Beelmont University student Aaron Moss is one of several Nashville-area college students included in the Nashville City Paper report on recipients of prestigious Fulbright grants for the 2004-05 school year. The grants pay for students to conduct independent studies abroad for nine months. Moss will use his Fulbright grant to study American influence on Czech classical music after the removal of the Russian communist regime in 1989.
Summer Commencement Set
The 2004 summer Commencement at Belmont University will see the graduation of 174 students, including 57 receiving bachelor’s degrees, 49 receiving master’s degrees, and 31 receiving doctoral degrees, in ceremonies set for 7:30 p.m., Friday, August 13, in the Curb Event Center. For complete commencement details click here.
Blind Freshman Receives Scholarship
Domonique Lawless, an incoming freshman at Belmont University, was among 30 blind scholars nationwide who shared in $122,000 in scholarships from the National Federation of the Blind, awarded during its 64th annual convention in Atlanta. A 2004 graduate of Nashville’s Hillsboro High School, Lawless plans to double-major in German and psychology at Belmont. “I automatically got a wonderful feeling about Belmont,” Lawless told The Tennessean. “All the students and teachers have been so friendly and accomodating.”
Belmont Junior at GOP Convention
Rising junior Meredith Edwards, 20, will be a page at the Republican National Convention in New York City beginning August 30. As a page, Edwards will distribute papers and assist with other duties as assigned for Tennessee delegates to the convention. Edwards is a political science and history major.
In The News: A Grant for Entrepreneurship Program
Belmont business program gets grant – Nashville City Paper
New Cornwall Commentary Published in Nashville Business Journal
Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont University, has a commentary in Friday edition of Nashville Business Journal titled “Businesses need to think about ‘What if?'” You can read it online here. Cornwall, meanwhile, reports from New Orleans that entrepreneurship education is a growth industry.
Massey MBA Applications Up as Belmont Bucks National Trend
The Tennessean reports today that applications for admission to MBA programs at business schools in Tennessee and nationally are down this year, thanks to “a brighter job market and tougher rules for foreign students entering U.S. colleges.” But while fewer people are applying to most MBA schools, applications for the MBA program at Belmont’s Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business are up 25 percent for this fall compared to one year ago.
Entrepreneurship Program In The News
Belmont Gets $40,000 Grant From Foundation – The Tennessean
Entrepreneurship Program Receives Grant To Enhance Student Businesses Hatchery, Education Program
Belmont University’s fast-growing entrepreneurship program at Belmont University has received a $40,000 grant from the Coleman Foundation. Part of this grant will be used to fund the creation of a second student business “hatchery” on campus. The remainder of the grant will support the Entrepreneurship Across Belmont initiative that is seeking to integrate entrepreneurship education to reach students from a variety of academic majors outside the College of Business, including students choosing a formal minor in Entrepreneurship and students taking advantage of the many co-curricular programs offered through the Center for Entrepreneurship.
Cusic On TV
A special four part series on “The History of Country Music” will be
shown on CMT beginning August 5. The show was produced by the BBC and featured Dr. Don Cusic, author and professor of music business at the Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University, was interviewed by the BBC for the program. Dr. Cusic also recently taped an interview with a television crew from Japan for a television special to air in Japan on “The History of Gospel Music.” He and Belmont University recently hosted the 21st Annual International Country Music Conference.
