Dr. Jeffrey R. Cornwall, a veteran business professor, author of books on entrepreneurship and founder and former CEO of a fast-growing healthcare company, has been appointed as Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship and Director of the Center of Entrepreneurship at Belmont University’s Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business.
As a member of the Massey School faculty, Dr. Cornwall will provide leadership within the overall College of Business Administration with respect to entrepreneurship outreach, research and teaching. Cornwall will also serve as director of the college
Professor-Entrepreneur-Author Joins Belmont Business Faculty
Noted Singer Joins School of Music Faculty
Kathy Chiavola, a Nashville singer who has graced hundreds of recordings by the likes of Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Tammy Wynette, Kathy Mattea, Garth Brooks, Emmylou Harris, and Bill Monroe, has is joining the faculty of the Belmont University School of Music starting with the fall 2003 semester as an adjunct instructor of voice. She earned both her Master of Music in voice and Bachelor of Music in voice from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and has taught voice privately since 1976. has taught voice privately since 1976.
Chiavola brings a wealth of teaching knowledge to her students. She sings all styles of music from bluegrass to classical and is a highly acclaimed session singer and recording artist. Chiavola was voted 1995’s Outstanding Background Vocalist in the Nashville Music Awards.
Her numerous awards and nominations include 1997 contemporary Vocalist of the Year from the Society For the Preservation of Bluegrass Music; a 1997 nomination for International Artist of the Year on an Independent Label from the British Country Music Awards, nominations in 1998 and 1999 for contemporary Female Vocalist of the Year from the Society for the Preservation for Bluegrass Music.
Chiavola serves on the Board of Directors for the Nashville chapter of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Her debut album, Labor of Love, gathered critical acclaim from various prominent music critics, and her subsequent recordings, The Harvest and From Where I Stand, are likewise critically acclaimed.
For more on Kathy Chiavola, visit www.kathychiavola.com. You can listen to a National Public Radio interview with Chiavola here.
Writing Prof Joins Belmont English Faculty
Belmont University’s Department of English has added a new faculty member for the fall 2003 semester.
Belmont Political Science Welcomes Two to Faculty
Belmont University’s Department of Political Science has added two new faculty members for the fall 2003 semester.
Staff Changes in Belmont Athletic Department
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Fisher Named President of A-Sun Conference
Belmont University’s NCAA Division 1 athletics program continues to rack up impressive wins. Most recently, Belmont President Robert C. Fisher was named President of the Atlantic Sun Conference and Chair of the Presidents Council for the 2003-04 season at the recently concluded meeting of the A-Sun Presidents Council.
Belmont’s Latest Athletic Triumphs Happen in Classrooms
University claims second straight Atlantic Sun academic trophy; bests NCAA Division 1 graduation rate
Belmont University’s NCAA Division 1 athletics program continues to rack up impressive wins.
Sybril Bennett to Lead New Journalism Program
Belmont University has hired Sybril M. Bennett, Ph. D., as executive director to lead the university’s restructured New Century Journalism program. Belmont is revamping its journalism program to meet the multi-faceted needs of media in the digital era.
Bennett, who holds a Ph.D. in higher education from Vanderbilt University, and comes to Belmont from The News Channel 5 Network in Nashville, where she served as reporter, is the perfect choice to lead the New Century Journalism program, says Thom Storey, associate dean of the School of Social Sciences and chairman of the Department of Media Studies. “Dr. Bennett has the perfect blend of experience, in real-world journalism and in higher education, to help lead Belmont’s program.”
Bennett has been in the television news business for more than 10 years with behind the scenes positions at CBS in Chicago and ABC in Milwaukee. She served as a tenure-track assistant professor of electronic media journalism at Middle Tennessee State University, as well as Senior Public Affairs Officer and special assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Media Relations at Vanderbilt University.
This fall, Belmont launches its revamped journalism program, designed to prepare journalists to work in the increasingly digital, multi-media, consolidated business world of the media.
“The journalist of the future is going to be someone who is trained from the beginning to be flexible and work in an environment that mixes digital images, sound, text and the Internet as well as traditional newspapers, magazines and television and radio broadcasts,” says Storey.
Belmont Claims Second Straight Atlantic Sun Academic Trophy
Belmont University picked up its second consecutive Atlantic Sun Conference Academic Champion Trophy, besting its own record of All-Academic honorees set last year by four percent.
Belmont’s Higgins Receives Award for Excellence
Dr. Leslie Higgins, Belmont University’s Director of Graduate Studies in Nursing, has been awarded the Tennessee State Award for Excellence as a Nurse Practitioner. This award is given yearly by the Academy of Nurse Practitioners to someone who displays excellence as a nurse practitioner.
