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Payne, Interior Design Major, Completes Elite Princess Cruises World Headquarters Internship

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Payne, Interior Design Major, Completes Elite Princess Cruises World Headquarters Internship

Jessica Payne, a senior interior design major in Belmont’s O’More School of Design*, recently completed an intensive three-month internship program at Princess Cruises, an award-winning destination leader in worldwide cruise vacations.

Payne worked in the Interior Design & Operations Department for the shared services group supporting Princess Cruises, Holland America Line and Seabourn, all part of the world’s leading cruise brands of Carnival Corporation, and was responsible for selections, specifications and coordination of design packages for fleet wide initiatives. The internship utilized Payne’s design knowledge and cost savings, budgeting and organization techniques. Other responsibilities included supporting ongoing efforts to broaden the supplier base and innovating efficient ways to develop proposals and presentations.

Jessica Payne in front of Princess Cruise Headquarters during her internship this summer.“My time as an interior design intern with Princess Cruises has set the path for my future career,” she said. “Not only do I now have a strong core knowledge of hospitality design, but being in Los Angeles has given me the foundation to grow my network and meet a tremendous amount of renowned design professionals. My assignments have allowed me to apply my technical based knowledge to my creative ideas in order to achieve functional designs. Working in the cruise industry, one of the largest growing industries, and with industry leader Princess Cruises has been an invaluable learning opportunity.”

Princess Cruises Internship Program is a 10-week, paid, project-structured summer learning experience available to undergraduate and graduate students of four-year degree programs from a multitude of disciplines including marketing, public relations, hotel operations, food & beverage, engineering (marine/technical), finance entertainment and more. The program takes place at Princess Cruises world headquarters campus located in Santa Clarita, California and is known for its challenging projects with a full complement of enrichment activities designed to give the participating students a professional work experience.

“Students are given assignments that require collaborating and interacting with professionals at all levels of the organization from specialists and managers to executive vice presidents,” said Jeanne Amey, director, shoreside talent acquisition for the shared services group. “We hire interns to take on projects with a strategic focus and a requirement to determine specific measurable results. Our management teams incorporate the results of the best intern work to guide the future planning of our business.”

Payne was one of 49 interns selected from a competitive pool of over 1,000 applicants. This year’s intern class included representatives from 34 elite institutions. Internship opportunities are promoted between November and December each year for the following calendar year.

*Belmont’s O’More School of Design has received preliminary approval from the University’s regional accreditor (SACSCOC), and full approval is anticipated by the end of the year.*

Belmont University Draws Record 8,318 Students for Fall 2018

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Belmont University Draws Record 8,318 Students for Fall 2018

University experiences 65 percent enrollment increase in past decade;
Class of 2022 boasts highest average ACT to date

Belmont University kicked off classes for its fall 2018 semester yesterday with a record-breaking enrollment number as the University welcomed 8,318 students to campus, nearly triple the enrollment in 2000 and marking a 65 percent increase in the last decade alone. This marks Belmont’s 18th consecutive year of record enrollment. Belmont’s sustained growth is being accomplished through traditional, residential education, as the University also marked the opening of its largest residence hall to date on Saturday. As part of its Vision 2020 strategic plan, Belmont aims to enroll 8,888 students by the Fall 2020 semester, providing more students than ever the opportunity to embrace the Belmont mission to “engage and transform the world.”

Belmont President Dr. Bob Fisher said, “August is always an incredible month at Belmont, as each year our upperclassmen create a Move In weekend experience like no other, cheering their new peers as they and their families first arrive to campus for the fall semester. I cheer along with them as we are honored that more and more students choose Belmont for their education, and that the quality of each incoming class continues to rise, this year seeing an average ACT composite score of 27. Our students are selecting Belmont because they want to be challenged by rigorous academics, taught by dedicated faculty and transformed by an education that will empower them to make a difference in their communities. And for the 74 percent coming from outside of Tennessee, they want to live in Nashville.”

