Belmont University’s Curb Cafe was the setting Friday for a taping of a Great American Country (GAC) Prime time Special Series interview with country music recording star Trisha Yearwood, a Belmont alumna. About 100 students filled the audience for the special, produced by Jim Owens Productions and interviewer Lorriane Crook. The special will air at a future date on the cable country music channel.
GAC Tapes Trisha Yearwood Special at Curb Cafe
Belmont University Offers to Admit Students Displaced by Katrina
Will send tuition payments to students’ home institutions
Belmont University announced today that it will admit students who were planning to attend universities and colleges in the areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina – and send their tuition payments to their home universities. “For students who have already paid tuition to their home institutions, we will allow the tuition to remain there. For those who have not, we will collect Belmont tuition and remit it to the home institutions,” said Belmont University Provost Dan McAlexander.
Cornwall turns focus to developing entrepreneurs – The Tennessean
Can anybody be an entrepreneur? Probably not — but enough new people have a vision for owning their own business that they are turning America’s traditional big-company economy on its head, according to Jeffrey Cornwall, who runs the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University. Many of his students already own businesses, which become “living labs” for the coursework. That immersion in real-life application of business concepts is the heart of the program at Belmont. Cornwall, who holds the Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship at Belmont, sat down recently with Assistant Managing Editor/Business Deborah W. Fisher to talk about it. Read the whole “Executive Q&A” in the business section of the Sunday, August 28, Tennessean, or online here. To read Dr. Cornwall’s daily weblog, The Entrepreneurial Mind, click here.
Belmont ID is ticket to ride MTA buses for free – The Tennessean
Starting this week, Belmont students and employees can ride free on city buses. … Parking was one of several reasons Belmont decided to launch the program with MTA, university officials said. While Vanderbilt University started a similar program for its employees last summer, Belmont is the first Nashville university to pay for its students’ rides. Read all about it in today’s Tennessean, online here.
Enrollment Tops 4,000 Two Years Ahead of Goal
Campus-wide celebration planned
Belmont University has set another school record for fall enrollment, achieving a milestone goal two years early as more than 4,300 students have enrolled for the fall semester. Five years ago, with enrollment less than 3,000 students, Belmont’s administration and Board of Trustees set a goal of increasing enrollment to 4,000 by the fall of 2007. The final total for the fall 2005 semester shows that 4,319 students have enrolled at Belmont for the fall semester, 378 more than in the fall of 2004, an increase of 9.6 percent.
Leu Art Gallery Sets Winter Exhibition
Belmont University’s Leu Art Gallery has announced its next exhibition, Myth and Meaning: Recent Paintings by Greg Decker, which begins in early October at the gallery. Decker is a figurative painter, producing oil paintings which are often ‘mythical’ in content, as well as portraits and still-lifes.
Rebirth on the Row – Nashville City Paper
Belmont, MTA offer free bus service – Nashville City Paper
Belmont University and the Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) reached a partnership agreement Tuesday that will provide free bus transportation to and from the university for students, faculty and staff. The Nashville City Paper story is online here.
Belmont provides free MTA bus service to students, faculty, staff
Bus transportation offered as perk in employee benefits package
Belmont University students and staff can now leave their cars, trucks, and SUVs at home and rely on the Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority for their rides to and from the university thanks to a new partnership agreement between the university and MTA announced today. Belmont is the first university in Nashville to offer free bus service to its students.
Hundreds of Freshman Help in Community Service to Start New Year
Approximately 650 incoming Belmont University freshmen volunteered to help in service to the Nashville community Monday as part of “Welcome Week” for the new school year at the Nashville university. Students worked on a variety of community service projects ranging from working in the warehouse at the Nashville Rescue Mission, packing food at Feed the Children, doing building repair work at Preston Taylor Ministries and landscaping at the Martha O’Bryan Center. Each year, Belmont invites incoming freshmen to participate in community service as part of a week-long slate of activities introducing them to life as a Belmont student.
