The Belmont University athletic department announced that SunTrust Bank has been signed as the title sponsor of the 2005 SunTrust Bank Atlantic Sun Men’s Basketball Championship. The Atlantic Sun Conference will send its top eight men’s basketball teams to Nashville to compete for the conference’s automatic berth to March Madness. The entire event will again will be hosted by Belmont University March 3-5 in the Curb Event Center.
SunTrust, Belmont Partner to Return A-Sun Tournament to Nashville
PBS To Broadcast Christmas at Belmont Concert Nationwide
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, will broadcast Belmont University’s annual Christmas at Belmont concert, making it available to millions of TV viewers across the country. PBS will carry the one-hour concert at 8 p.m., Wednesday, December 22. It will air a second time in the Nashville area on the PBS affiliate WNPT at 9 p.m., Thursday, December 23.
Sudden death of an executive may test how well a business has planned – The Tennessean
Dr. Jeffrey Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University, is one of the experts quoted in a story in the business section of today’s Tennessean about the need for succession-planning for family-owned businesses.
Curb Event Center Celebrates One Year
On November 14, Belmont University celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Curb Event Center with an open house for the community. The Curb Event Center treated guests to hot dogs, drinks and birthday cake. Guests were also treated to tours of the Curb Event Center, including all backstage areas.
Word turns to Van Hook to change ailing tune – The Tennessean
Jim Van Hook, one of Christian music’s most successful entrepreneurs, has been tapped to turn around Word Entertainment. Van Hook signed a multi-year contract as chairman and chief executive officer of Word, which suffered a major blow two months ago when it lost key distribution client Integrity Music Group to Provident Music Group, a Christian division of Sony BMG. Van Hook, 63, built Franklin-based Provident Music Group into one of the Christian industry’s three largest record companies as its longtime chairman and CEO before retiring and moving to a job at Belmont University. BMG acquired Provident in late 2002. Van Hook went into retirement the following spring, then four months later he was named the first dean of Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business. He will keep that position while heading up Word.
Belmont University Dean Selected as Interim CEO of Word Entertainment
Van Hook, former chairman and CEO of Provident Music Group, which he founded in 1981 and sold to Zomba Music Group in 1994, was appointed Dean of the Curb College in the fall of 2003. He will assume the interim CEO role immediately. The dual role for Van Hook makes the Curb College the only college of music business with a dean who is active as an executive in the music industry.
Belmont University “Best Places To Work” Finalist
Belmont University was selected as one of 21 finalists among Middle Tennessee’s Best Places to Work by the Nashville Business Journal in a program sponsored by NBJ, Quantum Market Research and Vanderbilt University. Belmont was the only university chosen as a finalist. Other companies on the list included Aegis, Atkinson Public Relations, Bohan, Bridgestone Americas Holding, Century II, First Tennessee Bank, Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Hemophilia Health Services, Kraft CPAs, Lattimore Black Morgan & Cain, McNeely Pigott & Fox, NAI Mathews Partners, OffSite Works, Pinnacle Financial Partners, Quality Systems, Scholarship Program Administrators, Solomon Builders, Sy.Med, Thread F/X, and Worth Properties.
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A Christmas Gift to Nashville:Belmont Again Offers Slate of Free Concerts
The talented student and faculty musicians and performers at Belmont University are again offering the Nashville community the holiday-season gift of a series of free Christmas concerts.
Belmont Class Plans “Day of Hope”Recruiting Volunteers for American Cancer Society
Students in Dr. Cynthia McGovern’s Organizational Leadership and Communication Class at Belmont University have dedicated December 4 as a “Day of Hope,” and will be fanning out across the Nashville area to recruit volunteers for the American Cancer Society.
“Here at Belmont we value real-world experiences and we feel that it is important to give back to our community,” says McGovern, faculty sponsor for A Day of Hope. “This project provides the students with a true opportunity for leadership that will give them an understanding beyond the classroom or any textbook – plus it gives us a chance to help the American Cancer Society to accomplish its mission.”
OT Students Awarded Scholarships
Saturday, November 13, the Tennessee Occupational Therapy Association (TOTA) held its annual conference at Belmont University. During the conference, two Belmont occupational therapy students – Casey Emery and Melissa Sitton – won the top two scholarship prizes given to students from Tennessee who are also members of TOTA. Emery was awarded $400 and Sitton was given $850.