Applications for freshman admissions for Fall 2018 saw a significant increase of 5.3 percent and resulted in an accomplished incoming freshman class of 1,634 students, the largest in University history. Belmont also continues to be among the top destinations for transfer students as 494 transfers, also a record, joined the campus this fall. The University’s graduate schools, which offer more than 25 master’s degrees and five doctoral programs, attracted 658 new students for 2018-19 new academic year.

This year’s incoming freshman class hails from 48 states and represents nine foreign countries, with 74 percent of the class originating from outside of Tennessee. As a group, Belmont’s Class of 2022 scored an average of 27 on the ACT and held an average high school GPA of 3.7. The new students made their presence known throughout Nashville Tuesday afternoon as more than 2,100 freshmen and transfers participated in the annual SERVE event, which allows students to engage in community service at nonprofit sites around the city.

Belmont’s student body currently consists of 6,730 undergraduate students and 1,588 pursuing graduate/professional paths.

Associate Provost and Dean of Enrollment David Mee added, “Each new admission cycle brings promise for continuing enrollment growth at Belmont. And Fall 2018 was no exception.  Belmont continues to attract talented, thoughtful and civically-engaged students from every state and all corners of the globe. Growth at Belmont, first and foremost, represents the potential the University has to impact society through the great contributions our alumni make each and every day.”

Giordano Published in Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Journal with Students

Hope Buckner
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Giordano Published in Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science Journal with Students

Peter Giordano HeadshotDr. Pete Giordano, Psychological Science, has published an article with two psychology majors, Eason Taylor and Hannah Branthwaite, titled “Personality Process-Structure Duality: Reply to Two Commentaries.” The article appears in Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, a journal that features articles that cover theoretical integration of ideas, epistemology of social and biological sciences and original empirical research articles of general scientific value.

You can access an abstract of the article here.

Belmont Sends Thousands of New Bruins into Nashville for Service

Hope Buckner
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Belmont Sends Thousands of New Bruins into Nashville for Service

The beginning of a new school year looks different each year. It can include moving into a new dorm room, wayfinding through campus or scoping out the best spots for future study sessions. For more than 2,000 Belmont University freshmen and transfer students, this year’s new school year included all these things and a special opportunity to serve their community.

Group of Belmont students and Nashville General Hospital employees pose for group photo before working on service projects in the hospital.
Students volunteer at Nashville General Hospital at Meharry 

In the days leading up to the start of classes, Belmont freshman and transfer students are immersed into university life through the Towering Traditions orientation program including an afternoon traveling to 26 locations across the greater Nashville area for service. The event, called SERVE, allows students to immerse themselves in their new hometown.

After a send-off from University President Dr. Bob Fisher, Nashville’s Mayor David Briley was welcomed to the stage to inspire students as they went off into the community to complete various service projects. Loaded on buses, students visited Nashville General Hospital at Meharry, Sweet Sleep at Nashville First Baptist Church and Rise Against Hunger, among others, and spent the afternoon painting buildings and sidewalks, cleaning up outdoor areas and building beds.

Freshman audio engineering technology major Eli German was busy building 25 bed frames with a group of 15 other student volunteers. The bed frames were constructed for Sweet Sleep to give to children coming out of homelessness in the Middle Tennessee area. “We got a warm welcome from Nashville First Baptist Church and Sweet Sleep, a mini construction lesson and went right to work,” German said. “It is nice to know how we are affecting the community and feels good to have a direct impact. We get to see our work go right back in to the Middle Tennessee area.”

Belmont students use tools to build wooden bed frame for Sweet Sleep at Nashville First Baptist Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
Freshman German (center) and other Belmont students build bed frames for Sweet Sleep at Nashville First Baptist Church

Service is a key part of Belmont’s values and is why SERVE continues to be an integral part of students first experiences on campus. Throughout their time across the city, students were encouraged to be engage with each other and understand the impact this one afternoon has on Nashville’s community.

