Belmont University’s Curb Event Center will host a portion of the 2004 U.S. Gymnastics Championships 2004 U.S. Gymnastics Championships June 2-5, 2004, which will determine national champions and U.S. national team members, and help choose the athletes who will compete at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials later that month.
The Olympic trials determine the make-up of the U.S. Olympic Team that will compete later this year in Athens, Greece.
The Road to Athens Olympics Runs Through Belmont
Health Records Summit at Belmont
Belmont University’s School of Nursing organized and hosted a “health records summit” involving representatives from the nursing programs at several area universities and from several area hospitals, with a goal of standardizing the collection and distribution of health records from nursing students.
“Within the environments in which we work, student health records are an issue,” said Dr. Debra Wollaber, Dean of the College of Health Sciences and the School of Nursing at Belmont. “Although all of us recognize that the overall purpose of obtaining accurate health records from our students is vital to the safety of our patients, students, faculty and professional colleagues, the process we use to request, gather, compile, analyze and distribute these data is faulty at best.
“To say the least, the process is time-consuming, costly in some cases, redundant, and frustrating for each of us.”
Representatives from Aquinas College, Austin Peay State University, Belmont University, Columbia State Community College, Cumberland University, Middle Tennessee State University, Tennessee State University, Vanderbilt University, and the Tennessee Board of Regents attended, along with representatives from Baptist Hospital, Centennial Medical Center, Maury Regional Medical Center, Saint Thomas Hospital, Summit Medical Center, Southern Hills Medical Center, Vanderbilt Medical Center, VA Medical Center, Williamson Medical Center, the Metro Nashville public health department.
Center for Entrepreneurship Presents Growth by Expecting the Unexpected Seminar
Growth by Expecting the Unexpected, a Business Leadership Strategy Forum, is scheduled for Wednesday, April 28, 2004, from 8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. at Caterpillar Financial Services, located at 2120 West End Avenue. The seminar is sponsored by the Center for Entrepreneurship Women’s Programs. Attendees will hear successful business leadership strategies and insight from women who navigate in today’s changing environment – including analysis of markets for product/service and personal stories of turning challenges into triumphs.
Center for Entrepreneurship Presents Transparent Leadership Seminar
Belmont University’s Center for Entrepreneurship will present “Transparent Leadership,” a Business Leadership Strategy Workshop, on Tuesday, May 11, from 8:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. at Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation. Barbara Pagano, Ed.S., will lead an interactive workshop on the practice of various transparency strategies outlined in her book, Transparency Edge: How Credibility Can Make or Break You in Business.
Belmont University Announces New Director of Alumni Relations
Belmont University has named Deborah (Debbie) Strain Coppinger as Director of Alumni Relations.
A graduate of Auburn University, Coppinger has worked over 14 years in higher education. Coppinger comes to Belmont from Middle Tennessee State University, where she served as Alumni Relations Director and Executive Director of the Middle Tennessee State University National Alumni Association since 1997.
Center for Professional Development Leaders Receive Recognition
Susan Gordon and Angela Carlson have received the designation of Certified Program Planner, or CPP, by the Learning Resources Network (LERN), an international association in lifelong learning. Gordon is the Director of Belmont University’s Center for Professional Development and Carlson is the Program Administrator. The Center for Professional Development was created by Belmont University to offer training in the principles and practices of continuous improvement.
Lloyd Elder to retire from Belmont’s Moench Center
Lloyd Elder will retire as director of the Moench Center for Church Leadership in Belmont University’s School of Religion, effective June 1. The Moench Center, established in 1996, provides resources, conferences and training events to ministers in 26 states.
“Lloyd has helped us maintain a healthy balance between church and academic life at Belmont. He is the classic example of a pastor-theologian,” said Steve Simpler, dean of the School of Religion. “He has distinguished himself as a respected religious leader, yet he doesn’t take himself too seriously. I’ve been with him at Moench Center workshops in rural churches where we had half a dozen people. I’ve been with him when he led worship at large urban churches. He’s the same guy in both places. He’s a genuinely good person who reflects God’s grace.”
Elder joined the School of Religion faculty in August 1991, filling the Paschall Chair for Biblical Studies and Preaching, Elder. He along with Joyce Byrd as associate director established the Moench Center in 1996, to provide leadership skills to ministers. The center was made possible by gifts from the late Ernest J. Moench Sr. and his wife, Anna.
The Hill Is Alive With The Sound of Music
Pat Embry, writing in today’s Tennessean entertainment section, reports on Belmont University being on a hill alive with the sound of music:
From the casual observer driving down Wedgewood Avenue, Belmont University sits atop a well-manicured hill, an ornate mansion fronting a Baptist-affiliated institute of higher education. Among the many things you don’t see: a thriving, eclectic, energetic music and arts community, fed in part by a nationally renowned music business college. Country headliners Trisha Yearwood and Brad Paisley and contemporary Christian stalwart Michael W. Smith are just three entertainment notables spawned from the campus.
Two free concerts this weekend will spotlight to the public both Belmont’s homegrown talent as well as its impressive concert venues.
Innovative Education Course Gets Media Spotlight
Today’s Tennessean (Williamson A.M. zoned section) highlights the Belmont University Education Department and its effort to get student teachers into the classroom sooner, to enhance their learning with real-world experience.
Sen. Alexander Among Speakers at Free Seminar
Belmont to Offer Class on Country Lyrics as Literature This Fall
Six months after Tennessee’s U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander stood on the floor of the U.S. Senate and, in memorializing the late, great, Johnny Cash, asked why so few universities study country music lyrics as literature even though the likes of Johnny Cash “are certainly among the most famous poets in the world,” Belmont University is preparing to launch a course on the Poetics of Country Music.
Sen. Alexander will be among the guest speakers at a special “Belmont After Hours” free seminar on the Poetics of Country Music, hosted by Charlotte Pence, Adjunct Instructor of English. Sen. Alexander is chairman of the Congressional Songwriters
