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Nashville’s Newest Star-to-Be Has Belmont Connection

The Lancaster News, in Lancaster, S.C., profiles hometown girl and Belmont University graduate Julie Roberts, perhaps the next major recording star on Nashville’s famed Music Row.

Mercury Records is expecting big things from Lancaster native Julie Roberts, who is getting major Nashville buzz as her first single,

Papers Note New Business Program

The Nashville City Paper reported today on the launch of the new undergraduate program in International Business at Belmont’s Massey College of Business Administration. The Tennessean also ran a “business brief” on the program today.

Belmont Project Up for Two Dove Awards

inbrightmansions.JPGIn Bright Mansions, an album featuring the famed Fisk Jubilee Singers that was produced by Belmont University’s student-run Acklen Records label, has been nominated for a Dove Award in two categories.
The album, in the running for a Grammy

Learning Business in the Real World

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The Tennessean carries a nice story in its Davidson A.M. section today about the impending opening of two student-run businesses in the ground-floor retail space in the Curb Event Center complex fronting Belmont Boulevard. The stories are not online, you can view the clips: Page 1. Page 2.

Quoted: Don Cusic

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Donald F. Cusic, professor of music business at Belmont University, is quoted in a Kansas City Star story about celebrity sex scandals.

Belmont Enrollment Growth Tops in Region

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Belmont University’s spring enrollment growth leads all colleges in universities in the Middle Tennessee region, according to data compiled and reported by The Tennessean. Belmont’s spring semester enrollment of 3,477 students was 13.22 percent higher than the school’s spring 2003 enrollment, a growth of 406 students. That’s a far larger growth rate than second-place Trevecca Nazarene University, which added 8-0 students, a 4.48 percent growth rate for the small private school. It’s also must faster growth than Middle Tennessee State University, which added 614 students, a 3.13 percent growth rate for the large public university.

Campaign Coverage

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Sen. John Kerry’s campaign stop Saturday on the campus of Belmont University generated a flurry of media coverage, including stories in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Detroit News, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, the San Francisco Chronicle, and various other papers carrying stories from the AP, Reuters and Gannett news services.
Here’s coverage in the Belmont Vision, including a photo slideshow.

Sen. Alexander to Speak at Launch of International Business Program at Massey

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lamarsmall.JPGSen. Lamar Alexander will speak at Belmont University Feb. 17 in honor of the launch of the new International Business program at Belmont’s prestigious Jack C. Massey College of Business Administration.
The new International Business program at the Massey College of Business Administration requires a combination of foreign language proficiency, study abroad, cultural knowledge and international business courses in marketing, finance, economics, accounting and law.
Alexander will speak at noon in the Board Room of the Massey Business Center on the significance to Tennessee and Tennesseans of higher education and international trade, to an audience including members of the Belmont University language, arts & sciences and business faculty, undergraduate and graduate business students, Belmont University President Dr. Robert Fisher, local representatives of the International Business Council of the Chamber of Commerce and the media.

Russian Professor to Speak at Belmont

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Oleg Naumenko, a professor at Moscow State University, will speak at Belmont University on Tuesday, Feb. 10. Naumenko will discuss the current political and economic situation in Russia – timely given Russia’s recent political turmoil and experience with terrorist attacks. He also will share his insights into the Russian culture. Time and location: 4 p.m., Feb. 10, in room 204 of the Massey Business Center. The media is invited.