in a business track is certainly nothing new, at Belmont or other universities. What is a departure is training students in other disciplines how to think like entrepreneurs,” says the Nashville Business Journal. “More students are entering college with the idea of forming their own enterprises. Whether they ever start their own businesses or just work in someone else’s, any training they receive that sharpens their critical thinking skills will only benefit them, their businesses – and all of us.”
Colleges take entrepreneurship to the student masses – Nashville Business Journal
Belmont University is riding the crest of an educational wave with a program to infuse entrepreneurial education into all departments. “Belmont recognized it was important to our curriculum; that programs could benefit from entrepreneurship education,” says Jeff Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont.
Business programs, both undergraduate and graduate, have been teaching entrepreneurship for years. What places Belmont on the cutting edge is its plan for students majoring in theater, English or political science to learn the same entrepreneurial skills as business majors.
The story is not on the Nashville Business Journal’s website. Click here to see a readable image of the story.
Belmont stores sell students on entrepreneurship – The Tennessean
Feedback is the newest of three student-run retail stores at [Belmont] University, which has made entrepreneurship a major focus. All three stores have prime real estate on the ground floor of Belmont’s Curb Event Center, which is along busy Belmont Boulevard. The university set aside space for the student retail operations when it built the center in 2003. The other two stores, a CD shop called Reverb Media and an art gallery/graphic design studio called Blvd., opened last spring and have been slowly but surely making names for themselves on campus and, to some extent, in the neighborhood.
