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Belmont Listed on 10 Most Underrated Theater Colleges in Mid West

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Belmont Listed on 10 Most Underrated Theater Colleges in Mid West

A column on Onstage, a theater blog, recently rated Belmont as the 10th most underrated theater college in the mid-west. Others on the list include Western Kentucky University and the University of Memphis.

The column goes on to say, “There is a lot to like about Belmont University’s theatre programs. First is the program itself: Belmont has four BFA degrees to choose from, ranging from Acting and Production design to directing and education, the last of which always scores major points with us. They also have a BA degree with theatre, as well as minors in theatre and dance.

“Belmont is also home to the gorgeous Troutt Theatre, which is a wonderful facility for both the theatre and dance programs to use. They also have a black box theatre, a 150 seat experimental performance and classroom venue for the Department of Theatre and Dance. The Black Box is a flexible performance space with move-able seating risers and is equipped with state-of-the-art lighting and audio equipment. The Black Box is the home for The Actors Bridge Ensemble.

“…Its costs are comparable with other private universities. Notable Alumni include Tony Vincent, DJ Qualls, Tony Winner Levi Kreis and stage legend Mary Martin.”

Alumnus Launches Home for the Nations

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Alumnus Launches Home for the Nations

Andy Seavers, a Belmont entrepreneurship graduate, and his brother, Luke Seavers, have recently launched Home for the Nations, an organization seeking to provide housing relief in Haiti.

With shipping container housing take root in Nashville as a more affordable option, Andy Seavers passed along the idea to his brother who was looking for a way to serve Haitians in need. Soon after, Home for the Nations was born and Luke moved his family to Port-Au-Prince in early August to get started.

The duo recently launched a Kick Starter Campaign to raise funding for a stateside, shipping container rental property to be used to generate revenue. Backers and campaign supporters will have the opportunity to stay in the house once it has been completed. It will also be listed on Airbnb, VBRO and other vacation rental sites. Money generated through the booking and purchasing of the organization’s containers will be used to fund construction projects in Haiti.

Recently featured in an article published in The Tennessean, Home for the Nations is looking to raise $100,000 by September 23. For more information, click here.

*Above image provided by Benjamin Garcia Saxe.

Riechert Co-Authors Chapter in Public Relations Education Book

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ABonnie Riechertssociate Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Relations Dr. Bonnie Riechert co-authored a chapter in a book recently published by the Educators Academy of the Public Relations Society of America, New York.

Riechert and Dr. LaRae Donellan (retired faculty, Florida A&M University) wrote “Building Team Skills: Using Personality Types and Cognitive Skills,” in Learning to Teach: What You Need to Know to Develop a Successful Career as a Public Relations Educator, 4th edition (2015), edited by Bonita Neff and Terri Lynn Johnson.

Occupational Therapy Orientation Includes Community Service

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Occupational Therapy Orientation Includes Community Service

Students and faculty from Belmont’s School of Occupational Therapy participated in an afternoon of service at seven Nashville locations on Monday, August 24, as part of new student orientation.

The team of 56 students and faculty members completed a number of projects including delivering household items for refugee families with World Relief, sorting and organizing equipment for children with special needs living overseas with Show Hope and my LIFE speaks, packaging new parent materials for the Down Syndrome Association of Middle Tennessee, completing landscaping at Homeplace, making graduation photo collages for New Beginnings and interacting with clients at Fifty Forward’s adult daycare services.

Through these experiences, incoming students were introduced to organizations around the Belmont community as they were actively involved in service, a key value of the University and a central theme in the Occupational Therapy Doctorate curriculum design.

Interdisciplinary Faculty Collaborate on Publication

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Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology Dr. Darlene Panini, Associate Professor of Education Dr. Sally Barton-Arwood, Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Dr. Lauren Lunsford, Professor of Chemistry and Physics Dr. Kim Daus, Director of Clinical Practice Kate McGowan, Associate Professor of English Dr. Bonnie Smith Whitehouse and Associate Professor of Math and Education Dr. Ryan Fox recently published an article titled, “Using an Interdisciplinary Critical Friends Group to Manage the Risks with Innovative Teaching” in Innovations in College Science Teaching, a monograph published by the Society for College Science Teachers.

