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Bullington Elected to Board of Directors, Education Committee for the National Association of Schools of Art, Design

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judy bullingtonDr. Judy Bullington, professor of art history and chair of the Department of Art, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). She will serve a 3-year term on the board in addition to being Belmont’s official institutional representative to NASAD, through which all art and design degree programs are currently accredited.

Bullington was also nominated and elected to serve on the education committee of the College Art Association. She started on the committee at the 104th Annual CAA Conference held in Washington D. C. in early February. The education committee promotes the visual arts as an essential aspect of human activity and as a creative endeavor and subject of cultural and historical inquiry and critical appreciative activity. It encourages excellence in teaching at all levels. Its focus is on pedagogy at the higher education level in art history, visual culture, studio, aesthetics and art criticism and on the interface between teaching and learning research and practice.

 

Hogan Named President Elect of Tennessee Association of Colleges of Teacher Education

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mark_hoganBelmont’s Education Department Chair Dr. Mark Hogan was elected to the Executive Board of the Tennessee Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (TACTE) on Feb. 19. At TACTE’s spring 2016 meeting, Hogan was elected President-Elect of the organization. Hogan will serve two years as president-elect (2016-2018) and then as president (2018-2020).

Hogan said representing the teacher education program providers in Tennessee will allow him to build on his past experiences and training. “I’m honored and excited about this role of leadership in educator preparation at the state level, here in Tennessee. Both my work in advocacy and teacher preparation has shown me the need for leaders in teacher education to be engaged with state and federal legislators.”

TACTE is the professional association of all higher education institutions in Tennessee offering licensure and certification programs for educators. TACTE is the state level affiliate of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Part of Hogan’s responsibilities will be serving as the government liaison for TACTE, in addition to fulfilling the responsibilities of the president-elect.

Hogan served as president of the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges of Teacher Education from 2012-2014. Hogan began his current position as chair of the Belmont Teacher Education Program in January 2014.

Belmont Is ‘In It to END It’

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Belmont Is ‘In It to END It’

Senator Bob Corker visited Belmont University Monday morning to kick-off the END It Campaign, a national movement to fight for freedom for all by bringing awareness, prevention, rescue and restoration to people suffering from modern day slavery. Committed to uniting their voices as freedom fighters, Corker has partnered with the International Justice Mission (IJM), A21, Hope for Freedom and other organizations to represent the 27 million men, women and children trapped in slavery around the world.

Belmont’s IJM President Breanna Adams joined Corker in the kick-off event and spoke on what Belmont and Vanderbilt’s chapters are doing to raise awareness. For Adams, it all comes down to prevention and action. “Our generation will continue to advocate and raise funds until all people are free,” she said.

end slavery-108The END It team was joined by Christian artist and founder of Freedom for Hope Natalie Grant who shared how she got involved with the movement and encouraged all attendees to be ‘in it to END it.’ “You don’t have to be qualified to be involved,” Grant said. “You just have to have a heart beating inside you.”

Margie Quin, an agent with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, went on to address the crowd and share information on what the state is doing to further END it. Despite the great work of TBI and its investigators, Quin said it is this generation who has the power to change the future. “Winds of change are blowing in Tennessee,” she said. “Let your generation be the generation to END it.”

Belmont students, faculty and staff in attendance participated in the event by wearing t-shirts, snapping photos to share and marking their hands with the END It movement’s signature red X. For Corker, Belmont was an obvious choice for the day’s kick-off location as the university “…is where it seems so many things begin.”

Speakers encouraged attendees to observe Feb. 25 as “Shine a Light On Slavery Day” by wearing a red X on their hand throughout the day and engage with community members by educating them on the movement when they ask about it. For more information on this day and the END It movement, click here.

Tennessee World Affairs Council Hosts WorldQuest Competition at Belmont

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Tennessee World Affairs Council Hosts WorldQuest Competition at Belmont

Students from Nashville’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Magnet High School recently won the WorldQuest Tennessee State Competition, hosted at Belmont University, and earned a trip to the World Affairs Council of America’s national competition in Washington, D.C. After a 100-question, three and a half hour contest, the students secured the title.

The competition, organized by the Tennessee World Affairs Council, pitted MLK seniors Regan Goodrich and Rachel Townson, sophomore Kevin Gomez and Freshman Jocelyn Hartley against other students. Team coach and veteran teacher Catherine Kelly said, “The WorldQuest competition was a wonderful experience.” She credited Lipscomb University senior Elizabeth Ashwood, co-coach, with thoroughly preparing the team.

Tennessee World Affairs Council President Patrick Ryan said, “The Martin Luther King High School students were ready and did a great job against very tough competition. This is the first year we had out of state teams compete in our match. The councils in their area didn’t offer WorldQuest and it was easy for us to welcome them. Our objective is to encourage as many people as possible, regardless of state lines, to try to better understand the important issues and challenges America faces in the world.”

The student teams and audience were welcomed to Belmont by Dr. Jeffrey Overby, director of the Center for International Business and a Council board member. He noted the importance of a well-rounded understanding of foreign affairs for success in academic and professional endeavors. Overby told the students, “I’m glad you’re here at Belmont today for this competition, and I applaud your hard work and interest in international affairs.”

WorldQuest is a quiz bowl-like flagship program of the Tennessee World Affairs Council, a Nashville based nonprofit educational association that develops programs to educate and inspire people to understand global issues. The competition runs year-round with teams engaging in reviewing study guides, practice matches and keeping up with current international events. The ten rounds of questions came from categories includinh NATO, Asia Matters for America, International Trade and Finance, Privacy in the Digital Age, Food Security and current events, among others.