SERVE doesn’t just stop at Belmont’s newest undergraduate students, new graduate students also take part in the day of service. Belmont University’s graduate nursing students spent their afternoon at Project C.U.R.E completing a variety of tasks. Project C.U.R.E. sends medical supplies around the world to communities in need. Belmont graduate students worked hard to break down 26 pallets of medical supplies, pack and label $27,500 worth of infusion products and pack equipment for ultrasound machines and fetal monitors, among a variety of other tasks. Graduate students were also able to hear from a Project C.U.R.E. needs assessment representative to understand how their work would affect different communities.

Included in the graduate SERVE participation was first year physical therapy students. The 49 students and two faculty spent the day at Feed the Children where they helped pack boxes of food for people in need in the area. “This was a great opportunity for the students to get to know one another on their first day at Belmont and to be able start their time at Belmont with serving their new community,” said Physical Therapy Department Chair Dr. Renee Brown.

Freshman and fellow SERVE participant Mallory Wallace was enthusiastic about getting the chance to immerse herself into Nashville’s community in this special way. “Most other schools don’t do this, so it’s nice to see that there is such an emphasis on community at Belmont,” said Wallace. “I’m excited to be part of a school that has this focus and can help me find places to volunteer.”

Belmont University Announces Newest Building Project, World-Class Performing Arts Center

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Belmont University Announces Newest Building Project, World-Class Performing Arts Center

1,700-seat multi-purpose facility to be the ‘finest music performance hall on any college campus in the world’

Committed to providing students with access to stages that rival some of the world’s finest, Belmont University announced today a state-of-the-art performing arts center on Belmont Boulevard. The Belmont University Performing Arts Center will house a 1,700-seat multi-purpose theatre, a grand lobby and two contiguous event spaces that can hold more than 900 guests when combined with the lobby. The venue, which will be located between Bernard and Compton Avenue on Belmont Boulevard, is slated to open fall 2021.

Belmont President Dr. Bob Fisher said, “Our goal is to build the finest music performance hall on any college campus in the world, and I couldn’t be more pleased. I have dreamed of the creation of this facility since I first came to Belmont in 2000. Along with the Massey Performing Arts Center, Troutt Theater and McAfee Concert Hall, the addition of this venue completes our campus’s performance facilities, creating the most extensive suite of venues of any other institution of higher education.”

Board Chairman Marty Dickens said, “Our students are just the best, and they deserve the very best.”

Outfitted for both acoustic and amplified sound, the Center’s Performance Hall, referred to as an instrument of its own kind, will adapt to the performances it hosts. Classical concerts, operas, musical theatre performances, theatre productions, dance recitals, commercial showcases and more will be held in the Center’s Performance Hall to accommodate the diverse musical interests and talents of Belmont students. The facility will include a full fly space, wing space, orchestra pit, two forestage lifts, a trap room under the stage and television broadcast capabilities.

In addition to its on-stage features, the facility will have a warm-up room for dance or choral use, various sized dressing rooms, a green room, a scene dock, a loading dock and a green roof to assist with water quality filtration, among other sustainable components as the project will pursue LEED certification.

Belmont Provost Dr. Thomas Burns said, “As we prepare the next generation of musical greats, we must ensure that our students are exposed to some of the world’s best venues. With the creation of this impressive complex, our students will have access to one of the finest. This new performing arts center will serve as an extraordinary training ground, both onstage and backstage, for students in our Colleges of Music & Performing Arts and Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business.”

Nashville-based R.C. Mathews is the contractor, and ESa is the architect for the project.

Alumnus Carlton Anderson Signs with Morris Higham Management

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Alumnus Carlton Anderson Signs with Morris Higham Management

Singer/songwirter and Belmont University graduate Carlton Anderson recently signed with Morris Higham Management for global representation. This announcement comes following the release of his debut single “Drop Everything.”

