Best-selling author Carol Grace Anderson will speak at the Women’s Leadership Workshop, hosted by the Center for Entreneurship’s Women’s Programs at Belmont University.
Tennis athletes honored for academics
BPSports.net spotlights the academic achievements of Belmont University athletes with a story about Belmont men
Dr. Bennett’s Op-Ed on Media Consolidation Published
Dr. Sybril Bennett, executive director of Belmont University’s New Century Journalism program, has a commentary published in the journal Black Issues in Higher Education regarding the Federal Communication Commission’s recent decision to allow for greater consolidation in ownership of media properties. An excerpt:
At the corporate level, partnerships, mergers and/or cross-ownership could mean increased newspaper circulation and revenues. The trend may also boost enrollment at journalism schools. Many are revamping their programs to address the need for students who can successfully perform in converged newsrooms. It all sounds great but a concern should be that the number of Black students choosing to major in journalism has been declining for years. At the same time, many veteran Black journalists are leaving news organizations in quantifiable numbers. In other words, the pipeline is losing water from both ends and the timing couldn
New Business Dean Tennessean’s Top Business Story
The Tennessean introduces Nashville to the new dean of Belmont University’s College of Business Administration, Dr. J. Patrick Raines.
Raines is particularly interested in bringing to Belmont aspects of the latter program, which created a specialized MBA for employees of large Richmond-based corporations, such as Capital One, the large credit card company. Besides taking traditional graduate business courses, students’ curriculum was supplemented with more in-depth studies on topics considered key to their employer, such as financial management in the case of Capital One or supply chain management for a manufacturing firm.
”I think there is a real opportunity with the corporate environment that exists in Nashville to customize an MBA program for a single corporation,” Raines said in a telephone interview late last week.
Raines also said he is impressed with the size and scope of Nashville’s entertainment and health-care industries and hopes to further Belmont’s efforts to offer specialized studies in those areas. He also sees opportunities to enhance the school’s programs for full-time executives.
Belmont President Robert Fisher said Raines was a ”perfect match” because he shares the university’s interest in fostering entrepreneurship and business innovation, a legacy he said started with Jack Massey, the legendary businessman whose financial support helped Belmont launch its graduate business program in 1986.
You can read the press release here.
Raines Named New Dean of Belmont College of Business
NASHVILLE, August 4, 2003 – Dr. J. Patrick Raines has been named the new Dean of the Belmont University College of Business Administration, which includes Belmont’s undergraduate business program and the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business Administration.
Raines is currently a professor of economics and holder of the F. Carlyle Tiller Chair in Business at the Robins School of Business at the private University of Richmond, where he has taught since 1982. Dr. Raines holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D, all in economics, from the University of Alabama.
Belmont University President Dr. Robert Fisher says Dr. Raines brings to Belmont a wealth of academic experience and credentials, and an entrepreneurial edge, making him the right person to lead Belmont’s undergraduate and graduate business programs.
“His credentials speak for themselves,” says Fisher. “And his leadership of the University of Richmond’s innovative Corporate MBA program is the kind of leadership that will take Belmont’s Massey Graduate School of Business to the next level. We are delighted to have Dr. Raines join the Belmont family.”
At the University of Richmond, Dr. Raines directed an innovative Corporate MBA program that provides an accelerated weekend MBA education with a customized curriculum for employees of such companies as Capital One. Raines explains that Capital One had input into developing customized curriculum for its employees, to better fit the needs of the employees and Capital One.
Dr. Raines says he sees much opportunity in Nashville for similar programs at Belmont.
“It’s an exciting opportunity for me to be a part of an institution that is continually striving to improve the quality of education it provides to students, its facilities, and the quality of scholar educators it is attracting to campus,” Raines said. “My wife Judy and I are ecstatic about moving to Nashville and becoming an integral part of the community.
Dr. Raines’ first book, Economists On the Stock Market: Speculative Theories of Stock Market Fluctuations, co-authored with University of Alabama economist Dr. Charles Leathers, was published in the spring of 2000
City Paper reports on Curb progress
The Nashville City Paper reports on the nearly-completed Curb Event Center, Beaman Student Life Center and Maddox Grand Atrium, the grand new complex anchoring the southwest corner of the Belmont University campus.
Online Ad Controversy
Belmont University is one of a handful of Nashville universities upset with how an online university based in Wyoming is hijacking other universities’ names in its online advertising on the Google search website. Nashville City Paper has the details.
Triplets’ Graduation Makes Hometown Paper
The Gainesville Times in Gainesville, Ga., reports on hometown triplets, Jaclyn, Jessica and Jocelyn Kerr, recent graduates of Belmont University.
The Kerrs, who have no other children, moved to their Pine Vale Road home about one year ago from Kentucky, where the daughters lived when they decided to attend Belmont, all on scholarships. At the time, the triplets also entertained scholarship offers from Tennessee Tech and Western Kentucky University. “Belmont was their fantasy place to go, so when the doors opened up for all of them to go there, that’s the place they chose,” Kerr said.
The siblings’ strikingly similar lives don’t end there. All three competed on the high school swim team, with each sibling cultivating a favorite stroke. They were members of the Belmont Bruins Dance Team. They received Dean’s List recognition all eight semesters and are members of Sigma Beta Delta, Alpha Chi and Beta Gamma Sigma honor societies. Also, each received the Massey School of Business Outstanding Student of the Year award for 2003.
Paisley Plays Show at Home
The Wheeling, W.Va. newspaper reports on Belmont grad and country music star Brad Paisley’s concert in his hometown:
Paisley’s rise to fame has been well-documented on the Ohio Valley scene, as he spent much time performing throughout the Ohio Valley, before attending West Liberty State College for two years and then deciding to move to Nashville, where he attended Belmont University, while honing his songwriting skills and earning extra money by singing and playing on demos. Paisley signed a songwriting deal only one month after his graduation from Belmont, and here he is.
