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.
Belmont’s Ocean Way Studio Receives Major Technical Award
October 29, 2003 – Belmont University’s Ocean Way Nashville recording studio has received a TEC Award, presented by Mix magazine and the Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio. The awards were presented at the 19th Annual Technical Excellence and Creativity Awards, sponsored by Mix magazine, October 11 at the New York Marriott Marquis hotel’s Broadway Ballroom. The TEC creative award for record production was for work on Sheryl Crow’s album C’mon C’mon.
Ocean Way Nashville, also was recently named the Top Country Recording Studio, as announced in the September 27, 2003 edition of Billboard magazine, the fourth straight year Ocean Way Nashville has won that designation.
Belmont University acquired Ocean Way Nashville, an 1850’s-era church-turned-recording studio, in 2001, making it part of the school’s fast-growing recording and music business program. Ocean Way also continues to operate as a commercial studio. Among the big hits recorded there recently: Darryl Worley’s “Have You Forgotten?,” Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American),” Joe Nichol’s “Brokenheartsville” George Strait’s “She’ll Leave You With A Smile,” and Tim McGraw’s “Unbroken.”
Also this year, Ocean Way Nashville was named Nashville’s Best Studio by Music Row Magazine, based on votes by subscribers.
The photo shows Belmont University music business professor Wes Bulla (center, rear) and the staff of Belmont’s Ocean Way Nashville recording studio showing off their 2003 TEC Award. From Left to right: Engineers: Leslie Richter, Bryan Graban, Julie Brakey; Director: Wesley Bulla; Exec. Asst: Heather Kerr; Tech. Engineer: Sal Greco; Manager: Sharon Corbitt; Accountant: April Presley
