Engagement with the Nashville community occurs in the classroom as well as seen with the recent Curb College and Avenue Bank partnership. Experts from the bank are team teaching a course in entertainment industry finance, offering critical skills to young music business entrepreneurs. Another example found journalism students and faculty assisting seventh and eighth grade students from Rose Park Magnet Middle School in producing a newsletter for the nearby Edgehill community. Often, community engagement comes in the form of special events that bring Nashville citizens to Belmont’s campus as was the case this fall when hundreds of community members joined the University in celebrating the 10th annual Humanities Symposium with keynote speaker Maya Angelou. Author of more than 30 best-selling titles and a Pulitzer Prize nominee, Angelou delivered a stirring address that brought the audience of 5,000 to its feet. It was truly an inspirational evening, and another moving reminder of what it means to “be Belmont.� be
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