by Sierra Sparks | Nov 6, 2016 | News Slider
Lipscomb’s College of Business is continuing to make advancements thanks to the generosity of alumni and dedicated professors. Dr. Ray Eldridge had the privilege of introducing two additions to the Swang Center this weekend. The Nowers Family Business as Mission Suite and the Bay and Mary Ann Roberts Telepresence Center were dedicated and celebrated during Lipscomb’s Homecoming festivities. Senior Alexandria Arnette works closely with professor Rob Touchstone and the Business as Mission department. She, along with other Business as Mission students, is ecstatic about the advantages and benefits the new Nowers Family Business as Mission Suite will provide them. “The new Business as Mission Suite gives students a place to meet and work on local and global projects in addition to developing their own entrepreneurial ventures,” Arnette said. Burton Nowers is the president of Healing Hands International. Healing Hands was created by Lipscomb’s marketing professor, Dr. Randy Steger. In the early 1990s, Steger proposed a different approach his students could take toward the end of semester project. Through his marketing class, where Nowers was a student, Healing Hands International was started by showing God’s love and healing to those around the world through medicine, education, agriculture and disaster relief. Both Nowers and his wife, Lisa, are Lipscomb alumni who believe in helping students pursue their heart’s missional desire. To further the enhancement of using business as mission, the Bay and Mary Ann Roberts Telepresence Center was named in dedication of the Roberts’ parents. Prior to the celebration, the glass-windowed room, Swang 100, was simply viewed as just another ordinary classroom, but to heighten the Business as Mission department, video...
