Belmont, TSU receive HCA grant for nursing – The Tennessean, May 20, 2004. (Second item.)
HCA Foundation Grant Funds Belmont Nursing Testing Initiative
The HCA Foundation has approved a $50,000 grant to Belmont University
Belmont Career Center In the News
Newly minted Belmont University alumnus Harry Allen, who graduated Saturday with a degree in international business management, is featured in a story in the business section of today’s Tennessean newspaper, Job market picture brightens for newest college graduates. Also featured: Patricia Jacobs, director of Belmont’s career center.
Off To Rio
Belmont’s 2004 Sports Evangelism Team left Monday for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Team members include: Back row (l-r): Nick Otis, Jese Snyder, Dan Oliver, Adam Mark, Andrew Preston, Brandon Owen. Front row: Debbie Chenoweth, Vann Patton, Destri Bockey, Jenny Conkle, Betty Wiseman, Hollie Davis, Angel Jones. The photo was taken by Paul Chenoweth, who also is part of the Rio mission trip team. You can follow their progress at The Rio Journal, here.
Spring Commencement Largest Ever at Belmont
The largest graduating class in Belmont University’s history received their diplomas Saturday morning in a commencement celebration in the Curb Event Center on the Belmont campus. Bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees were presented to 457 students, including 363 undergraduate degrees, 94 master’s degrees and 18 doctorates.
In addition, Belmont University President Dr. Robert Fisher presented the Presidential Faculty Achievement Award and University Provost Dan McAlexander presented the Chaney Distinguished Professor Award, two retiring faculty members were honored, and the Class of 2004 presented its Senior Class Gift.
Click here for a graduation photo slide show by university staff photographer Michael Krouskop.
Sturgis Reviews Book on Andy Jackson
Reason magazine has published a review written by Dr. Amy H. Sturgis, who teaches in the Liberal Studies Program at Belmont University, of a new book about Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. Sturgis calls the book “a welcome corrective to the uncritical praise he has received for so long.”
Historians of recent decades also have fallen under Old Hickory’s charismatic spell. Andrew Burstein’s The Passions of Andrew Jackson seeks to reverse this trend and balance our understanding of Jackson, the man and the leader. Burstein, a professor of history at the University of Tulsa, sheds new and harsh light on the Sage of the Hermitage and what he represents to Nashville and the country at large.
Burstein’s work challenges a shelf of canonical texts that currently influence scholarly and popular opinion.
Sturgis holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history with a specialty in Native American studies from Vanderbilt University.
Belmont’s Spring 2004 Graduating Class Is Largest Ever
Belmont University will graduate the largest class in the university’s history, with 457 students set to join the ranks of Belmont University alumni. Commencement is set for 10 a.m., Saturday, May 15, at the Kitty B. West Amphitheatre on the Belmont Campus, or inside the Curb Event Center if it rains.
The record graduating class caps a year in which Belmont’s enrollment set new records in both the fall and spring semesters. Enrollment surged more than 10 percent for the fall semester, for the third year and fifth semester in a row, with more than 3,660 students enrolled. Belmont also set a spring semester enrollment record with 3,477 students enrolled, more than 13 percent higher than the spring semester a year earlier.
Belmont awarded 407 undergraduate and graduate degrees in the spring of 2003, 382 degrees in the spring of 2002, and 376 degrees in the spring of 2001.
Belmont Mission Team Invites You To Follow Mission Trip Online
Belmont University students, faculty and staff participating in a 10-day evangelistic mission trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, later this month will be providing regular updates online at a new weblog created just for the trip.
Union Planters Honors Belmont’s Top Student Entrepreneur
Union Planters Bank has established a $5,000 scholarship award to be given annually to the Outstanding Belmont Student Entrepreneur. The first recipient of the award is Kevin Alexandroni, a business student who also operates a kosher catering business, Sova Catering.
“We’ve made a five-year commitment to the program,” said Ron Samuels, regional president and CEO of the Nashville-based operations of Memphis-based Union Planters Bank, “One of our business objectives is to help small business. At the core of our whole banking business is dealing with small business.
“Entrepreneurial programs such as Dr. Cornwall’s are not prevalent on every campus. We like the fact that Belmont is encouraging students to develop business plans and then implement those plans,” Samuels said. “That’s not common in most business schools.”
Belmont Entrepreneurship Program Gains National Top-10 Ranking
Belmont University is nationally ranked as one of the top ten schools with an Emphasis in Entrepreneurship by Entrepreneur magazine in the May 2004 issue. Belmont’s program is the only Top-10 ranked university entrepreneurship program in Tennessee.
