Forbes magazine has selected Belmont University professor Dr. Jeff Cornwall’s The Entrepreneurial Mind, a daily weblog about entrepreneurship and small business, as one of the “Best of the Web” among the myriad of blogs about small business. The magazine has posted its selections online at Forbes.com.
Forbes names Belmont professor’s blog to “Best of the Web”
Belmont Sets “Send-Off Celebrations” For Incoming Freshman
Belmont University is inviting alumni along with current students, new students and parents of students living in the Memphis area and in the Nashville suburbs of Williamson County to attend one of two Summer Send-Off Celebrations in early August. The events will give alumni, students and parents a chance to meet Belmont University President Dr. Robert Fisher and other campus leaders, learn about current developments on campus, enjoy food and entertainment and meet other students, parents and alumni from their area.
Celebrity Basketball Fundraiser at the Curb
The Tennessean reports on Tennessee Titans wide receiver Drew Bennett’s Celebrity Wheelchair Basketbrawl Game, played at Belmont’s Curb Event Center Tuesday night. The well-attended event raised funds for United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee and ABLE Youth.
Belmont Tennis Honored with National Awards
The Intercollegiate Tennis Assocation (ITA) named Belmont University’s men’s tennis team a 2004-05 All-Academic Team, an honor for tennis teams who finish the academic year with a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or higher. The men’s tennis team at Belmont finished with a team GPA of 3.25 and was one of 29 NCAA Division I schools and the only Atlantic-Sun Conference squad to be honored.
In addition, three Belmont tennis players earned the ITA’s Scholar-Athlete Award: junior David Wright, sophomore Alex Gillott and the women’s team’s Elizabeth Conyer, a sophomore.
Music Business Students to Benefit from Curb Buying Historic Studios
Music mogul Mike Curb, for whom Belmont’s Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business is named, has purchased the property that includes the historic Studio A and Quonset Hut recording studios on Nashville’s Music Row, and his plans for the building include more learning space for Belmont’s music business students. The Tennessean reports today…
Casting Call for The Apprentice at Belmont Saturday
An open casting call for one of network television’s hottest reality shows, NCB’s The Apprentice, comes to Belmont University on Saturday, July 23rd. If you’ve ever watched the show and thought, “I could win,” this is your opportunity. The casting call interviews, in the Beaman A&B rooms at the Curb Event Center/Beaman Student Life Center complex, begin at 10 a.m., but wristband distribution starts at 9 a.m. and only those with wristbands will be seen. You’ll need to bring your completed application, which you can download from the link here.
Spring 2005 Circle
The Spring 2005 edition of Belmont’s award-winning Circle magazine is now out, containing a variety of stories including a look at an unusual mission trip; profiles of a second-generation Belmont Bruins baseball player Wilson Tucker Jr., Belmont benefactor Gordon E. Inman, and new Vice President of Spiritual Development Todd Lake; a look at Belmont’s fast-growing public relations major, features on Homecoming and Spring 2005 Commencement, a variety of news updates, and much more. If you haven’t received your copy in the mail yet, you can read it online here.
Mythic Power
Dr. Amy Sturgis, professor of liberal studies, comments on the power and popularity of myths in literature and movies, in an article in the July 10 Denver Post that examines why “America’s 21st century has been particularly awash in it, with a bulk of the age’s signature entertainment events reveling in myth.”
Marketable Skills
Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University, is quoted in this week’s Nashville Business Journal, discussing why economics is a popular undergraduate major these days. Cornwall “says the upswing correlates with perceptions about finding post-graduate jobs,” reports NBJ.
Dr. Bennett Named Educator in the Newsroom Fellow
Dr. Sybril Bennett, executive director of Belmont’s New Century Journalism program, recently was named a 2005 Educator in the Newsroom Fellow by the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation. As part of the fellowship, Bennett spent a month working for WTVF-TV (NewsChannel5) in Nashville. Now in its sixth year, EIN Fellowships place broadcast journalism professors in radio or television newsrooms for a month-long work experience each summer.
