Billy Prince, recording studio manager at Belmont University, is quoted in an Associated Press story about universities with student-run record labels. Belmont University owns Acklen Records, a student-run label that provides real-world experience to students in its Music Business program. Belmont is one of very, very few universities with such in-house record labels.
Medical Paper Quotes Nursing Dean
Dr. Debra Wollaber, Dean of the College of Health Sciences adn the School of Nursing at Belmont University, is interviewed in the August 2003 issue of Nashville Medical News about people making a mid-career switch to nursing. The story, which appeared on page 13 of the paper, is available online in a PDF file here when the August 2003 issue of the paper is posted online. In the story, Wollaber comments:
“I was just talking with a student that had a career in the music business, and she’d decided that nursing is the way to go.
“I would be lying if I said that salary is not an issue. Nursing has always been a profession where you can find employment anytime and anywhere. When there is an economic downturn, our enrollment does tend to go up.”
AD Strickland Profiled in Nashville City Paper
Nashville City Paper profiles Belmont University Athletic Director Mike Strickland, who is guiding Belmont’s transition to NCAA Division 1 competition.
Strickland has faced challenge after challenge since arriving at Belmont from Murray State, where he had served as a Division I AD for nine years. He knew none of the coaches at Belmont when he asked them to consider the sacrifices they would need to make as the transition out of NAIA proceeded. He knew the task wouldn
Photos of Curb/Maddox/Beaman Complex Progress
Construction is in its final phases on the Curb Event Center, Maddox Grand Atrium and Beaman Student Life Center, the grand new complex anchoring the southwest corner of the Belmont University campus. Here are some photographs taken by Belmont University staff photographer Michael Krouskop:
Grammy-nominated Russian band to play at art exhibition opening
NASHVILLE, August 6, 2003 – Bering Strait, a Grammy-nominated country/bluegrass band originally from Obninsk, Russia, will perform at the opening of the Russian Impressionism art exhibition at Belmont University’s Leu Gallery Sept. 4.
The Russian Impressionism exhibit features several paintings from the collection of Ray Johnson, a noted American art collector and founder of The Museum of Russian Art, in Bloomington, Minn., who also played a role in bringing the members of Bering Strait to Nashville several years ago. The band’s self-titled first album was released on the Universal South label in January. The band was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Country Instrumental Performance category
Women’s Leadership Workshop at Center for Entrepreneurship
Best-selling author Carol Grace Anderson will speak at the Women’s Leadership Workshop, hosted by the Center for Entreneurship’s Women’s Programs at Belmont University.
Tennis athletes honored for academics
BPSports.net spotlights the academic achievements of Belmont University athletes with a story about Belmont men
Dr. Bennett’s Op-Ed on Media Consolidation Published
Dr. Sybril Bennett, executive director of Belmont University’s New Century Journalism program, has a commentary published in the journal Black Issues in Higher Education regarding the Federal Communication Commission’s recent decision to allow for greater consolidation in ownership of media properties. An excerpt:
At the corporate level, partnerships, mergers and/or cross-ownership could mean increased newspaper circulation and revenues. The trend may also boost enrollment at journalism schools. Many are revamping their programs to address the need for students who can successfully perform in converged newsrooms. It all sounds great but a concern should be that the number of Black students choosing to major in journalism has been declining for years. At the same time, many veteran Black journalists are leaving news organizations in quantifiable numbers. In other words, the pipeline is losing water from both ends and the timing couldn
New Business Dean Tennessean’s Top Business Story
The Tennessean introduces Nashville to the new dean of Belmont University’s College of Business Administration, Dr. J. Patrick Raines.
Raines is particularly interested in bringing to Belmont aspects of the latter program, which created a specialized MBA for employees of large Richmond-based corporations, such as Capital One, the large credit card company. Besides taking traditional graduate business courses, students’ curriculum was supplemented with more in-depth studies on topics considered key to their employer, such as financial management in the case of Capital One or supply chain management for a manufacturing firm.
”I think there is a real opportunity with the corporate environment that exists in Nashville to customize an MBA program for a single corporation,” Raines said in a telephone interview late last week.
Raines also said he is impressed with the size and scope of Nashville’s entertainment and health-care industries and hopes to further Belmont’s efforts to offer specialized studies in those areas. He also sees opportunities to enhance the school’s programs for full-time executives.
Belmont President Robert Fisher said Raines was a ”perfect match” because he shares the university’s interest in fostering entrepreneurship and business innovation, a legacy he said started with Jack Massey, the legendary businessman whose financial support helped Belmont launch its graduate business program in 1986.
You can read the press release here.
Raines Named New Dean of Belmont College of Business
NASHVILLE, August 4, 2003 – Dr. J. Patrick Raines has been named the new Dean of the Belmont University College of Business Administration, which includes Belmont’s undergraduate business program and the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business Administration.
Raines is currently a professor of economics and holder of the F. Carlyle Tiller Chair in Business at the Robins School of Business at the private University of Richmond, where he has taught since 1982. Dr. Raines holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D, all in economics, from the University of Alabama.
Belmont University President Dr. Robert Fisher says Dr. Raines brings to Belmont a wealth of academic experience and credentials, and an entrepreneurial edge, making him the right person to lead Belmont’s undergraduate and graduate business programs.
“His credentials speak for themselves,” says Fisher. “And his leadership of the University of Richmond’s innovative Corporate MBA program is the kind of leadership that will take Belmont’s Massey Graduate School of Business to the next level. We are delighted to have Dr. Raines join the Belmont family.”
At the University of Richmond, Dr. Raines directed an innovative Corporate MBA program that provides an accelerated weekend MBA education with a customized curriculum for employees of such companies as Capital One. Raines explains that Capital One had input into developing customized curriculum for its employees, to better fit the needs of the employees and Capital One.
Dr. Raines says he sees much opportunity in Nashville for similar programs at Belmont.
“It’s an exciting opportunity for me to be a part of an institution that is continually striving to improve the quality of education it provides to students, its facilities, and the quality of scholar educators it is attracting to campus,” Raines said. “My wife Judy and I are ecstatic about moving to Nashville and becoming an integral part of the community.
Dr. Raines’ first book, Economists On the Stock Market: Speculative Theories of Stock Market Fluctuations, co-authored with University of Alabama economist Dr. Charles Leathers, was published in the spring of 2000
