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.
Belmont Completes Evaluation Process for NCAA Division 1 Certification
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.
Quoted: Madeline Bridges
Dr. Madeline Bridges, associate dean for academic studies and professor of music education in the School of Music at Belmont University, and past president of the Tennessee Music Educators Association, is quoted in The Tennessean in this story about music education in the public schools.
Fisher To help Lead Chamber
Belmont University President Dr. Robert Fisher has been elected chairman-elect of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.
Belmont hosts largest-ever exhibition of Frederick Hart sculpture
The single largest public exhibition of the works of famed sculptor Frederick Hart, whose famed relief sculptures grace the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., is coming to Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, for two months this spring. The exhibition, entitled The Creative Spirit: The Sculpture of Frederick Hart, is the central event in a series of arts events sponsored by Belmont’s College of Visual and Performing Arts this semester. The exhibit runs from March 28 through May 28 at the Leu Art Gallery and the Leu Center for the Visual Arts on the Belmont campus. The exhibition is open to the public free of charge.
Cornwall Commentary Published in NBJ
Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of Belmont’s Center for Entrepreneurship, had a commentary published in the March 5 issue of Nashville Business Journal, based on an entry previously published on his weblog.
New Dean Named at Belmont School of Religion
Belmont University has chosen Dr. Darrell Gwaltney, Dean of the MacArthur School of Continuing Education at Palm Beach Atlantic University, as the next dean of Belmont’s School of Religion.
Gwaltney, also an associate professor of religion and literature at the Florida university, will replace Dr. Steven H. Simpler, who is stepping down as dean at the close of the 2003-2004 academic year. Simpler, who has served as the Dean of the School of Religion since 1990, will continue to teach full time in the School of Religion.
“Darrell brings to this position the strong academic and administrative credentials to provide visionary academic leadership for the program,” says Belmont University Provost Dan McAlexander. “He will bring, as well, a genuine enthusiasm for representing the university and the School of Religion to our external stake holders.”
Gwaltney has a bachelor of arts degree from Missouri Baptist College, a master of divinity degree from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, a master of arts degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and a Ph.D from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
“I am delighted to join the Belmont community and I look forward to giving leadership to the School of Religion,” Gwaltney says. “I’m excited about being a part of what God is doing at Belmont.”
In additional to his academic career, Gwaltney has served in a variety of ministry roles since 1980, mostly as pastor. From 1998 through 2002, he was the senior pastor of Northwood Baptist Church in West Palm Beach, Fla. He also was interim dean of PBAU’s School of Ministry for one year.
Gwaltney will begin his duties at Belmont on June 1, 2004.
Belmont Mansion Sets Tourism Record, Extends Hours
Belmont Mansion, the historic mansion on the campus of Belmont University, has increased its operating hours to accommodate growing tourist attendance. The historic home of Adelicia Acklen welcomed a record number of tourists in 2003, up 47 percent over the year before, as the mansion – the largest house museum in Tennessee – celebrated its 150th anniversary year with an array of exhibits and special events.
As a result, Belmont Mansion will now be open 7 days a week year-round with hours Monday
Free Throw
Belmont University student Juawana Patton won a semester’s free tuition by hitting a half-court shot at halftime of the men’s basketball game game Saturday (Feb. 28) between the Belmont Bruins and Georgia State, the last regular season basketball game before the start of the Atlantic Sun Men’s Basketball Tournament.
You can see the video here.
Patton is the first winner in the Tuition Timeout contest, started this year by Belmont University President Dr. Robert Fisher as an incentive to promote student participation at basketball games at the new Curb Event Center.
