Category: Academic Anouncements
To take advantage of priority registration, your fall balance must be paid in full. Priority Registration - spring 2010: November 16-December 11, 2009. Payment Deadline - spring 2010: January 4, 2010.
Administrative Computing will be performing a mandatory upgrade to Banner beginning Wednesday, October 14th at 4:30pm and lasting through Tuesday, October 20th at 8:00am. This upgrade has been carefully planned to reduce the impact on students, faculty and staff. All Banner systems (Banner forms, BannerWeb or self-service, Banner imaging – WebX and application xtender,) will be unavailable during this time. Any systems that interface with Banner will not be able to send or receive data during this time, but will otherwise remain available with the exception of Course Evaluations and DARS.
Blackboard will be available.
The Office of General Education is now accepting nominations for the 2010-2011 First Year Seminar Common Book. As you know, each year at Belmont all entering students read a book in common as part of their First Year Seminar experience. Since 2004, students have read a variety of books that fall under the broad theme of FYS, “Ways of Knowing.” Among these have been titles such as:
Eva Hoffman, After Such Knowledge
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
James Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me
Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma (the common book for the current academic year)
Beginning last year, the FYS Common Book, while focused on the theme “Ways of Knowing,” also has been connected to the annual theme of our campus-wide conversation, Belmont Questions. This year’s common book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, fits well with the campus theme, “A Paradise Lost?”
The Belmont Questions theme for 2010-2011 will be “Invention and Creativity.” Click here to download a brief description that should yield for you, well, Invention and Creativity! Much more information and conversation regarding next year’s theme will take place later this year.
In the meantime, however, we are ready to begin the selection process for the 2010-2011 common book. We ask that your nominations fit the “Ways of Knowing” theme of FYS and also, preferably, tie in to the campus theme of “Invention and Creativity.” Click here to download nomination form.
All members of the Belmont community—faculty, staff and students—are encouraged to submit nominations for the FYS common book. Your nominations are very important, as we view the selection of a common book each year as very much a campus-wide effort.
The deadline for submitting nominations is Wed., Oct. 21. You should submit your nominations electronically to Jennifer Wells, in the Office of the Provost: jennifer.wells@belmont.edu.
The FYS common book selection committee will then begin reviewing nominations with the goal of announcing a decision in January. Faculty members, please encourage your students to participate in the process.
A little more than two months ago, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that Belmont's Curb Event Center would host the Oct. 7, 2008 Town Hall Presidential Debate. Since that announcement, several university teams have been formed that include students, faculty, staff and community representatives to focus on everything from logistics and programming to marketing/communication and community involvement.
There is plenty to be excited about. Naturally, one of our top priorities at Belmont University is to provide an academically challenging education to our students. Every college, school, department and class will be participating in some fashion in a celebration this coming year of the American political system, all based around themes of freedom, Presidential elections and the American identity. Soon, we will begin to announce a superb line-up of speakers and special event programming that will enable us all—students, faculty, staff and the local community—to engage in the history of our political system and to learn more about the democratic process. This will be a comprehensive experience for Belmont University, with every academic discipline involved in the dialogue.
Of course, an event of this size and intensity will require some flexibility by our campus. In order to ensure the least amount of disruption to our class schedules and instruction time, senior leadership has made an alteration to the academic calendar for the fall semester. Fall Break—originally scheduled for Thurs, Oct. 16-Fri., Oct. 17—will be moved to Mon., Oct. 6-Wed., Oct. 8, the days around the Town Hall Debate. This change was deemed necessary because of the spaces required for the event. No classes will be held during these three days, with the exception of Wednesday evening classes which will be held as scheduled. We are in the process of considering how we will make up the extra MWF class that will be lost due to the extension of Fall Break to three days. Over the next few weeks, we will solicit input regarding possible solutions to that issue.