The article stems from their work as an interdisciplinary professional development group and their collaboration to facilitate workshops for middle and high school teachers through an Improving Teacher Quality grant received from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

 

Business Faculty Present at Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management

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Professor of Management Dr. John Maslyn presented his paper, “What do Managers Value in Leader-Member Relationships? Development of a Manager-LMX Measure,” recently at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Vancouver, BC. Maslyn also presented with Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship Dr. Mark Schenkel their co-written paper, “From Harmonious Passion to Innovation: Examining the Roles of Creative Self-Efficacy and Leadership.”

Pharmacy Students Certify with HIMSS

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Belmont College of Pharmacy students Michael Nixon and Brian George recently became certified by examination in the area of health care informatics. The Certified Associate in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CAHIMS) is a new Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) health IT certification designed for emerging professionals within the industry.

This certification demonstrates knowledge of health IT and management systems, facilitating entry-level careers in health IT and is designed to be a career pathway to the Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS) credential.

Belmont’s sponsor of the CAHIMS certification initiative is Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Informatics and Analytics in the Department of Pharmaceutical, Social and Administrative Sciences Anthony Blash, Pharm.D., BCompSc, CPHIMS. Blash has created a four-course sequence of classes to prepare Belmont student pharmacists for healthcare informatics and to sit for the CAHIMS certification. The college saw its first student certify at the CAHIMS level last month and expects 20-30 students to certify each year moving forward.

“Nashville is considered by many to be home to the U.S. healthcare industry, with nearly 300 companies providing healthcare synergies found in few other places.” said Blash.  “If your interests lie in pharmacy and informatics, our program stands apart. With experiential rotation sites at the headquarters of the largest healthcare organizations in the world, faculty with experiences in the corporate boardrooms of many American healthcare companies and a Pharmacy / Healthcare Informatics experience facilitated by the current national chairman of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists’ Educational Steering Committee on Informatics and Technology, our faculty represents the pinnacle of teaching experience. As an HIMSS Approved Education Partner, Belmont University’s College of Pharmacy becomes the only pharmacy school in the world with a healthcare informatics concentration leading to an internationally recognized certification in healthcare informatics which may be obtained before experiential rotations, residency inquiries and job searches begin.”

Women’s Basketball Team Takes Sports Evangelism Trip to Brazil

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Women’s Basketball Team Takes Sports Evangelism Trip to Brazil

Keeping in line with the University’s mission to ‘engage and transform the World,’ Belmont’s Women’s Basketball team recently traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to focus on mission work and service, rather than hoops and sightseeing. Because of a major contract in the city, Head Coach Cameron Newbauer and Betty Wiseman, founder of the Belmont women’s basketball and sports evangelism programs, were able to make the trip a reality through a partnership and sponsorships from Brentwood Baptist Church.

Wiseman has been a member of the church for 37 years and developed a close friendship with Ray and Sharon Fairchild after meeting on a sports evangelism trip in 2000. The Fairchilds were missionaries in Rio for more than 30 years, and Sharon agreed to voluntarily lead Belmont’s trip.

Rio Group ShotCoach Newbauer was eager for his team to learn more about themselves as they ministered to the people of Rio. “As a coach, it is important to show athletes that the value they possess as a human being is far greater and more powerful than any sport they play. Acts of service, such as on our Rio trip, help them see the impact they can have on others,” said Newbauer. “We had a number of individuals that challenged themselves with getting outside of their comfort zone and publicly sharing their faith.”

The week of missions began as the women visited schools in the area building relationships with the students. “I believe everyone would agree that the hardest two days of the trip was each time we left ‘the school on the hill.’ Saying goodbye to the children was so difficult. The happiness they showed while we were there was indescribable. It was just the power of God connecting us in a way that nothing else can, and I do know that our program shared moments with the children and people of Rio that we will never forget and are so grateful to have experienced,” said Newbauer.

Rio-Christ the Redeemer StatueBut the team couldn’t leave without hitting the court. After finishing their service work, they competed against three Brazilian teams. When the women played against Municipal, their first opponent, a game highlight was the half-time gospel messages shared by Wiseman, whom the Brazilian people named “Betchi.” She gave her testimony as attendees prayed alongside her.

While traveling, the group visited a missionary training school for women where Sharon Fairchild constructed a prayer garden for visitors. The team spent quiet time in the garden, under a tree canopy of playing monkeys, and listened to a devotional from Wiseman before heading to their second game against Manguiera. A Belmont second-half run gave the Bruins a comfortable 15 point lead to finish out the game with a 73-59 win. Afterwards, players from each team exchanged apparel to commemorate.

