Belmont is growing yet again, and this time, the construction will be lawn-side between the Johnson and Baskin Centers. Plans for a new six-story building — called the 3-D Building in the spirit of “Data, Design and Discovery” — outline what will serve as the new home of the university admissions department, the Belmont Store and the recently announced Belmont Data Collaborative. It will also be home to student entrepreneurship programs and classes within the Massey College o

Senior leadership decided this summer to convert the Hitch and Massey Performing Arts Center parking lot on 17th Avenue into a visitors-only lot this summer–thus closing its 43 spots to the students and faculty the lot once served. And many of them are not happy about it. “It’s a slap in the face to staff in particular,” said art professor Jim Meaders. Meaders teaches in the Leu Center for Visual Arts, one of the buildings affected by this decision; the others include the MPA

Belmont University once again finds its largest freshman class ever in the recently enrolled Class of 2019. With 1,394 students, this year’s group of brand new Bruins represents yet another entry in an upward trend of enrollment which has defined the school’s past decade. At Wednesday’s opening convocation, university President Bob Fisher alluded to this trend, saying that the school has produced more alumni in the past 10 years than it had in its entire history prior. The sc

In hindsight, senior Hannah Hendricks doesn’t doubt her choice to come to Belmont University. But it was a decision the Clarksville native almost derailed when she sent an email to the college she nearly went to – Northwestern University – saying she made a mistake by committing to Belmont. Now though, Hendricks said that “mistake” is something she would never regret. Four years later, she is set to graduate from Belmont with a bachelor’s degree in English and with some level