Belmont senior golfer Lorie Warren captured her fifth individual title of her collegiate career when she earned medalist honors at the Great Smokies Intercollegiate held Monday and Tuesday in Waynesville, North Carolina. In the team results, the Bruins finished in 15th place. Warren, the reigning Tennessee Women’s Amateur Champion, posted a three-under 69 in Tuesday’s final round to capture the title over Wofford’s Sarah Hunt by one stroke. Her 36-hole score of 138 broke her own school record by three shots and was the second lowest individual score in the history of the tournament. Click here for more on this story.
Dickens Provides Seniors Advice for Success
Marty Dickens, chairman of Belmont’s Board of Trust and retired President of AT&T, kicked off the “Belmont and Beyond” program series on Monday morning in the Massey Boardroom. Focusing on the topic “Journey to Success,” Dickens shared a few guiding life principles with a group of senior students. He opened the convocation by examining the many changes in the world today, especially in the digital realm, noting that the AT&T network last year was processing 10 petabytes of traffic daily or the equivalent of 400 times the digitized contents of the Library of Congress.
Still, despite such technological advances, Dickens emphasized the importance of giving precedence to character over competence. Using both biblical examples and themes from The Wizard of Oz, he said, “To be truly successful, I believe you must balance your smarts with your heart.”
Belmont to Host Seigenthalers for Debate Dialogue
Journalism Veterans to Discuss ‘Ethical Responsibility in an Election Year’
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The Center for Business Ethics and the new Century Journalism Program will host a lively dialogue between John L. Seigenthaler, award-winning journalist and founder of the First Amendment Center, and his son John M. Seigenthaler, partner and CEO of Seigenthaler Public Relations New York and former NBC news anchor. The dialogue, titled “Ethical Responsibility in an Election Year: Is the Media Helping or Hurting?,” is scheduled for Fri., Sept. 26 at 10 a.m. in the Frist Lecture Hall located on the fourth floor of Belmont’s Gordon E. Inman Center.
The Seigenthalers will share an ethical perspective on the media’s coverage of the presidential election and will engage in a dialogue on positive and negative examples of ethics and media coverage. They will also answer questions from the audience consisting of Belmont University students and the larger Middle Tennessee community. This event is free, but seating is limited. Registration is available by clicking here.
John L. Seigenthaler founded the First Amendment Center in 1991 with the mission of creating national discussion, dialogue and debate about First Amendment rights and values. A former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Seigenthaler served for 43 years as an award-winning journalist for The Tennessean, Nashville’s daily newspaper. At his retirement he was editor, publisher and CEO and retains the title chairman emeritus. In 1982, he became founding editorial director of USA Today and served in that position for a decade, retiring from both the Nashville and national newspapers in 1991.
Callahan Visit Sparks Ethics Discussion on ‘Cheating Culture’
Earlier this week David Callahan, author of bestseller The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead and of the new book The Moral Center: How Progressives Can Unite America around Our Shared Values, spoke to a packed house in the Maddox Grand Atrium on “The Cheating Culture: Ethics and Democracy.”
The Tennessean interviewed Callahan prior to his lecture. Click here to view an excerpt from that interview.
Callahan has had numerous articles published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today. He has also been a frequent commentator on CNN, CBS, PBS, MSNBC and FOX News and has been a regular guest on radio talk shows across the United States. He lectures frequently about issues of ethics and integrity to universities, associations and businesses.
Callahan’s visit was sponsored by Belmont’s Center for Business Ethics, which seeks to bring people together in the discussion of business ethics, to help empower business leaders to face the current crisis in business ethics and to educate ethical business leaders for a better society. Upcoming events in the Center’s Ethics Leadership Speakers Series surrounding the 2008 Town Hall Presidential Debate include a Sept. 26 conversation with award-winning journalists John Seigenthaler and John Seigenthaler, Jr. on the topic “Ethics and the Presidential Election: Is the Media Helping or Hurting?,” an Oct. 21 presentation by author Cynthia Cooper on “Ethical Dilemmas: Power and Money” and a Nov. 6 lecture by economist Jonathan Wight on “The New Administration and the Economy: What Can We Expect?”
