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Faith at Work In the News

The Tennessean examines the integration of religious faith and the workplace in a story that features a recent half-day seminar at Belmont University. Here’s an excerpt of the story:

Faith-and-work programs date to the 1950s, said Michael J. Naughton, theology professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis and a speaker at the Belmont program. The movement waned from the 1960s through the 1980s then began to pick up again. Naughton, co-author of Managing As If Faith Mattered: Christian Social Principles in the Modern Organization, has long focused on work-faith issues.
Today’s culture ”fosters division between public and private life,” he said. ”Most of us want unity. Most of us don’t want to pass on to our kids two different standards.”

Mark Wins NCAA Scholar of the Year Honor

Belmont University men’s baskbetall player Adam Mark was named male Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the NCAA Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association. Mark, a senior, helped re-write the Belmont and Atlantic Sun Conference record books. He ranks in the top-10 in three statistical categories while scoring nearly 1600 career points to rank 15th in school history. This season, Mark became the first player in A-Sun history to lead the league in field goal percentage three straight seasons. Full story here.

Classroom American Idol? Class Mirrors Music Industry

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

TNRegisters.JPGThe 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

cusicbook01.JPGBelmont 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.