An innovative class at Belmont University is taking on a bit of the look of American Idol as students work to select, develop and promote two musical artists who will be featured in a live showcase April 22 at the Curb Caf
Music Business Student Quoted in AP Story
Belmont University student David Cook, president of the Belmont University Copyright Society and a student in the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, is quoted in an Associated Press story about the troubled state of the music industry economy for Nashville’s songwriters. The story ran in USA Today and numerous other publications and online media, including the Miami Herald, FOX News, the Rapid City Journal, New York Newsday, the Montgomery County Record, the Chicago Tribune, MLive.com, the Orlando Sentinel, the New Orleans Times Picayune, tje Tuscaloosa News, the Hartford Courant, MSNBC.com, the Wyoming News, the Kansas City Star, the Biloxi Sun Herald, the Springfield, Ohio, News Sun, the Porterville, Calif., Recorder, the Jackson, Tenn., Sun, the Seattle Post Intelligencer, and the San Jose Mercury News.
Speech and Debate Team Defends Title at NCCFI
The Belmont Speech and Debate team successfully defended its Division II national title at the NCCFI national tournament held in March at Cedarville University. The NCCFI Is the National Christian College Forensics Invitational.
Cusic Book In the News
Nashville City Paper interviews Belmont University music business professor Don Cusic about his new book, Baseball and Country Music. Cusic signs copies of the book at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Nashville Tuesday night.
Belmont Has Hart
The Tennessean previews the Frederick Hart sculpture exhibition opening Sunday, March 28, at Belmont University. The exhibition, The Creative Spirit: The Sculpture of Frederick Hart runs through May 28.
Business Ethics Seminar in the News
The Tennessee Register previews the upcoming half-day seminar, Integrating Faith & Work: Building Your Business on a Solid Moral Foundation, sponsored by the Belmont University Center for Entrepreneurship and the Center for Business Ethics, scheduled for April 1.
Cusic Book Signing Scheduled
Belmont University music business professor Dr. Don Cusic will sign copies of his new book, Baseball and Country Music, at an appearance at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Nashville at 6 p.m., March 30.
Belmont Completes Evaluation Process for NCAA Division 1 Certification
Belmont University has completed the evaluation process for NCAA Division 1 certification. The NCAA Peer review team was on campus February 16 through February 19, 2004 for Belmont’s evaluation visit. The following team members were assigned to evaluate the institution.
Mr. David Hager, Vice Provost, Old Dominion University
Ms. Susan Anfin, Compliance Coordinator, Winthrop University
Dr. Allision Freedman, Associate Athletics Director, University of the Pacific (California)
Mr. Bill McGillis, Director of Athletics, University of Evansville
Dr. Michael J. Ross, Prof. of Psychology, Saint Louis University
The results of the visit will be announced after the NCAA Division 1 Committee on Athletics Certification renders its decision.
Click here to download Belmont’s NCAA Division 1 Athletics Certification Self Study in a 254-page PDF file.
reverbmedia Opens Tonight
Student-run Business a Unique Learning Lab for Business Students
reverbmedia, a student-created, student-run store that specializes in selling (and buying) used CDs, used DVDs and recorded music from current Belmont students and Belmont alumni, will open tonight in Curb Event Center retail space along Belmont Boulevard. The store, the second student-operated business in the Curb Event Center, is operated by the Belmont University Entrepreneurship Club. It began as the brainchild of several Entrepreneurship Club members who wanted to capitalize on the university’s musical atmosphere.
The Grand Opening celebration runs from 5 to 9 p.m., Friday, March 19th and will include free refreshments and live entertainment.
reverbmedia provides Belmont University students studying business an excellent real-world learning lab to gain practical business experience. Members of the Entrepreneurship Club have ample opportunities through reverbmedia to participate in every part of operating a business, including marketing, publicity, accounting, human resources, operations management, sales, information systems, strategic management, design and logistics.
Journalism Outreach Program Makes News
An outreach program by Belmont University’s journalism program is the subject of a story in Friday’s edition of The Tennessean’s Davison A.M. section. Here’s an excerpt.
Belmont University and the National Association of Black Journalists have teamed up with Maplewood High School to provide students contact with minority journalists. Members of the local chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, along with Belmont journalism faculty, will meet regularly with aspiring journalism students to talk about their careers. The project is aimed at increasing the number of minority news anchors, reporters and editors in newsrooms, a number that organizers say is not on part with the number of minorities in the population at large.
The story isn’t online but you can view the clipping here.