The team’s final game, against All Basket, brought the trips’s largest crowd with more than 150 children from a local church in attendance. They cheered, did the wave and pumped up the team during timeouts and halftime leading to a final Belmont victory of 65-25. “Their energy during our game and the cheering they did at halftime, led by B-dub (Wiseman), was so beautiful to hear. The beat was to ‘We will rock you,’ yet they were yelling ‘Belmont…Belmont….Belmont.’ We had had a very emotional day and to look up and see all these children who came to support us and were so excited to share the game with us was indescribable,” said Newbauer.

Rio Team PhotoBefore leaving Nashville for the trip, the team adopted the Prayer of Jabez as their traveling verse. Chosen for its plea of protection, the scripture speaks to expansion and blessings and kept the group focused on maintaining open hearts and minds to impact the people they met and be changed themselves. Before departing from Rio, the team visited the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue and reflected on the week’s lessons.

Throughout the trip, Newbauer and the team kept their loved ones at home updated via their blog, Bruins on Mission. One of their final posts said, “Our team will never look at a basketball the same. For some it became a soccer ball, for others a precious gift from the Belmont Women’s Basketball team, but for all of us, a basketball is now the bridge that can cross any language barrier and break down walls. A basketball now means hope and love from our team.”

Lewis Published on National PRSSA Blog

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Achievers.Lewis_Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) National Vice President of Advocacy and senior public relations major Victoria Lewis was recently published on PRSSA’s national blog, “Progressions,” with her piece, “Diversity Beyond the Looking Glass.”

In honor of diversity month, the article discusses defining, living and growing diversity, specifically within the public relations field. Lewis writes, “If I had it my way, I would rewrite the definition of diversity on dictionary.com. Diversity: A vast array of experiences and knowledge in any area of life.” She encourages readers to share their definition of diversity on twitter with the hashtag #PRDiversity.

Belmont Tops 7,400 Students for Fall 2015

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Belmont Tops 7,400 Students for Fall 2015

Record-breaking enrollment includes more than 1,400 new freshmen

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With a new semester of classes beginning at 8 a.m. sharp today, Belmont University welcomed a record-breaking 7,425 students to campus this morning, an enrollment number that’s more than doubled since 2000 (2,976 students). This marks the 15th consecutive year that Belmont’s enrollment broke the previous year’s record, a phenomenal feat for a private University committed to traditional, residential education rather than online learning. Applications for undergraduate admissions for Fall 2015 saw an increase of 8.3 percent and resulted in the University’s largest freshman class to date with 1,429 students.

Belmont President Dr. Bob Fisher said, “As Belmont celebrates its 125th Anniversary this year, it’s amazing to me to ponder the way this University has grown and changed over the course of its history. I believe our founders would be incredibly—and pleasantly—surprised to see how their initial dreams to enable female education in the 19th century have developed into a top-ranking, co-ed institution focused on empowering more than 7,400 students to engage and transform the world. I’m honored to again welcome so many new students into that legacy this fall.”

Associate Provost and Dean of Enrollment David Mee added, “Another year of record enrollment at Belmont proves again how this campus offers one of the most astonishing stories in higher education. When a University offers outstanding academic and co-curricular programs, the finest and most advanced facilities and an unwavering commitment to its mission, students from every state and many countries will enroll in record numbers. This has indeed been the Belmont story.”

This year’s incoming freshman class hails from 47 states and represents 10 foreign countries, with 78 percent of the class originating from outside of Tennessee. As a group, Belmont’s Class of 2019 scored an average of 26 on the ACT and held an average high school GPA of 3.5. Twenty-nine percent were in the top 10 percent of their graduating class, with 56 percent in the top quarter of those who submitted a class ranking. Belmont’s student body currently consists of 6,053 undergraduate students and 1,372 pursuing graduate/professional paths.

With the opening this fall of the R. Milton and Denice Johnson Center, Belmont is investing in state-of-the-art academic space and resources to serve its increased enrollment while also more than doubling the seating capacity of its main campus cafeteria.

Final Fall 2015 enrollment figures won’t be available until mid-September following the university’s official drop/add/withdraw period.

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