Caterpillar Financial, a client of Belmont University’s Center for Professional Development, has become the first Nashville company to win the Malcom Baldrige National Quality Award from the National Institute of Standards & Technology. Belmont management professor Dr. Susan Williams comments on the award in this story from today’s Tennessean.
Belmont Launches National Search for Next School of Religion Dean
Belmont University has begun a national search for the next dean of the university’s School of Religion. The current dean, Dr. Steven H. Simpler, professor of religion, previously announced he will step down at the close of the 2003-2004 academic year, though he will continue to teach full time in the School of Religion. He has served as the Dean of the School of Religion since 1990.
Brad Paisley Receives Distinguished Alumni Award
Country music superstar Brad Paisley received Belmont University’s Distinguished Alumni Award during Homecoming festivities Nov. 22. Paisley, who graduated from Belmont in 1995 with a Bachelor of Business Administration, majored in music business at Belmont’s Mike Curb School of Music Business.
Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame to Induct Wiseman
Betty Wiseman, former long-time coach of the Belmont University women’s basketball team, will be inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame at its Induction Banquet and Dinner Feb. 27, 2004, in Nashville, along with ten other inductees. Wiseman established the Belmont women’s basketball team program in 1968, one of the first collegiate women’s basketball programs in Tennessee.
12th Annual Vince Gill Celebrity Basketball Game, Concert Set
The 12th annual Vince Gill Celebrity Basketball Game and Concert is scheduled for Monday, March 22, 2004, at the Curb Event Center. The event is an annual scholarship fundraiser sponsored by the Belmont University Athletics department and College of Music Business.
Belmont Spanish Students Help Build Habitat House
Students from Belmont University Spanish classes and members of the Hispanic Achievers organization worked with the Nashville Hispanic community on a Habitat for Humanity Home this past weekend.
Belmont’s Christmas Gift to Nashville: Five Free Concerts
Belmont University announces a Christmas gift to the Nashville community: five free concerts, including one that will be nationally televised on PBS.
Belmont Journalism Students Cover ONA Conference
The future of news in a digital, converged-media age was the topic of much discussion at the Online News Association’s 2003 Conference and Awards Banquet in Chicago, where two Belmont University journalism students helped produce the written and video news coverage of the event. Here’s a web page listing more coverage of blog-related ONA events. Some of the stories were written by Belmont University journalism students Chasity Gunn, news editor for the Vision, and Amanda Wheeler, arts & entertainment editor for the Vision.
Brad Paisley To Receive Distinguished Alumni Award
Country music superstar Brad Paisley will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from Belmont University at a banquet during Homecoming festivities. Paisley, who graduated from Belmont in 1995 with a Bachelor of Business Administration, majored in music business at Belmont’s Mike Curb School of Music Business.
Israeli Scholar to Speak at Belmont on Islamic Fundamentalism
Dr. Meir Litvak, senior lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University in Israel, will speak at Belmont University in Nashville on Wednesday, Nov. 19. His topic: Why do Muslim Fundamentalists Have Such a Strong Dislike for the US and Israel?
