Belmont hires sports marketing director
Posted on October 22, 2009 at 9:41 am
Jimmy Frush is the new director of athletics marketing for Belmont University. Before serving as director of the Mustang Club for Southern Methodist University and holding various other athletics-related positions, Frush was a pitcher for the Class A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies.
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Where the jobs will have to come from
Posted on October 5, 2009 at 9:52 amBelmont professor Jeff Cornwall says entrepreneurs will — as they have before — be the driving force behind a true recovery, one that really makes a dent in our painfully high unemployment rate.
So all we need is government to do more, and we will be OK? Sorry, neither big government nor big corporations feeding at the government trough have ever brought us out of a recession and into a sustainable recovery.
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Former Belmont president dead at 95
Posted on September 10, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Herbert Gabhart, who led Belmont for more than two decades and has been a chancellor of the university since 1983, died this morning.
When he arrived at Belmont College in 1959, the school’s enrollment was 360 students. When he retired as president in 1982, Belmont’s student population had grown by 500 percent to more than 2,000. He oversaw a budget increase from $480,000 to $8 million, and the campus also saw physical expansion with the addition of nine new buildings, including the Massey Performing Arts Center, Wheeler Humanities building, Hitch Science building, the library, and more. Belmont also expanded academically by adding many majors and degrees, including music, nursing, business and more.
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Belmont tops 5K mark
Posted on August 26, 2009 at 11:08 amAlmost 5,400 students have enrolled at Belmont University for the fall semester, a record number and a rise of about 8 percent from a year ago.
Up a spot
Posted on August 20, 2009 at 8:18 am
Vanderbilt comes in at No. 17 on U.S. News & World Report’s latest ranking of the nation’s top universities. That’s the school’s highest-ever rating, up one position from last year and tied with Rice and Emory.
SEE ALSO: Belmont’s rising regional rank
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Belmont biz school lands international program grant
Posted on August 19, 2009 at 10:11 amFrom the university’s College of Business Administration comes word of a $188,000 check that will fund the expansion of its international business education offerings.
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Belmont still riding debate wave
Posted on August 12, 2009 at 7:23 am
The university’s enrollment is expected to grow for the 10th straight year, helped in no small measure by the presidential candidates’ debate it hosted last fall.
“It will always stand out as one of our most significant moments. It was a chance for us as a university to be an important player on matters of national importance,” said McDonald.
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Belmont an entrepreneurial hotbed
Posted on July 30, 2009 at 12:35 pmThe entrepreneurship students at Belmont’s business school are more than holding their own in The Global Student Entrepreneur Awards.
“I continue to be amazed by the entrepreneurial spirit of our students. We need this generation of entrepreneurs to help us revitalize our economy.”
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Montgomery Bell fund-raiser jumps to Belmont
Posted on July 2, 2009 at 7:27 am
Belmont has a new senior director of development in Kate Mosely. In a release, the university said Mosely will head up fund development and donor stewardship. Most recently, Mosely was the interim director for alumni and development at Montgomery Bell Academy, where she also spent six years as associate director for alumni and development and director of the Annual Fund.
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This year’s HR award winners
Posted on June 3, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Belmont University and First Tennessee Bank have been named the 2009 winners of the eighth annual HR Excellence Program.
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Belmont to house entrepreneurship group
Posted on April 30, 2009 at 11:44 pm
The United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, a “a community of scholars, entrepreneurship program and center directors, government officials, directors of entrepreneurship support organizations and others,” will move to Nashville in 2010 from Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
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Belmont’s bottles on the way out
Posted on April 20, 2009 at 11:31 am
Belmont kicks off its Earth Week by saying bottled waters will be gone from campus in a month.
“Bottled water is shockingly expensive to the consumer and the environment. And given what we know about the quality of water from the tap and in the bottle, it’s completely unnecessary. Recycling the bottles doesn’t solve the larger problem of excessive resources needed to produce and transport something that is solely a convenience.”
Metro and Belmont team up to address teacher shortage
Posted on April 6, 2009 at 4:53 pmFrom a press release:
Nashville Teaching Fellows, an initiative of Metro Nashville Public Schools and The New Teacher Project, announced today a new partnership with Belmont University to train top-notch, effective educators who will teach high-need subjects in difficult-to-staff Metro schools.
Nashville Teaching Fellows is recruiting approximately 75-100 outstanding career professionals and recent college graduates to teach subjects with traditional teacher shortages—such as math, science, Spanish and special education—in high-need schools. After a highly competitive selection process, chosen Fellows will participate in rigorous summer training to prepare them to enter the classroom as teachers in the fall.
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A bunch of economists walk into a blogging convention…
Posted on February 27, 2009 at 1:43 pmThe Kauffman Foundation is bringing together economic bloggers from around the nation. Among them is Belmont professor Jeff Cornwall, author of The Entrepreneurial Mind.
On the other hand, Robert X. Cringely, a blogging pioneer, says the typical impact [of blogs on public policy] is far less dramatic. “It annoys public policymakers and, to a certain extent, makes them think,” says Cringely, “but I think the effect is still muted and the general press has the most impact — for now.”
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Quality improvement group gives award to Belmont prof
Posted on February 9, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Management professor Susan Williams gets an attaboy from the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence, the group that runs the regional Baldridge quality awards.
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