Belmont University | FYI


July 25, 2008

ACHIEVERS


Belmont Men's Basketball Program Mentioned in ESPN Prestige Rankings
ESPN researchers Nick Loucks, Harold Shelton and Chris Fallica revealed this week their new men's college basketball prestige rankings. The duo analyzed 300 Division I men's college basketball teams, weighing the thousands of regular-season and postseason wins and losses, the NBA draft picks, the All-Americans and the national titles to come up with a numerical point system to provide unbiased rankings of every college hoops program's success since the start of the 1984-85 season. However, the rankings required teams to have 15-seasons minimum competing in Division-I, automatically eliminating the Belmont Bruins and 40 other current D-I teams from the list. However, of the schools that were eliminated because they didn't have the minimum 15 D-I seasons, the school that would have finished the highest is Belmont (132). Click here to see Belmont's mention along with other programs outside the Top 50.

Oglesby-Pitts Publishes Editorial in The Tennessean
pitts.jpgDr. Myron Oglesby-Pitts, Ed.D., a former Metro school principal who is currently an assistant professor in Belmont's department of education, recently wrote an editorial for The Tennessean on the passing of her first grade teacher, Mrs. Mary S. Craighead: "The magic of this teacher never seemed to end. She celebrated her 90th birthday sharing lessons of effective teaching and learning strategies with my graduate class at Belmont University."

Click here to read the full article, titled "A true 'champion for children' left an indelible impression on students."

Childs, Gonas Published in Journal of Financial Planning
childs.jpgGonas.jpgDr. Brad Childs, associate professor of accounting, and Dr. John Gonas, assistant professor of finance, recently published an article in the Journal of Financial Planning with colleague Dr. Jeremy Thornton of Samford University. The article, titled "Are Donor-Advised Funds Always the Best Economic Choice?," analyzes what factors makes a Donor-Advised Fund preferable to "checkbook philanthropy."


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