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Mark Wins NCAA Scholar of the Year Honor
Belmont University men’s baskbetall player Adam Mark was named male Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the NCAA Division I-AAA Athletics Directors Association. Mark, a senior, helped re-write the Belmont and Atlantic Sun Conference record books. He ranks in the top-10 in three statistical categories while scoring nearly 1600 career points to rank 15th in school history. This season, Mark became the first player in A-Sun history to lead the league in field goal percentage three straight seasons. Full story here.
Classroom American Idol? Class Mirrors Music Industry
An innovative class at Belmont University is taking on a bit of the look of American Idol as students work to select, develop and promote two musical artists who will be featured in a live showcase April 22 at the Curb Caf
Music Business Student Quoted in AP Story
Belmont University student David Cook, president of the Belmont University Copyright Society and a student in the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, is quoted in an Associated Press story about the troubled state of the music industry economy for Nashville’s songwriters. The story ran in USA Today and numerous other publications and online media, including the Miami Herald, FOX News, the Rapid City Journal, New York Newsday, the Montgomery County Record, the Chicago Tribune, MLive.com, the Orlando Sentinel, the New Orleans Times Picayune, tje Tuscaloosa News, the Hartford Courant, MSNBC.com, the Wyoming News, the Kansas City Star, the Biloxi Sun Herald, the Springfield, Ohio, News Sun, the Porterville, Calif., Recorder, the Jackson, Tenn., Sun, the Seattle Post Intelligencer, and the San Jose Mercury News.
Speech and Debate Team Defends Title at NCCFI
The Belmont Speech and Debate team successfully defended its Division II national title at the NCCFI national tournament held in March at Cedarville University. The NCCFI Is the National Christian College Forensics Invitational.
Cusic Book In the News
Nashville City Paper interviews Belmont University music business professor Don Cusic about his new book, Baseball and Country Music. Cusic signs copies of the book at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Nashville Tuesday night.
Belmont Has Hart
The Tennessean previews the Frederick Hart sculpture exhibition opening Sunday, March 28, at Belmont University. The exhibition, The Creative Spirit: The Sculpture of Frederick Hart runs through May 28.
Business Ethics Seminar in the News
The Tennessee Register previews the upcoming half-day seminar, Integrating Faith & Work: Building Your Business on a Solid Moral Foundation, sponsored by the Belmont University Center for Entrepreneurship and the Center for Business Ethics, scheduled for April 1.
Cusic Book Signing Scheduled
Belmont University music business professor Dr. Don Cusic will sign copies of his new book, Baseball and Country Music, at an appearance at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Nashville at 6 p.m., March 30.
Belmont Completes Evaluation Process for NCAA Division 1 Certification
Belmont University has completed the evaluation process for NCAA Division 1 certification. The NCAA Peer review team was on campus February 16 through February 19, 2004 for Belmont’s evaluation visit. The following team members were assigned to evaluate the institution.
Mr. David Hager, Vice Provost, Old Dominion University
Ms. Susan Anfin, Compliance Coordinator, Winthrop University
Dr. Allision Freedman, Associate Athletics Director, University of the Pacific (California)
Mr. Bill McGillis, Director of Athletics, University of Evansville
Dr. Michael J. Ross, Prof. of Psychology, Saint Louis University
The results of the visit will be announced after the NCAA Division 1 Committee on Athletics Certification renders its decision.
Click here to download Belmont’s NCAA Division 1 Athletics Certification Self Study in a 254-page PDF file.
