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Paula Gill Appointed Associate Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness

Paula Gill Achievers.jpgBelmont University has appointed Dr. Paula A. Gill to the position of Associate Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness. Gill will be responsible for evaluating the university’s progress toward its performance objectives and for seeking ways to improve services and processes that provide value for students. Gill has served in numerous positions during her 15 years at Belmont, most recently as Associate Dean of Enrollment Services.
“In our current economic environment, higher education institutions must lead the way in examining and evaluating academic and administrative activities to identify areas for innovation, improvement, efficiencies, and cost savings to enhance student learning,” Gill said. “Belmont is recognized nationally for its innovative approaches to academic programming and delivery of administrative services. I look forward to working with my colleagues at Belmont as we continue this trend of innovation and improvement to address the myriad challenges and opportunities facing higher education institutions.”
Gill received a Doctor of Education degree and Master of Science degree from the University of Alabama and a Bachelor of Science degree from Belmont University. She is a past president of the National Consortium of Continuous Improvement, an organization whose aim is to advance academic and administrative excellence in higher education by identifying, promoting, supporting and sharing effective organizational practices among the 90 plus member institutions.

Willie Young Named Director of Major Gifts

Belmont University has appointed Willie Young to the position of Director of Major Gifts for University Advancement. Young will be responsible for coordinating the growth of major gifts to Belmont and helping coach and advise its gift staff. He will also continue as Director of Development for the College of Business Administration, a position Young has held since 2008.
Prior to working at Belmont, Young was founder and president of a Nashville-based marketing and fundraising firm with clients including Vanderbilt University, Belmont University, First American Bank and the Sony Corp. He also served as a Director of Major Gifts at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. In addition to his fundraising work, Young worked as a composer-lyricist in the music business in Nashville and the theatrical business in New York.

College of Arts and Sciences Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary

CASDeansPanel2.jpgAs part of the College of Arts and Sciences 10-year anniversary, former deans Dr. Don Ramage, Dr. Richard Fallis, Dr. Larry Hall and Dr. Mike Pinter served on a panel and answered faculty-submitted questions on Thursday.
Each man shared his greatest accomplishments as dean. Dr. Ramage, who served as dean of the School of Sciences from 1983-1998 and as dean of both the School of Sciences and the School of Humanities/Education in 1994-95, said fathering the Belmont Undergraduate Research Symposium was his greatest accomplishment. He added that one of his proudest moments was when the faculty approved the physical therapy and occupational therapy programs.
Dr. Fallis, the inaugural dean of CAS from 1999-2001, said launching the College of Arts and Sciences was his greatest achievement because “we started from scratch.” He highlighted Belmont’s “special energy” and the faculty’s willingness to try something new.
Dr. Hall, dean of CAS from 2001-2007, was most proud of the quality of people CAS was able to hire and the nature of the college. He noted, “CAS kept up with Belmont’s growth and even grew faster.”
Dr. Pinter, who has served as interim dean of the School of Sciences in 1998 and as interim dean of CAS in summer of 2001 and during the 2007-2008 school year, listed keeping things moving as smoothly as possible, quickly addressing issues, paying attention to the staff and hiring Lisa McGuire as his greatest achievements.

Belmont Recognized on President’s Higher Ed Community Service Honor Roll

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CommunityServiceAward.jpgBelmont University has been named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.
Tim Stewart, director of Service-Learning for the Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Service-Learning, said, “I am very proud of the Belmont students, faculty and staff who have contributed to making this recognition possible. We are grateful, too, to our community partners who provide these wonderful learning opportunities for our students. Most of all, I am glad that by working with the community, we are helping to make Nashville a better place for all of us as we help Belmont students ‘engage and transform’ the world, both now and in the future.”
The Corporation for National and Community Service, which administers the annual Honor Roll award, recognized more than 700 colleges and universities for their impact on issues from poverty and homelessness to environmental justice. Belmont students and faculty are serving the community in many different capacities. Recent examples include students tutoring with the Nashville Adult Literacy Council, volunteering with Mobile Loaves and Fishes and promoting non-profit organizations like the Safe Haven Homeless Shelter.

