Belmont University’s School of Nursing will share $1 million in scholarship aid from HCA Inc. as part of the hospital company’s settlement of a long-running medical billing lawsuit, accroding to today’s Tennessean. Belmont will recieve one third of that sum, with two other Nashville schools’ nursing programs also sharing in the settlement. The Tennessean reports the payments would stem from HCA’s settlement of a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Nashville by several hundred health and welfare funds throughout the country that primarily provide health and retirement coverage to union members. The settlement must be approved by the court.

Belmont University music business professor Don Cusic is quoted in an Associated Press story today about the start of the Music Row Murder trial today in Nashville.

Nashville record producer Don Cook, an adjunct faculty member at Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, says he teaches at Belmont in part to change students’ minds about the legality and ethics of online music trading. Today’s Nashville City Paper has a profile of Cook at work in his Belmont classroom.

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Nashville City Paper puts a story about the upcoming Amy Grant and Vince Gill Christmas Show concert at Belmont University’s Curb Event Center on its front page

The 19-city tour called Simply Christmas with Amy Grant and Vince Gill also will feature comedian Henry Cho and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra. Previous venues of the event include The Ryman Auditorium and Gaylord Entertainment Center. Belmont Director of Communications Greg Pillon said the university hopes to make the event a permanent line-up for its Curb Event Center, at 1900 Belmont Boulevard, which officially opened last week.

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The Tennessean reports that Belmont University has set a new record for enrollment – while the University of Tennessee sees a big drop.