Belmont University’s School of Nursing will share $1 million in scholarship aid from HCA Inc. as part of the hospital company’s settlement of a long-running medical billing lawsuit, accroding to today’s Tennessean. Belmont will recieve one third of that sum, with two other Nashville schools’ nursing programs also sharing in the settlement. The Tennessean reports the payments would stem from HCA’s settlement of a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Nashville by several hundred health and welfare funds throughout the country that primarily provide health and retirement coverage to union members. The settlement must be approved by the court.
Quoted: Professor Don Cusic
Belmont University music business professor Don Cusic is quoted in an Associated Press story today about the start of the Music Row Murder trial today in Nashville.
MEDIA ALERT: Curb Caf
NASHVILLE, September 18, 2003
From Music Row to Belmont: Why Don Cook teaches
Nashville record producer Don Cook, an adjunct faculty member at Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, says he teaches at Belmont in part to change students’ minds about the legality and ethics of online music trading. Today’s Nashville City Paper has a profile of Cook at work in his Belmont classroom.
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Belmont Christmas concert previewed
Nashville City Paper puts a story about the upcoming Amy Grant and Vince Gill Christmas Show concert at Belmont University’s Curb Event Center on its front page
The 19-city tour called Simply Christmas with Amy Grant and Vince Gill also will feature comedian Henry Cho and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra. Previous venues of the event include The Ryman Auditorium and Gaylord Entertainment Center. Belmont Director of Communications Greg Pillon said the university hopes to make the event a permanent line-up for its Curb Event Center, at 1900 Belmont Boulevard, which officially opened last week.
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Enrollment increase looking better all the time
The Tennessean reports that Belmont University has set a new record for enrollment – while the University of Tennessee sees a big drop.
Belmont to Host Crucial Pretest for New CPA Exam
NASHVILLE, September 12, 2003
Will Belmont land a Presidential Debate?
Nashville’s NewsChannel5 reports on the friendly competition between Belmont University and another local university to host a 2004 Presidential Debate. Both universities are finalists. Belmont would host the debate in its new Curb Event Center, a modern facility that would offer politicians and journalists an array of amenities in a facility with post-September 11 high-tech security. The other proposal would put the debate in the century-old Ryman Auditorium. Click the link to the NewsChannel5 story, and then click the video link on their web page to watch the story.
Beaman/Curb/Maddox opening makes page one
Nashville City Paper gives page one coverage to the opening of the Beaman Student Life Center, Curb Event Center, and Maddox Grand Atrium at Belmong University.
Nashville businessman Lee Beaman, music mogul Mike Curb and Tommye Maddox Working of the Maddox Foundation, the primary donors to the project, cut the ribbon at the opening of the Curb Event Center, the Beaman Student Life Center and the Maddox Grand Atrium.
“I remember six or seven years ago, the vision that God gave to Bill Troutt and Margaret Maddox to build a place like this,
Belmont Opens $52m Arena, Atrium and Student Life Complex
Belmont University has cut the ribbon to open the largest construction project in the university’s history. The grand $52 million three-building complex rising from the southwestern corner of the campus includes a 5,000-seat arena, a grand atrium for hosting large events, and a new center for student life.
“We have opened the door to the next chapter of Belmont’s history,” said Belmont University President Dr. Robert Fisher.
“The Beaman Student Life Center, Curb Event Center and Maddox Grand Atrium are not just new buildings but new building blocks of Belmont’s future. In much the same way that past graduates of Belmont have fond remembrances of cheering victories at Striplin Gym, future graduates will fondly remember games and other events in the Curb Event Center, “hanging out” in the Beaman Student Life Center and formal dinners in the Maddox Grand Atrium. We believe our students and our community will find that these facilities rate among the finest in the world.”
Construction of the three buildings began in the summer of 2001. A new 836-space parking garage adjacent to the Curb Event Center opened one year ago.
The Beaman Student Life Center
The Beaman Student Life Center, funded in part by a $9 million donation from Sally Beaman, the widow of Nashville business leader Alvin G. Beaman, brings Belmont students a vastly improved collection of student life amenities.
The Beaman Student Life Center, with its centerpiece rock-climbing wall, offers attractive casual seating areas, a full-court basketball gymnasium, two indoor racquetball courts, dedicated aerobics room, weight rooms, offices and meeting rooms for student organizations, student locker rooms and a convenience store.
The Beaman Student Life Center is equipped with wireless Internet access.
The Curb Event Center
The Curb Event Center, funded by a $10 million donation from the Curb Family Foundation and well-known music executive Mike Curb, is the new home of the NCAA, Division I Belmont Bruin basketball teams and will host the 2004 Atlantic Sun Men’s Basketball Tournament.
The Curb Event Center arena has 5,000 permanent seats in an oval configuration, and a permanent maple hardwood floor, with adjacent offices, locker rooms, training rooms, weight rooms and facilities for the Belmont Bruins athletics program, and facilities for visiting teams.
The Curb Event Center is designed also to host major music and entertainment events – concerts, speakers, road shows, trade shows, and corporate events – and is wired to support live television broadcast from a dedicated TV control room and numerous permanent camera platforms. The Curb Event Center also includes space for student-run retail businesses, and houses the Curb Cafe a restaurant and entertainment venue for students and the community, and the Vince Gill Room, a penthouse meeting room offering outdoor rooftop dining.
Designed to be a secure environment in the post-September 11 world, the Curb Event Center is equipped with video surveillance cameras, motion sensors, pressure-sensitive detectors, and entry/exit alarms. The Curb Event Center has the ability to secure specific facility areas and control zone-to-zone access.
The Maddox Grand Atrium
The Maddox Grand Atrium, funded by a $5.5 million donation from the Maddox Foundation, is an expansive anteroom finished with polished terrazzo flooring, rich cherry-stained wood and moldings, ceramic tiles, and elegant art works. The Maddox Grand Atrium will be used for receptions, dinners and concerts.
The Maddox Foundation is named in honor of the late Dan and Margaret Maddox. Robin Costa, executive trustee of the foundation, and Tommye Maddox Working, granddaughter of the Maddoxes, are both Belmont University regents.
The Architect
The Beaman/Curb/Maddox complex was designed by the architects at Earl Swensson Associates, Inc. (ESa), based in Nashville. ESa provides design services in architecture, interior architecture, master planning and space planning. ESa projects have included educational facilities, hospitality venues, public spaces, medical facilities, senior living communities, and corporate office buildings. Since its founding in 1961, ESa has designed more than 8,000 projects across the country and abroad. The firm is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council.
The Builder
The Beaman Student Life Center, Curb Event Center and Maddox Grand Atrium were constructed by Hardaway Construction Corporation of Tennessee, a Nashville-based construction company that has built a number of high-profile buildings in the Nashville area since its founding in 1924, including the Nashville International Airport terminal, the Tennessee Capitol Bicentennial Mall and large sections of the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center.
