The 40/40: Rediscovering America class was the subject of a recent story in the Washington Post. Click here to read the article.
Barton-Arwood Published in Journal
Dr. Sally Barton-Arwood, chair of the Department of Education, was recently published in peer-reviewed journal Preventing School Failure in a featured article titled “Visual and Oral Feedback to Promote Appropriate Social Behavior for a Student with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.” Barton-Arwood worked with colleagues from the University of Louisville and Georgia State University to present the outcomes of school-based case study. With increased diversity and behavioral challenges in schools, the article provides practical intervention ideas for teachers with an emphasis on making data-based decisions.
Music Business Professor Receives Fellowship Award
Sarita Martin Stewart, incoming doctoral student in the University of Alabama’s Communication and Information Sciences College, is the recipient of a 2009-2010 Graduate Council Fellowship. Stewart currently serves as an instructor of entertainment industry studies in Belmont’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. The Graduate Council Fellowships are the most prestigious and competitive graduate fellowships at the University of Alabama and are awarded to graduate students with the highest academic and scholarly qualifications. The fellowship covers tuition and fees, single health insurance and an annual stipend.
Stewart will focus her studies in the area of Mass Communication with an emphasis on entertainment theory under the guidance of Dr. Jennings Bryant, a noted media expert and the Reagan Endowed Chair of Broadcasting. Stewart has more than 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry, having started her career in Los Angeles at Curb Records. She has worked with a variety of top music artists including Tim McGraw, LeAnn Rimes and Wynonna Judd, among others. She has also held positions as Marketing Manager for AKG Acoustics, U.S., and as a self-employed artist manager.
College of Business Administration Hosts Eighth Annual TSCPA Accounting Academy
Seventy high school students from across the state of Tennessee recently gathered on the campus of Belmont University to participate in the eighth annual Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants (TSCPA) Accounting Academy. Under the direction of Dr. Del DeVries, assistant professor of accounting and information systems, and Dr. Jane Dillard-Eggers, associate professor of accounting, this free, four-day program offers students the opportunity to explore careers in accounting and learn more about the dynamic world of business. This year students met more than 50 accounting professionals, participated in an interactive team project and visited several area businesses, including Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain, the Tennessee Titans practice facility, Curb Records and the historic RCA Studio B.
This is the third consecutive year the program has been hosted at Belmont University. Dr. Pat Raines, dean of the College of Business Administration, said, “The TSCPA Accounting Academy aligns with our approach to teaching by incorporating experiential methods of learning that are fun and engaging. We believe students can truly benefit from the professional experience and business contacts our faculty possess and are happy to partner with TSCPA to help students better understand the opportunities available in the accounting profession.”
Acree and Ward Serve as National Science Foundation Mathematics Reviewers
Dr. Glenn Acree, professor in the department of mathematics and computer science, and Barbara Ward, assistant professor in mathematics and computer science, recently served on panels to review mathematics and statistics research proposals for the National Science Foundation. The review panels met July 13-14 in Arlington, Va. The grant applications were for the Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program which seeks to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education for all undergraduate students.
Jordan-Lake’s Novel Wins 2009 Christy Award
Author and adjunct professor Joy Jordan-Lake recently received the 2009 Christy Award for excellence in Christian Fiction. The award was presented on July 11 at the tenth annual Christy Awards presentation in Denver, Colo. Jordan-Lake’s Blue Hole Back Home took home top honors in the First Novel category. It was also recently selected by Baylor University as the Common Book 2009, which will be read by more than 4,000 incoming freshmen. Each year The Christy Award invites publishers to submit novels written from a Christian worldview and copyrighted in the year preceding the awards. The novels are then read and evaluated against a 10-point criteria by a panel of seven judges composed of librarians, reviewers, academicians, literary critics and other qualified readers, none of whom have a direct affiliation with a publishing company.
Admissions Nominated for Excellence Awards
Belmont University’s Office of Admissions was nominated for Excellence Awards in the Activity in Users’ Community and Product Expertise categories at the recent Connect University 2009 conference in Boston. Connect U, the EMT Users’ Conference, brings together higher education experts from across the globe for four days of training, networking and sharing of best practices in admissions and enrollment management.
40/40 Class Returns to Nashville After 9,300 Mile Journey
After a 9,300 mile journey through 40 states, Belmont’s “40 States in 40 Days: Rediscovering America” class returned to Nashville late Wednesday evening. Despite skipping the last city on the tour, Montgomery, Ala., due to a mechanical failure on their bus, the ten students along with traveling faculty members Ken Spring and Andi Stepnick arrived home with new perspective on their country and culture.
Junior Jenni Kilen blogged earlier this week, “Either CNN has done a total revamp, or I really have changed a lot over the past 37 days. As Emily, Shirah and I sat down to the glorious cheap salad bar in the grocery store we are parked near, I found myself absorbed in the T.V. Instead of tuning out information that was either too depressing or didn’t seem relevant in my life, CNN was more like a collage of stories that weaved gracefully into my thought process these last six weeks… I don’t think travel is necessary for these kinds of discoveries, but I am thankful to have had the privilege to have my eyes opened.”
The class continued to receive media coverage throughout its journey, including an article in the July 17 Chronicle of Higher Education Daily Report. Click here
to read “What It Means to Be an American (Hint: It Involves Freeway Travel).”
Kiningham to Be Published in Journal
Dr. Kelley Kiningham, associate professor in the School of Pharmacy, was recently informed that an article she co-authored titled “Progestin Stimulation of Manganese Superoxide Dismutase and Invasive Properties in T47D Human Breast Cancer Cells” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Cusic Signs Books at Cowboy Hall of Fame
Music Business Professor Dr. Don Cusic was at the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City recently to sign copies of his latest book, The Trials of Henry Flipper, First Black Graduate of West Point. Cusic’s biography of Flipper, who was court martialed in 1881 in one of the most controversial courts martial in history, looks beyond that event and chronicles a young black man who was born a slave, lived through the Civil War and died as World War II began in Europe.
