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December 7, 2007

Achievers


Gwaltney, Crowder Featured on DVD
The Baptist Center for Ethics (BCE) recently announced the release of a 13-minute DVD, "The Nazareth Manifesto," that explores Luke 4:18-19 and features insights from Dr. Darrell Gwaltney, dean of the School of Religion, and Dr. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, assistant professor in the School of Religion.

Gwaltney, Crowder and several Baptist pastors will be studying the text together from various ethnic and cultural perspectives when various Baptist groups from across North America gather together in Atlanta in January. The DVD costs $12 and is available for order at the BCE Web site. Other Luke 4 resources offered by BCE include a free, online Bible study, The Agenda: 8 Lessons from Luke 4. The resource includes a student's and leader's guide authored by prominent North American Baptists, and a Bible study commentary authored by the faculty of the School of Religion at Belmont University.

McKay, Baruzzini Receive Awards from Diversity Forum
Mckay_Nunn2.jpgOn Nov. 29 at an event at Opryland Hotel, Director of Human Resources Sally McKay and Director of Organizational Development Deborah Nunn Baruzzini received awards of appreciation from the Middle Tennessee Diversity Forum Advisory Council for their work in organizing the Forum’s quarterly meeting this past spring. The March 6 meeting was hosted by Belmont University in the Frist Lecture Hall of the Gordon E. Inman Center and featured a keynote presentation by Toni Riccardi, CEO of RED, a consulting firm providing diversity and inclusion consulting, coaching and training. Riccardi, a retired partner from PricewaterhouseCoopers where she served as PwC’s first Chief Diversity Officer, spoke on “The Challenges of Change and Inclusion.” For more on this story, click here.

Hare Selected as Candidate for National Award
hare02.jpgSenior men’s basketball student-athlete Justin Hare has been selected as a candidate for the 2007-08 Lowe’s Senior Class Award. This is the latest national honor for Hare in his decorated Belmont career. A 2007 Second Team Academic All-American and twice Academic All-District selection, the Cleveland, Tenn. native was named Atlantic Sun Conference Male Student-Athlete of the Year this past June. Hare sports a 3.86 GPA in his chosen major of exercise science and health promotion. For more on this story, click here.

Graduating Business Students Score High on National Exam
The College of Business Administration recently announced that many of its graduating seniors scored at or above the top 10 percent level on the Major Field Test in Business, an exam produced by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) of Princeton, N.J. The ETS exam has been administered to almost 9,000 students at 181 undergraduate business programs across the U.S. For more on this story, click here.


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