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August 30, 2007

Belmont News


Belmont Announces Record Fall Enrollment
Belmont University announced its total Fall 2007 enrollment today at 4,765 students at the end of the registration period, marking an increase of 6.3 percent since last year and a rise of just over 60 percent since 2000 when the school enrolled 2,976 students. The Belmont student body currently comprises 726 graduate students and 4,039 undergraduates, representing record enrollment in both categories. To read more, click here.

Volman Named Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of Entertainment Industry Studies
Mark Volman, a founding member and lead singer in the musical group, The Turtles, (“Happy Together”) and Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, has landed in Nashville at Belmont University—he’s been appointed the Program Coordinator of the Entertainment Industry Studies and named an assistant professor in Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business. Volman has been teaching classes at Belmont since 2004 when the school hired him as an adjunct professor to teach music business classes. A natural subject for Volman, he incorporates many of his real-world “ups” and “downs” in the music industry into his lectures. To read more, click here.

Alexander Re-Elected to Baldrige National Foundation Board of Directors
Joe Alexander, Associate Dean and Senior Professor of Performance Excellence of the Jack C. Massey Graduate School of Business, has been re-elected to the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) Foundation’s Board of Directors for 2007-2009. To read more, click here.

Acclaimed Author Lauren Winner Speaks on 'Real Sex'
lauren winner.jpgLauren Winner, critically acclaimed author and assistant professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity School, spoke today in a standing-room only lecture in Neely Dining Hall. Speaking on the theme from her latest book, Real Sex: The Naked Truth About Chastity, Winner drew a total of 387 students for the convocation program in addition to a large faculty/staff/community turnout. To read more, click here.

Belmont Launches Emergency Instant Alert System
Belmont University recently launched an Instant Alert System that allows students, faculty and staff to receive immediate notification in the event of an on-campus emergency or unscheduled university closing due to, for instance, severe weather. Dobie Mobile—a locally-owned company that provides the software, technology and maintenance for organizations to send out text alerts—is providing the service to the Belmont campus. The university has been exploring options for instant alert notification for more than a year, and since its launch in mid-August the system has received a strong response. After only one-week of classes, more than 20 percent of the 5,000 students and employees on campus have already signed up for Instant Alert. Signing up for the system is quick and easy. After signing into the bic.belmont.edu Web site, look for a “Sign Up Now” for instant alert link that sits at the top of the page beneath the “My Campus and Academic Department Messages” subheading. Clicking on the link will take users immediately to the instant alert Web site where they can fill out the short sign-up form. The other sign-up option requires texting the word Belmont to the number 27538 from the user’s cell phone. To view an in-depth report of the Instant Alert system from local TV station WKRN/News 2, click here. For further assistance or additional information, contact the Office of Communications at communication@mail.belmont.edu.


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