McClurkan Building was completely renovated and made handicap accessible. The completed project earned an Award of Excellence from the Middle-Tennessee Chapter of the Association of Builders and Contractors.
UNIVERSITY • The University honored U. S. Senator Elizabeth Dole by presenting her the second Nina Griggs Gunter Servant-Leadership Award. • The generous gift from alumna Eleanor Hardy Burrow made possible the naming of the Hardy Alumni Center in honor of the members of the Hardy family who played important roles in the history of Trevecca. • Of the 2012 traditional graduates who responded to a survey about their future plans, 76% indicated that they planned to attend graduate school. Labs and classrooms on the third and fourth floors of the Greathouse Science Building were renovated and refitted. (Photo 1) • Graduating business students scored in the 71st percentile on the internationally recognized major field achievement test in May.
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• The Nashville Business Journal reported that Trevecca’s business school had the highest increase in enrollment, 24%, from spring semester 2012 to fall semester 2012, of the 23 Middle-Tennessee business schools in that listing. • The business administration department proposed and received approval to begin offering a minor in entrepreneurship and small business management; administrators in this department anticipate that this minor will be a popular one for nonbusiness majors. • During the 2012 fall semester, students in the Leadership in the 21st Century course, taught by business instructor Jon Burch, served as partners with the YMCA to offer The Leadership Lab. For ten weeks the students and Burch mentored, walked with teenagers and their parents, and taught leadership theories and skills to 25 young people. • The business administration department and the Social Justice Program are partners in the launch of the Trevecca Social Justice Business Laboratory, which will provide professors and students throughout the
Treveccan Winter 2012-2013