“I have worked my whole life to be in a position like this and to have years of hard work be noticed by such a prestigious company means more than I can I say,” Anderson says. “I’ve been told a long time that my music is ‘too country’ so I’m truly grateful to have a team at Morris Higham that understands who I am as a person and supports my visions as an artist and songwriter.”

“Carlton is one of the rare young artists who understands why country music matters, and he makes it as compelling and as current as anything on radio,” said Clint Higham, president of Morris Higham Management. “When you find an artist who’s so grounded in the roots, who can sing, write and connect with fans across ages, places and everything that country music now contains, that’s like finding a unicorn.”

Higham added, “When you find an artist like that, and they have a work ethic that matches the team at Morris Higham, that’s when special things happen. Everyone here believes in his music, and there’s no young artist I’ve seen like this.”

A graduate of Belmont University’s Curb College music business program, Anderson joined ASCAP and later signed a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music. Morris Higham Management represents Kenny Chesney, Ryan Griffin, Brandon Lay, Old Dominion, Michael Ray, and Walker County. Higham is also an alumnus of Belmont University.

—Story by Claire Anderson, Class of 2019

Occupational Therapy Students Participate in Vanderbilt Consortium LEND

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Occupational Therapy Students Participate in Vanderbilt Consortium LEND

Third year Occupational Therapy Doctoral (OTD) students Taylor Johnson Jones and Mariah Horton were accepted as long-term trainees in the Vanderbilt Consortium LEND. Chair of the School of Occupational Therapy and LEND Core Faculty Member Dr. Lorry Liotta-Kleinfeld will serve as the student’s faulty advisor.

Both Johnson and Horton successfully completed the OTD LEND Independent Study class and engaged in a number of service, clinical and research activities in pediatrics. As Long-term Trainees, they will receive a stipend of $7,500 contingent on their successful participation in 300 hours or more of LEND activities. These activities focus on foundational concepts in the field of neurodevelopmental disabilities including the clinical, education, ethical, public health, legal, public policy and social implications of specific neurodevelopmental disabilities.

At its core, the LEND traineeship is interprofessional in nature and students will participate in leadership, advocacy and training activities with families and individuals from diverse professions. They will assist in developing and leading an interprofessional workshop this fall and next spring on topics pertaining to best-practice, current issues in pediatric practice, as well as patient- and family-centered care.

Belmont Faculty Participate in Annual Lilly Conference

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Belmont Faculty Participate in Annual Lilly Conference

A group of interdisciplinary Belmont faculty recently attended and presented at the Innovative Strategies to Advance Student Learning Conference, hosted by the Lilly Foundation, recently held in Asheville, North Carolina.

Presenting faculty members included:

  • Associate Professor of Management and International Business Dr. Dennis Chen, “Learning by Playing II: Continuous Improvement Through Feedback”
  • Director of the Teaching Center and Professor of Mathematics Dr. Mike Pinter, “Uncertainty: A Vehicle for Student and Faculty Development
  • College of Pharmacy Faculty Fellow in Drug Information Jenny Garland*, “Students’ Perception of TBL in a Biomedical Literature Evaluation Course”
  • Director of Experiential Education in the College of Pharmacy Dr. Angela Clauson and Associate Professor in the College of Pharmacy Dr. Angela Hagan, “Educational Gaming: THe Design of a Pharmacy ESCAPE Game”

In addition to these presenters, Belmont’s attending group included Teaching Center Office Manager Nanci Alsup, Assistant Professor of Music Business Dr. Amy Smith, Assistant Professor of Management Dr. Eduardo Lopez, Clinical Sciences Fellow for Aegis Sciences Corporation Stephanie Manley*, Assistant Professor of English Dr. Heather Finch*, Professor of English Dr. Robbie Pinter and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Dr. Phil Johnston.

