Published: Dr. Jeff Cornwall
Entrepreneurship Program Helps Launch Successful Multimedia Business
Belmont University’s entrepreneurship program, recently ranked a top-10 program nationally by Entrepreneur magazine, has helped the successful launch of a new multimedia company to serve Nashville’s entertainment industry.
Submerge Media is a full-service media company that will provide multimedia services to the greater Nashville area. With specialties in the areas of audio and video production, web and graphic design, and interactive media, Submerge Media aims to be an all-inclusive media provider for its clients offering all services an in-house media department would provide for a larger organization.
Quoted: Dr. Jeff Cornwall at Forbes.com
Forbes.com quotes Dr. Jeff Cornwall, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Belmont, in an article published online today, How to Be Your Own Boss, about the nuts and bolts of starting a business.
Massey MBA Alum Quoted on Women Entrepreneurs
A recent graduate of Belmont’s MBA program is quoted about how the MBA program at the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business prepared her the business world, in a story in the Nashville Business Journal on a study that finds women entrepreneurs are often aggressive risk-takers.
Booming Belmont Works With Neigbors on Land Acquisition
Belmont University’s efforts to work with the neighborhood as it aquires neighboring properties for future growth is described by Nashville Business Journal in a story in this week’s edition, which reports that Belmont has spent $3.4 million to buy 16 neighboring properties in the past two years.
Belmont Praised in Congressional Record
Sen. Lamar Alexander praised Belmont University for its new literature course, The Poetics of Country Music, in remarks delivered in the U.S. Senate May 3, as reproduced here in the Congressional Record.
Book Signing: Dr. James Elliott
Dr. James Elliott, assistant professor of entertainment and music business at Belmont University, will join co-author Scott Roley for a booksigning Saturday, June 26, at Franklin Booksellers, for their new book, God’s Neighborhood, published recently by InterVarsity Press. Subtitled A Hopeful Journey in Racial Reconciliation & Community Renewal, the book shares how experiences with Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy helped Roley transition from a career as an up-and–coming contemporary Christian music singer and songwriter to a new career as a community leader and activist working in community development and renewal.
Featured: Dr. Don Cusic
Dr. Don Cusic, author and professor of music business at the Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University, will be featured on an upcoming edition of the Nashville Public Television show A Word on Words hosted by prominent Nashville journalist John Seigenthaler. Cusic and Seigenthaler discuss Cusic’s most recently published book, Baseball and Country Music. Air date for the program has not yet been set.
Published: Jeff Hunter
Jeff Hunter, general manager of Belmont’s Curb Event Center, has an article published in the June/July issue of Facilities Manager magazine about the care and feeding of student workers in university facilities such as the Curb.
On Tour: Dr. Jeffrey Coker
Dr. Jeffrey W. Coker, an assistant professor of history at Belmont University, spent two days in early June in the European nation of Montenegro (formerly part of Yugoslavia) giving series of public lectures in four Montenegrin towns about American society and values. The lectures covered various aspects of U.S. society from the historical perspective, ranging from democracy, the political system and history to popular culture and the U.S. role in the World. Dr. Coker’s visit was funded by the U.S. Consulate in Podgorica, Montenegro. You can see a more complete report with pictures at the Consulate’s web site.
