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.
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?
Nashville Financial Industry Leaders to Discuss Future of Industry
Three of Nashville’s most influential financial-industry leaders will speak at Belmont University on Monday, Nov. 17., on The Changing Landscape of the Financial Services Industry. James C. Bradford and Luke Simons, former managing partners of J.C. Bradford & Co., will present a historical perspective on how consolidation and the re-entrance of banks and insurance companies into the securities broker/dealer industry has influenced investment banking and retail and institutional brokerage activities.
Belmont Staffers Win Several PR Awards
Belmont University received several major awards, including the Gold Award for Best of Show, in the statewide communication competition at the annual meeting of the Tennessee College Public Relations Association, In the Best of Show category, the University of Tennessee won the Silver award and Austin Peay State University won the Bronze.
New Entrepreneurship Major Offered at School of Business
The Undergraduate School of Business at Belmont University will begin offering a concentration in Entrepreneurship for Business majors pursuing a BBA, starting with the fall 2004 semester. The entrepreneurship major will prepare students to start their own businesses, work in family or other growing companies, or pursue employment in traditional business settings. A minor in Entrepreneurship will also be offered for students in majors outside of the College of Business.
Belmont Debate Team Finishes Second in Recent Tournament
Belmont University’s speech and debate team finished 2nd overall to current national champion Western Kentucky University at a speech and debate tournament in Owensboro, Kentucky, last weekend. Twenty Belmont students competed in Parliamentary Debate and Individual Speech events.
