Sen. John Kerry, a candidate for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, will make a campaign appearance on the campus of Belmont University this Saturday, February 7. The event will take place at 8:30 a.m. in the Maddox Grand Atrium. This visit does not represent an endorsement of any presidential candidate or party. Belmont University welcomes the opportunity for its students to experience political debate and the national election process up close, and looks forward to more visits to campus by presidential candidates in the future.
The event is free and open to the public.
Mentioned in: the Knoxville News Sentinel
Candidate Kerry Comes to Belmont
Innovative Political Science Class Makes News
An innovative political science class at Belmont University, taught by Dr. Vaughn May, gets feature coverage from The Tennessean today.
May, an assistant professor of political science in his first year at Belmont, said he hoped for such discussions when he thought up the first-time night class. For the past three Wednesdays, the 24 students have been able to discuss that week’s primaries and caucuses and the emerging political dynamics.
“It makes the students more enthusiastic about what’s going on,” May said while students finished an exam during the first half of the four-hour once-a-week class. “We timed it just right.”
The story is not on The Tennessean’s website, but you can view the clipping.
Belmont Project Up for a Grammy
In Bright Mansions, an album featuring the famed Fisk Jubilee Singers that was produced by Belmont University
Spring Enrollment Record at Belmont
Belmont University reports record enrollment for the spring semester, powered by large numbers of new mid-year graduate and undergraduate transfer students and a high rate of retaining freshman who enrolled in the fall. Belmont has enrolled 3,477 students this spring, 13 percent more than one year ago. In addition, 561 of its fall enrollment of 603 freshmen have returned for the spring semester, a 93 percent retention rate.
“Improved retention is a clear indication of Belmont’s commitment to student success and of student satisfaction with Belmont’s educational programs and student life,” said Belmont University Provost Dan McAlexander. The high fall-to-spring retention rate positions Belmont for achieving a record high freshman-to-sophomore retention rate in the fall of 2004, he said.
One of Nation’s Leading Online Journalists to Speak at Belmont
Rob Curley, general manager of World Online, the Internet division of The Lawrence Journal-World in Lawrence, Kans., will speak at Belmont University on Monday Feb. 2, on the subject of Online Journalism: Interactivity, Innovation and Inspiration, as part of the university’s New Century Journalism Speakers Series. Curley, previously the manager of content development for Morris Digital Works, a part if Morris Communications since 1996. His team has developed the national newspaper web site of the year as named by either the Newspaper Association of America or Editor & Publisher magazine every year since 1998.
Suntrust Banks to Be Title Sponsor for 2004 A-Sun Tournament
Belmont University and SunTrust Banks have signed an agreement designating the company as title sponsor of the 2004 SunTrust Banks Atlantic Sun Men’s Basketball Championship, , to be played at Belmont’s 5000-seat Curb Event Center on Belmont’s Nashville campus. The winner of the 2004 SunTrust Banks A-Sun Men’s Basketball Championship will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. For ticket information, contact the Curb Event Center Box Office at 615-460-8500.
Belmont Director of Athletics Mike Strickland said, “Anytime that you can partner with a company the caliber of SunTrust Banks, it is exciting. Corporate sponsorship is a major key to hosting a successful championship and with the addition of SunTrust Banks, the 2004 A-Sun Men’s Basketball Championship is poised to make it a terrific weekend in Nashville.”
Belmont Faculty Member on New CMT Reality Show
Belmont University School of Music faculty member Ellen Tift will be appearing on the pilot for Score, a new reality show on CMT (Country Music Television), Feb. 9 at 7:30 PM EST, 6:30 CST. The pilot for the show, which could become a recurring series, features Tift as a professional songwriter heading up one of two teams to write a song in four hours. She is partnered with a bachelor who is competing against the bachelor of the other team to capture the attention of the show’s bachelorette.
Dr. Julianne Malveaux speaks at Belmont University
By Chasity Ann Gunn
Belmont University student journalist
The distortion of the lives of the Negro is as old as the first textbook and as new as today’s newspaper.” This was a 1963 quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used by Dr. Julianne Malveaux in her academic lecture, Covering diverse communities in the news.
” Malveaux was the second speaker in the ongoing New Century Journalism Speaker’s Series, and also spoke on the Belmont campus as part of Martin Luther King Day events.
Malveaux is an internationally known economist, former educator, journalist, commentator and syndicated columnist. Her work is regularly featured in USA Today, Black Issues in Higher Education, Ms. Magazine and Essence Magazine. She has appeared on CNN, BET, C-SPAN, MSNBC, CNBC and many others. In addition, she has hosted talk radio programs in Washington, San Francisco and New York.
Belmont University Offers New “Fast Track” To Nursing Degree
The Belmont University School of Nursing is moving to help address the state’s growing shortage of nurses, by launching a “fast-track” nursing program that leads to a bachelor of science in nursing degree in as little as 16 months. It is the first program of its kind in Tennessee, says Debra Wollaber, Dean of the Belmont School of Nursing.
Houck Discusses Life as Multimedia Journalist
If you want to be a journalist, you must go back to the basics, good writing and strong storytelling. And it wouldn’t hurt to be aware of how technology changes the way you can tell that story, says Jeff Houck, who has the interesting title of Leisure Team Leader at the Tampa Tribune in Tampa, Florida. Houck spoke Monday, January 26th, at Belmont University as part of the university’s New Century Journalism Speaker’s Series. About 70 administrators, students, staff and journalists filled the Bunch Multimedia Hall on the second floor of the University Library to listen and learn as Houck shared concrete examples of convergence in practice and his firsthand experiences.