The Lilly Conferences have long been an attractive setting for faculty to focus on teaching and learning principles and to convene in a small group to share ideas and demonstrate useful skills in teaching. Belmont has been active in these conferences for many years.

Names with an asterisk are Lilly Fellows

Hinton Receives Lucy Blair Service Award

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Hinton Receives Lucy Blair Service Award

Dr. Cathy Hinton receives her award at the conference this summer. Dr. Cathy Hinton, professor in the School of Physical Therapy, was presented with the Lucy Blair Service Award this summer at the American Physical Therapy Association NEXT annual conference. The Lucy Blair Service Award honors physical therapist members or physical therapist life members whose contributions to APTA are of exceptional quality.

Belmont Launches New Office of Leadership Development

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Belmont Launches New Office of Leadership Development

Office begins the year with BOLD Moves Student Leadership Training

Aptly named BOLD, the newly-created Belmont University Office of Leadership Development officially launched last week with its first student leadership programming — the BOLD Moves Leadership Challenge. The experience, which began when students arrived to campus last week, exists to provide a comprehensive student leadership development experience that encourages participants to clarify their individual and group values and align those values with their actions. Through this experience, students began to understand and model what leadership looks like at Belmont — through the lens of service.

BOLD Moves Leadership Challenge at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, August 16, 2018.

The first few days of their time on campus was spent in the classroom as 17 staff and faculty from 10 offices across campus facilitated interactive learning sessions with participants. Covering the basics of leadership, behaviors effective leaders portray, the importance of forming well-developed group values and more, these sessions allowed participants the opportunity to understand their own leadership style before putting it into action.

But it wasn’t all business. After their training, the BOLD Moves crew, which included 65 students in total, took to the city to experience some of what Nashville has to offer. After spending the morning on Friday at Top Golf, the group headed downtown for a round of laser tag before coming back to campus to prep for their busy weekend. Demonstrating the true meaning of service, the students completed their BOLD experience by assisting Residence Life with moving 2,200 upperclassmen and 900 freshmen into their dorms across campus. Now that the week is over, participants can continue in BOLD’s ongoing leadership development experience, Bruin Lead.

BOLD Moves Leadership Challenge at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, August 16, 2018.

Assistant Dean and Director of Leadership Development Dr. Adrianne Archie said the program was created directly from a student desire for expanded leadership development opportunities across campus. “Service is the Belmont way,” Archie said. “What better way to get students plugged into leadership development from the very beginning of the semester than to collectively serve 1,700 hours by assisting upperclassmen in move-in, an activity that demonstrates a true leader’s ability to model the way.”

BOLD Moves participant Nicole Pesce said the opportunity to start the year with this experience was incredibly meaningful as she further developed her leadership skills and her faith. “BOLD created an environment that was 100% engaging,” she said. “It has helped me grow in my faith in Jesus Christ and allowed me to see students begin as strangers and become a transformed body of friends and leaders with servant’s hearts. Everyone has a place and a purpose in BOLD.”

Though student leadership opportunities have always been available across campus through a variety of programming, BOLD captures all leadership training that Belmont provides and houses it in a central location. Additionally, it allows students to engage with intentional leadership development programming all throughout their college career. And it’s not just reserved for those who hold a traditional leadership position.

BOLD at Top Golf at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, August 17, 2018.In fact, BOLD Moves was created and reserved for students who don’t hold leadership positions across campus but were interested in getting involved. “Leadership development is everyone’s business,” Archie said. “BOLD Moves set the tone for all students to understand that everyone can learn and practice leadership — it’s not reserved for those with a certain title. All our students can be better in BOLD!”

For Archie, the opportunity for students to experience real, authentic leadership opportunities while in college is what prepares them for life after graduation. “These experiences are transformative,” she said. “In so many ways. I look forward to seeing students changed by the process as they understand that they, too, are leaders. I look forward to watching God transform each participant for his purposes on our campus and in our community. This is only the beginning — the BOLD beginning.”

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