Rock the Vote ‘Road Trip’ Arrives at Belmont Saturday
Melinda Doolittle to Perform in Afternoon Concert
Rock the Vote, the leading organization for youth and politics, will come to Belmont’s campus this Saturday afternoon for the kick-off concert of a three-week “Road Trip” designed to fully maximize voter registration, education and engagement efforts in key youth markets. The concert, which will occur from 2-4 p.m. on the South Lawn, will feature performances by Belmont alumna and “American Idol” finalist Melinda Doolittle along with two Nashville-based bands.
Already, it’s a historic year for Rock the Vote. More than 1.4 million people have registered to vote through www.rockthevote.com, making this the largest youth voter registration drive in history. The Road Trip ’08 is a state-of-the-art mobile road show designed to reach out to the nation’s youth via high profile events on college campuses. The Road Trip ’08 tour bus has been outfitted with computer kiosks that will assist in voter registration and educate users about the election process. These kiosks will also field requests for absentee ballots, teach users about key issues, inform users about voting poll locations and much more.
“The Road Trip ’08 will take our work to the streets, reaching out to young people in America’s small cities and towns bringing together musicians, politicians and celebrities with the goal of educating and registering new voters and fueling record turn out in November,” said Heather Smith, Rock the Vote’s executive director.
Junior to Participate in Online News Association Student Newsroom
Junior Abby Selden, a New Century Journalism major, is heading to Washington, D.C. this week to work in the Online News Association (ONA) Student Newsroom. Selden is one of 16 students selected to cover this exceptional new media event. This summer Abby interned at the Journal Communications, Inc., and she has also written an article for The Tennessean. Visit www.journalists.org for Selden’s stories as well as new media tips, tricks, techniques and technology. The ONA convention is being held Sept.11-13 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C.
Woodard Publishes Editorial in Tennessean
Beth Woodard, associate professor of management in the Massey Graduate School of Business, had an editorial published this week in The Tennessean on the Census Report. Click here to read the story.
Giorgianni Co-Writes Booklet on Overcoming Depression, Anxiety and Stress
Dr. Sal Giorgianni, assistant Professor and director of experiential education and development, recently co-authored a new booklet from the Men’s Health Network titled Your Head: An Owner’s Manual. Understanding and Overcoming Depression, Anxiety and Stress. This 28-page booklet provides information to help understand the nature and type of stresses and symptoms of stress that men and boys have and how they may translate into depression and anxiety conditions. The book also provides listings of numerous self help and professional resources and organizations that men and those who care about them can access to address emotional problems.
Entrepreneurship Program Gains National Top 25 Ranking
From more than 2,300 schools surveyed by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review, Belmont University was distinguished as having one of the top 25 entrepreneurship programs. Belmont ranked 23rd in the undergraduate category of the survey.
The sixth annual ranking reveals the nation’s Top 25 undergraduate and Top 25 graduate programs for entrepreneurship. Belmont’s ranking can be seen at www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges, along with information on overall trends found with social and environmental entrepreneurship, experiential learning and entrepreneurship as a means of reaching out both internationally and locally.
“Belmont made the commitment to create a quality program in entrepreneurship, and I am proud that we have been able to make so much progress in only five years,” said Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of Belmont’s Center for Entrepreneurship and holder of the Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship. “To be singled out from the hundreds of universities across the country is a testimony to the support we have gotten from the students, alumni, faculty, staff and administration of Belmont and the Nashville business community.”
Psychology Professors to Speak at Conference
Drs. Lonnie Yandell and William Bailey, both professors in Belmont’s Psychology Department, will conduct a workshop at the “Getting Connected: Best Practices in Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning in Psychology” conference on Fri. and Sat., Oct. 3-4 in Atlanta. This is the seventh conference in the popular “Best Practices in Teaching Psychology” series, which started in 2002 and is sponsored by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, American Psychological Association Division 2.
The title of their workshop is “Online Pre-Class Quizzing in a Blended Psychology Survey Course.” They will present information on the background and goals of pre-class quizzes, as well as the practical problems involved in developing, administering and assessing this method using a web-based platform such as Blackboard. Dr. Yandell will also present a poster titled “Online Mastery Psychology Survey Course” at the conference, which will focus on a description of his survey of psychology course that makes use of the mastery learning method, sometimes referred to as the Personalized System of Instruction, in an online environment. Dr. Linda Jones will also be attending the conference.
