The Tennessean checks in on Belmont alum, American Idol finalist and Curb Records recording artist Kimberley Locke. A native of Gallatin, Tennessee, Locke earned a business degree at Belmont and was planning to attend law school, but then auditioned for the second season of the popular television talent show. She finished third behind Clay Aiken and eventual winner Ruben Studdard, and signed with Curb Records.
Tennessean Interviews Kimberley Locke
Cusic Interviewed By Japan TV
Dr. Don Cusic, author and professor of music business at the Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University, taped an interview today with a television crew from Japan for a television special to air in Japan on “The History of Gospel Music.” Cusic and Belmont University recently hosted the 21st Annual International Country Music Conference.
Published: Professor Pam Parry
Published: Dr. Jeff Cornwall
Entrepreneurship Program Helps Launch Successful Multimedia Business
Belmont University’s entrepreneurship program, recently ranked a top-10 program nationally by Entrepreneur magazine, has helped the successful launch of a new multimedia company to serve Nashville’s entertainment industry.
Submerge Media is a full-service media company that will provide multimedia services to the greater Nashville area. With specialties in the areas of audio and video production, web and graphic design, and interactive media, Submerge Media aims to be an all-inclusive media provider for its clients offering all services an in-house media department would provide for a larger organization.
Quoted: Dr. Jeff Cornwall at Forbes.com
Forbes.com quotes Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont, in an article published online today, How to Be Your Own Boss, about the nuts and bolts of starting a business.
Massey MBA Alum Quoted on Women Entrepreneurs
A recent graduate of Belmont’s MBA program is quoted about how the MBA program at the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business prepared her the business world, in a story in the Nashville Business Journal on a study that finds women entrepreneurs are often aggressive risk-takers.
Booming Belmont Works With Neigbors on Land Acquisition
Belmont University’s efforts to work with the neighborhood as it aquires neighboring properties for future growth is described by Nashville Business Journal in a story in this week’s edition, which reports that Belmont has spent $3.4 million to buy 16 neighboring properties in the past two years.
Belmont Praised in Congressional Record
Sen. Lamar Alexander praised Belmont University for its new literature course, The Poetics of Country Music, in remarks delivered in the U.S. Senate May 3, as reproduced here in the Congressional Record.