We recognize that there are many questions regarding the logistics of the Town Hall Presidential Debate. We do not have answers to many of those questions and may not have additional information for some time. As you might imagine, security considerations will dictate what we know, and therefore what we can share. We certainly want this debate to be safe and secure for these candidates, one of whom will be our next President. We would ask the entire Belmont community to exercise as much patience as possible as we await the arrival of what will surely be the Super Bowl of American politics.
You may find additional information at these sites: http://forum.belmont.edu/umac/archives/008300.html (link includes an overview of the press conference announcement from last fall as well as a student-produced video of the event) and the Commission on Presidential Debates at www.debates.org. As we move forward with planning and programming, we encourage your input and suggestions at debate08@mail.belmont.edu. In addition, the President’s office is scheduling an “FAQ Session” for faculty and staff as well as an “Ask Dr. Fisher” session for Belmont students for this semester. These sessions will provide the community the opportunity to ask questions about this process, as well as to learn more about other Belmont University concerns you may have.
Sincerely,
Dr. Dan McAlexander
Provost
Meeting -- WHB 209 at 10 a.m. on Wed., Jan. 23. Application deadline is Feb. 1.
Spend June 30- August 3 in France, and earn 6 credit hours in French. Come find out more about our summer program in France's beautiful Loire river valley.
Faculty contacts: Dr. Cheryl Geer (geerc@mail.belmont.edu) or Dr. John Paine (painej@mail.belmont.edu).
For more information, download the attached file.
The Regions Bank Outstanding Belmont Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award offers a First Place prize of $5,000, with second and third place prizes of $2,000 and $1,000 respectively. The competition is open to any currently enrolled Belmont undergraduate student. All finalists are required to present their business plans to a committee of community judges in a formal competition on Mon., March 17. All written plans are due by Feb. 15 to Becky Gann, MBC 431. Students are required to exhibit proof that he/she through his/her own creative initiative is in the process of starting or is already operating an entrepreneurial business venture. For additional information, contact Becky Gann at gannb@mail.belmont.edu or x6601.
All written business plan submissions will include the following:
Executive Summary
Mission and Vision, Goals and Description of the Business
Marketing Plan
Operating Plan
Finance Plan
Growth Plan
Financial Reports (historical if applicable and projected: cash flow statement, income statement, balance sheet, and use for funds and possible exit strategies)
Please note:
Plans should be double spaced using a 12 point Times New Roman font and 1 inch margins.
Maximum 10 pages with 10 pages of financials – TOTAL OF 20 PAGES (note: this is a change in length requirement)
Business Plans are due on 2/15/2008 - deliver to Becky Gann, 431 Massey Business Center
Supplemental material can be submitted, but the above criteria will be the sole means used to evaluate all submissions.
Scholarships will be awarded for the current school year and may affect other financial aid. If you have questions about how it may impact your financial aid package, please contact Student Financial Services.
This six-week immersion program includes Mexican homestays, Spanish classes, afternoon activities and excursions. The Info & Sign-Up Meeting is on Fri., Feb. 1 at 10 a.m. in Wheeler Humanities Building (WHB) #209 for students interested in taking six Belmont credit hours of Spanish (any level) from May 16 - June 28 at the Universidad de las Américas in Puebla. For more information, come to this meeting with the trip Director, Dr. David C. Julseth (julsethd@mail.belmont.edu) and visit our website www.belmont.edu/studyabroad.
Nashville has its very own Parthenon, but now Belmont students have an opportunity to see the one on the Acropolis in Athens while earning college credit; up to 6 hours in PHIL or ART HISTORY (Junior Cornerstone). From May 10-June 2, students will travel to major archeological sites and museums in Athens, Crete, Olympia, Delphi, Sparta and other exciting locations where onsite lectures will be provided by Belmont faculty Dr. Mark Anderson and Dr. Judy Bullington. Contact the Rasmussen Center for International Education at 460-5500 for further details. Application deadline is Feb.1.
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