The winners of competitions from among the 96 independent councils around the country will meet in a match organized by the World Affairs Councils on America at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on April 23 to determine a national champion. Tennessee’s winners from MLK will be escorted to Washington by Tennessee Council staff to embark on many events including think tanks, visits to Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, NGOs and others where they will gain insight into foreign affairs.

Ambassador Charles Bowers, a member of the World Affairs Council board and a judge at Sunday’s WorldQuest match said, “The fact that we had 40 students from three states come out on a Sunday afternoon for a program that encourages global affairs awareness was wonderful and bodes well for America.”

A team from the Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology who traveled from Atlanta took second place honors in the match and a team from the Randolph School in Huntsville placed third. Other schools in the competition included Montgomery Bell Academy, which had taken the most recent two Tennessee WorldQuest titles, The McCallie School in Chattanooga, and Centennial High School in Franklin.

The World Affairs Council’s programs are open to all schools and community members.

Belmont Journalism Students Earn Top Marks at Southeast Journalism Conference

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Belmont Journalism Students Earn Top Marks at Southeast Journalism Conference

Thirteen Belmont journalism students recently competed in the Southeast Journalism Conference in Clarksville, Tennessee and placed second overall among 45 colleges and universities from eight states.

Belmont was the highest ranked Tennessee school and individuals students placed in their respective categories. The”Best of the South” competition, which looks at work published November 2014 to November 2014, saw many Belmont Vision staffers with wins including:

  • Andrew Hunt – first, press photography
  • Samuel Cowan – second, sports writing
  • Emily Proud – sixth, TV news reporter
  • Will Hadden – seventh, news reporting
  • Riley Wallace – eighth, news reporting

The Vision also earned second for best television video for its sports program Bruin Blitz and ranked fourth for best college website. Editors for the Vision during the competition months were Courtney Martinez, Kirk Bado and Riley Wallace. Dorren Robinson is the faculty adviser for the Vision.

In onsite competitions, students went head-to-head with students from other schools in real-time competitions and bought back six awards including:

  • Sam Cowan – first, sports writing
  • Nina Kim – first, news, photography
  • Rebecca Arnold – first, copy editing
  • Brooklyn Penn – first, current events
  • Emily Proud – second, television anchoring
  • Andrew Hunt – second, sports photography

The combined awards earned Belmont the second place spot in the championship, overall. Belmont journalism students placed second at last year’s competition in Atlanta, as well.

Webb Published in International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Review

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nathan_webDr. Nathan Webb, assistant professor of communication studies, recently published an academic article in International HETL Review, a publication of the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (IHETLA).

His article, “Walking a Fine Line: How GTAs Manage Their Private Information with Students,” examines how graduate teaching assistants manage professional boundaries in the classroom through self-disclosure. The aim of IHETLA is to “bring together higher education professionals and thought leaders from around the world to dialogue, network, and collaborate on issues relevant to teaching and learning in higher education.”

Belmont Speech and Debate Team Partners with League of Women Voters

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Belmont Speech and Debate Team Partners with League of Women Voters

The League of Women Voters of Murfreesboro/Rutherford County hosted a model debate Tuesday, Feb. 16 at Murfeesboro City Hall between Belmont and Middle Tennessee State University’s Speech and Debate teams. The event explored contemporary voting issues.

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League of Women Voters of Murfreesboro and Rutherford County Co-President Kory Wells said, “These are complex issues which the debaters argued in a very informative, orderly and respectful way. They undoubtedly left the audience with much to think about, not only in regards to these issues, but also in terms of how this debate compares to the recent ones we’ve been seeing in the presidential primaries.”

The debate teams took on the following questions:

1) Should the electoral college be abolished?

2) Should spending by corporations to influence the outcome of an election be limited?

3) Should factors other than population be considered in the process of legislative redistricting?

The students covered topics including Super PACs and their role in presidential elections and political redistricting and the continued role of the electoral college. Event attendees included college students, community members and elementary age students.

Alumna LaFrance Hired as NASA Flight Controller

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Kayla LaFranceKayla LaFrance, 2009 engineering physics and math alumna, recently started what she calls her dream job at NASA as she trains to become an ISO (Inventory and Storage Officer) flight controller for mission control. LaFrance is located at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

But this dream job won’t stop her from pursuing higher goals. LaFrance said she is looking forward to obtaining her Ph.D. and contributing to the design of future mission operations concepts for Mars missions. On her LinkedIn page LaFrance said, “I live my dream job every day at Johnson Space Center. After 18 years of dreaming and dedication, I now have the joy of working with manned space flight.”

Before heading to NASA, LaFrance competed in the TBS reality competition show “King of the Nerds” and won the title. “So yes,” LaFrance said via LinkedIn. “I am King of the Nerds!”

 

Psi Chi Honor Society Inducts New Members

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Psi Chi Honor Society Inducts New Members

Belmont’s Psi Chi Chapter, the international honors society in psychology, recently held its 25th Induction Ceremony and welcomed 12 new members into the organization. Assistant Professor of Psychology Dr. Lauren Gilbert served as the event’s keynote speaker.

Inducted members included Chelsey Deloney, Bianca Flury, Kathryn Graeff, Alexandria Gumucio, Marie Holzer, Amber Lowe, Brittany McGavic, Allison Ramsey, Abigail Smith, Krystal Smith, Lizzie Weintraub and Dr. Lauren Gilbert.

Psychology Club, Psi Chi Hosts Careers in Psychology Week

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Belmont’s Psychology Club/Psi Chi Club hosted several events for students during their 2016 Careers in Psychology Week. On Monday, Feb. 15, Sarah Hicks and Travis Gay from Mental Health Cooperative came to campus to discuss the organization’s job opportunities and what duties they entail.

On Wednesday, Feb. 17, the club had Bijal Mehta from the Jean Crowe Advocacy Center came to speak with students about internship and job opportunities after graduation.

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