by Cole Gray | Oct 1, 2018 | News Slider, Newscast
This week on Lumination News, tune in for LeBron Hill’s coverage of how students reacted to an event on campus featuring Alex Azar, a Trump cabinet official involved in the immigration crackdown. Charissa Ricker previews the Dove Awards and Cavin Jacobson asks students what they think about the sexual assault allegations surrounding the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh. Anchors: Abbi Scott and Carly Reams Entertainment: Charissa Ricker Sports: LeBron Hill Weather: George Wong...
by Cole Gray | Sep 8, 2018 | News Slider, Newscast
Erin Franklin and Jade Spilka anchor in this week’s Lumination news, bringing you the latest in sports, entertainment and campus news. Find out the latest with the George Shinn building’s construction, what students did for Labor Day, this week’s weather and more. ...
by Cole Gray | Jun 4, 2018 | BREAKING NEWS, News Slider
An Academy group on a medical mission trip in Guatemala was not harmed by the Sunday eruption of the Fuego volcano, Mitchell Despot, a Lipscomb Academy spokesperson said. The team of teachers and students were in Antigua, less than 50 miles from the volcano, which has erupted once already this year. At least 25 people were killed in the eruption, according to CONRED, the country’s disaster-response agency. Twenty more were injured. Over 3,000 locals were forced to evacuate. The group is continuing its work until it flies back to the United States Tuesday morning, in keeping with its original schedule. This story has been updated to correct that the group was not covered in ash. Photo courtesy of Lipscomb...
by Cole Gray | Apr 18, 2018 | News Slider
Lipscomb students collectively raised $3900 for a student-funded scholarship at the third-annual Imagine event, where author Donald Miller and journalist Tom Brokaw were the featured speakers, and rising country singer Abby Anderson performed a set. Tickets went for $5 minimum apiece. The money went directly to the Make-A-Way scholarship fund, which was started by junior Ralston Drake to help lower-income high school students afford Lipscomb. An anonymous donor paid for 125 student tickets. Miller told the students in attendance to ask themselves bold questions about their lives. “You’ll find that the people that really change the world are people that, whether they know it or not, they get up in the morning and ask, ‘What if?’” Interviewed on the Student Activity Center stage by senior journalism major Lindsey Nance, Brokaw reminisced on some of the highlights and tough moments of his career at NBC. He told students to “use intelligence, not emotion” when trying to make a difference in the world. “Rage is not a policy,” he said. “If you want to change the country, it’s tough, you’ve got to organize.” He advised the audience to be careful with information found online. “You should put as much effort into determining the truth of what you read on the Internet as you do into buying a new flatscreen television,” he said. fter Brokaw spoke to students, he addressed donors in Allen Arena at the invite-only main event of the evening. There, President Randy Lowry announced that the College of Business received a record $23 million gift from a group of donors who wish to remain anonymous. That money will go toward...
by Cole Gray | Apr 17, 2018 | BREAKING NEWS, News Slider
Lipscomb received a university record-breaking donation for the second consecutive year, president Randy Lowry announced at the Imagine donor event Tuesday evening. “This is a significant moment in the history of Lipscomb University,” Lowry said in a statement. “We are grateful to these donors for their commitment to this institution. This gift is an investment in our College of Business as a way to continue to elevate the image of the school as a leader in business education in Nashville and in the nation.” The $23 million gift from an anonymous group of donors is going to the College of Business to build a new facility and parking structure. Some of the money will go to the study-abroad campus in Florence, Italy. College of Business dean Ray Eldridge said the gift would help the College build on its recent successes, which include the accounting program being named tops in Tennessee for back-to-back years by College Factual. “It is exciting for our students and faculty to see how many people believe in our mission, and it also attracts attention from others who want to be part of what we’re doing,” Eldridge said. “They’re investing into the students of tomorrow,” business major Hillary Reader said. “They may be the students who make the new Amazons, the new Googles, the new Apples of the world. That’s all we can ask for – to keep getting better as students because those are the ones who transition to be the business leaders of tomorrow.” At the Imagine event last April, the University announced a then-school-record gift of $15 million from former NBA owner George...
