NASHVILLE, Sept. 2, 2003 – Belmont University is one of a few Tennessee private universities participating in the Independent 529 Plan, a program designed to help parents of future college students prepay tuition and save money in the process.
Record Fall at Belmont: Enrollment Tops 3,660 and Keeps Climbing
NASHVILLE, August 28, 2003
University Buys Adjacent Church Property
NASHVILLE, August 27, 2003
First Belmont Students Begin Studying at Historic RCA Studio B
NASHVILLE, August 22, 2003 – It’s the place where Elvis Presley recorded Are You Lonesome Tonight? and It’s Now or Never, and 200 other songs. It’s where Dolly Parton recorded the country classic Jolene, and Roy Orbison put Only the Lonely and many of his other pop smashes down on tape.
What can you learn from a place like that? Students enrolled in Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business will find out starting this fall semester as the historic RCA Studio B on Nashville’s famed Music Row becomes a Belmont University classroom. There, where students enrolled in the university’s recording program will study recording techniques in a legendary setting that is laden with pop music history and oozes cool.
Save the Dates! New Complex Opening Events Slated
Belmont University will soon celebrate the completion of the Curb Event Center, the Maddox Grand Atrium, and the Beaman Student Life Center, the grand new complex on the campus’s southwestern corner. Several events are planned. Here is a tentative list – dates and times may change.
Belmont Called “Top Tier” University
U.S. News & World Report has once again ranked Belmont University in the top tier of quality among “America’s Best Colleges.” The 2004 edition of its annual college guide is scheduled to hit newsstands Monday. Belmont was ranked 21st overall among the 131 schools in the 11-state South region of the “Best Universities-Master’s” category, again placing it in the top tier of quality.
In this category, Belmont is the highest-ranked university in Tennessee. On some of the most important indicators used to determine the ranking, Belmont has improved over the previous year. Both freshman to sophomore retention and graduation rates are up, and, early indications for this Fall are that they will continue to trend upward. Belmont’s student-faculty ratio remains one of the best in the South at 12 to 1, and the university has increased the percentage of faculty who are full-time.
State of the University Address Scheduled
All Belmont University staff and faculty are invited to attend university President Dr. Robert Fisher’s State of the University address at 8 a.m. Monday, August 25, in the Massey Performing Arts Center. “I want to bring everyone up-to-date on the exciting things taking place on our campus and share some important details as we begin the fall semester,” says Dr. Fisher. Light refreshments will be available in the courtyard outside of MPAC starting at 7:30 that morning.
Russian Impressionism Art Exhibition Website Launched
There is now a website featuring a dozen images of works of art to be displayed at Belmont’s Leu Art Gallery in September. You can view the images at http://forum.belmont.edu/artshow.
