Club to Consider Starting Real PR Firm
The Board of Directors of the Public Relations Society of America has granted a charter to Belmont University to establish a chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America. The charter caps an incredible first year for the Public Relations Program, which in its first year was one of the fastest growing academic programs at Belmont. The PRSSA chapter is considering partnering with the university’s Center for Entrepreneurship to launch a real student-managed public relations firm.
Public Relations Program Launches PRSSA Chapter
Belmont’s Ocean Way Nashville Studio Hires New Manager
The Ocean Way Nashville recording studio has announced a change in the management with the hiring of Glenda Cones as studio manager. Cones, who has been with the studio’s parent company Belmont University for almost a decade, was formerly director of strategic programs for the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. “Ocean Way has always been committed to setting a new standard in the recording industry,” Cones told Mix magazine. “I am honored to be a part of it and thrilled with the challenge of continuing to move that bar.”
Blogging Documentary Partially Filmed at Belmont
Two clips from the forthcoming documentary film documentary:BLOG, filmed partially in Nashville at the BlogNashville conference at Belmont University last May, have been posted online here at the film’s weblog, www.documentaryblog.com. Much of the filming for the documentary took place inside Belmont’s Beaman Student Life Center, the Vince Gill Room and the Massey Performing Arts Center. The voice you hear at the beginning of the clip titled “BlogStar” is that of Dr. Sybril Bennett, executive director of Belmont’s New Century Journalism program.
Rolling Stone Hails Belmont’s Music Business Program
Rolling Stone magazine has honored Belmont’s music business program in its “Schools that Rock” College Guide. Rolling Stone says: “The most worthwhile music program in Nashville is offered by Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. Students who graduate receive a BBA (bachelor of business administration) with a concentration in entertainment and music business.”
Belmont University creates new community scholarship
Belmont University today announced the creation of a generous new scholarship program for high school graduates who live in the area surrounding the university. The Community Outreach Scholarship will pay 50 percent of a neighborhood student’s tuition for up to eight consecutive semesters.
Belmont Offers New Community Scholarship – Nashville City Paper
The Nashville City Paper reports on Belmont University’s creation of a new Community Outreach Scholarship.
Music Industry Educators Association moves offices to Belmont
The Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association, a nationally recognized leader in the field of educating students planning to enter the music and entertainment industries, has returned to its original home on the Belmont University campus. The MEIEA, which brings together educators and professionals with interests in furthering education in the music and entertainment industries, was founded at Belmont in 1979, and will be housed at the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business.
Business blog raises profile of Belmont – The Tennessean
Most mornings, if it’s nice outside, Jeff Cornwall sits on his porch in Franklin, coffee in hand, researching small-business ownership on his laptop. Using the information he gathers, as well as his own expertise, he adds a couple of entries to his Web log, or “blog,” The Entrepreneurial Mind, before heading off to work at Belmont University. “Some people overly romanticize entrepreneurship. I try to bring some realism to that,” said Cornwall, director of Belmont’s Center for Entrepreneurship. “There is a tremendous amount of information out there. Some of it’s good, some of it’s not so good.” … The Entrepreneurial Mind recently made Forbes.com’s “Best of the Web” list of small-business blogs… Read the whole story in The Tennessean.
Memorial Foundation Gives $500,000 Technology Grant to Inman College of Health Sciences and Nursing
Funds will provide state-of-the-art equipment and open the door to a new “distance learning” option for nursing students in Middle Tennessee.
The Memorial Foundation has approved a grant of $500,000 to Belmont University for capital support for technology in the new Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences and Nursing building, currently under construction. The Memorial Foundation’s grant will be used to help equip the new facility with the best in health sciences training technology, including simulators, task trainers, computer software and other equipment, video conferencing and satellite communications web-casting capabilities. The technology will make it possible for faculty to teach remote students who are entering Belmont’s health sciences programs.
