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| Belmont University—From Here to Anywhere |
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| Belmont University sits on 75 historic acres two miles southwest of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. In the mid-1800s, the land the university now occupies was known as Belle Monte, the Victorian home of one of Tennessee’s wealthiest couples, Joseph and Adelicia Acklen, but the property has been the site of higher education since the founding of the original Belmont College in 1890. |
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| Belmont’s signature Bell Tower was built in the early 1850s and originally served as a water tower. Located in the heart of the campus, it is a central image for defining the university and welcoming incoming classes, the most recent of which brought the university to a record enrollment of more than 5,900 students. |
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| Assistant Professor of Finance Dr. John Gonas often teaches in Belmont’s electronic financial trading room, which brings Wall Street to campus for first-hand experiential learning. |
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Belmont’s School of Pharmacy, which will graduate its first class in spring 2012, will help alleviate the significant shortfall of qualified pharmacists needed both in the state and country at large. |
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Located in the heart of Music City USA, one of Belmont’s consistent success stories is its world-renowned music and music business programs. Several big names in the music industry started their careers at Belmont including “American Idol” finalist Melinda Doolittle, Christian recording artists Ginny Owens and Steven Curtis Chapman, and country stars Trisha Yearwood, Lee Ann Womack, Brad Paisley and Josh Turner. |
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Fall 2010 found Belmont celebrating the grand opening of nearly 200,000 square feet of new space. New state-of-the-art academic building McWhorter Hall houses the Schools of Pharmacy and Physical Therapy, as well as the Department of Psychological Science. The building includes a licensed, state-of-the-art Pharmacy Care Center which will provide services to students, faculty and staff while also serving as a training site for student pharmacists, as well as an expanded Health Services center. In addition, Belmont opened two new six-story residence halls in the center of campus that are now occupied by more than 400 freshmen. |
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