Belmont Student Voted President-Elect of TSSP

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The Tennessee Society of Student of Pharmacists (TSSP) is the state-wide, student group for the Tennessee Pharmacists Association (TPA). For the recent TSSP and TPA Midyear Meeting, Belmont University School of Pharmacy was selected to nominate the two candidates for president- elect for TSSP for 2010-2011. Two Belmont second year pharmacy students provided platform presentations. Meeting attendees voted, and Shanna Harris was elected. Shanna immediately began serving as president-elect and will continue to serve TSSP for an additional year as president (2011-2012). Belmont was also represented by TSSP Members-at-Large Lindsey Smith and Erika Wass and by Delegates Lindsey Hoffman, John “JP” Pustulka and Lee Rembert.

Adams Awarded ‘Teacher of Honor’

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Education graduate LaTricea Adams has been awarded the Kappa Delta Pi Teacher of Honor designation. This new recognition program honors practicing teachers with three or more years of professional experience who demonstrate commitment to continuous professional growth and integrity in the classroom. Adams is a Spanish teacher and foreign language department chair at Cane Ridge High School in Antioch, Tennessee.

ONE Program Profiled by Renewal

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Belmont’s Our Natural Environment (ONE) program was recently mentioned in Renewal’s “Green Awakenings” report, which focuses on the environmental efforts of more than 50 Christian colleges and universities throughout the country. The report details ONE’s plan for the 2009-2010 school year, which includes collaborations with the Belmont community, the Student Government Association and Belmont administrators.
ONE uses surveys to determine what environmental issues are most important to students. This year, ONE will survey students about the environmental practices they value enough to incorporate into their lives. Renewal is a student-led, Christian environmental group active on campuses throughout the United States and Canada.

Parry Presents Paper at USM Symposium

Pam Parry, associate professor of journalism, will present a paper at the 2010 Graduate Student Research Symposium at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Miss. on March 26. She will present “Second Fiddle, Not Second Rate: Associate Role Obscures Anne Wheaton’s Contributions to Public Relations.” Parry presented this paper at the American Journalism Historians Association annual conference in October, where it won two honorable mention awards for best graduate paper and for best paper on women’s history. The USM graduate faculty selected it as one of eight papers to represent the School of Mass Communication/Journalism at the competitive graduate symposium, where each USM department nominates their top graduate student papers for the year. Parry is working on a doctorate of philosophy degree from Southern Mississippi.

Beta Alpha Psi Presents at Regional Conference

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BetaAlphaPsiStudents.JPGBelmont University’s chapter of Beta Alpha Psi (BAP), an international honorary organization for all undergraduate and graduate accounting, finance and information systems majors, participated in the Southeast Regional Beta Alpha Psi conference in Orlando last weekend. Belmont BAP President and Masters of Accountancy student Alexa Karpinski and Rachel McNabb, sophomore accounting major, presented their Chapter Sustainability project in the Best Practices Competition at the conference. Highlighting the growth at both Belmont University and the Beta Alpha Psi chapter, their project suggested ways to improve the efficiency and longevity of the chapter through the development and implementation of various tools/procedures. In addition to the presentation, Karpinski, McNabb and BAP Faculty Advisor Dr. Del DeVries attended professional workshops and a lecture on Ethics and Integrity.

AST Hosts Annual Mardi Tau Event

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MardiTau.jpgAlpha Sigma Tau hosted its annual campus-wide Mardi Tau event Fri., Feb. 12 with a “Back to the Bayou” theme. The sisters of AST decorated Belmont University’s Neely Black & White dining hall in a Bayou-Mardi Gras fashion. The event was a huge success with record attendance, reaching 200 people at the peak of the evening and a steady 75 attendees at any given time. The event offered a photo booth and fortune-telling tent, a DJ, and some of Belmont’s finest student performers. Alpha Sigma Tau upheld the tradition of selecting a Mardi Tau Court. Mardi Tau King, for which only greek men can be nominated, was Alpha Tau Omega’s Todd Farrell, while Mardi Tau Queen (always an AST sister) was Lara Jabour. Duke (non-greek male) was Read Davis and Mardi Tau Dutchess (Greek female who is not an AST) was Phi Mu’s Rachel Knight.