by Hunter Patterson | Aug 26, 2011 | News Slider
Early Friday morning inside Allen Arena, Lipscomb hosted the first Nashville Business Breakfast of the fall semester. Tennessee’s newest governor, Bill Haslam, was the featured speaker of the event. Others speaking at the event were SGA president Daniel Wakefield and Lipscomb president Randy Lowry. Amongst the numerous white collar businessmen and women were several members of the Lipscomb faculty. Walt Leaver, Jim Thomas, Tom Seals and Joe Ivey – to name a few. Several of those in the audience were present for the first time. This was pointed out during the introduction when it was announced that the crowd at Friday’s breakfast was twice the size of any other they had seen in the past. Wakefield officially started the event by offering an invocation. Following him was President Lowry who pointed out the audience’s only federally elected official, congressman Jim Cooper. Lowry highlighted the accomplishments of the university over the recent months and told a very light-hearted story about his predecessor, Steve Flatt. Turns out, when renovating Fanning over the summer, workers found several lost items behind the bookshelves in the rooms of the dormitory. One of the items was a letter written by Flatt. The letter was to a girl. A girl that, turns out, is not his wife. Lowry was quick to point out that it was not anything sinister, for Flatt had not yet met his wife. Lowry then introduced the day’s featured speaker, Gov. Haslam. Haslam was greeted with a standing ovation. He began in normal speaking fashion with a joke. “It’s great seeing everyone show up for something like this at the beginning of...
by Jeremy Keck | Mar 30, 2011 | News Slider
“I look forward to a time that I won’t get to experience, and you won’t either. But decades down the road where other people will look back and see that in this moment, this community did what it was called to do.” Those were Dr. Randy Lowry’s concluding words as he introduced the layout of Lipscomb 2016, his vision of what Lipscomb University will look like in five years, to the student body at The Gathering on Tuesday, March 29. “We’re going to call it Lipscomb Next: Vision for 2016,” Lowry said. “The essence of this entire plan is to invest $125 million into this institution by the time we get to our 125th anniversary, which is 2016.” Lipscomb invested about $54 million into their last plan, making the proposed $125 million dollar investment into their next plan “extraordinarily ambitious.” Notable additions to expect Lipscomb to make in their next plan include: three new colleges, fifty new full time faculty members and thirty new academic programs. Some of the changes that Lipscomb will be undergoing will take years to develop. However, Lowry stated a couple of significant changes are set to take place in the very near future. One change being the renovation of Fanning Hall. “As we think about residence halls, we realize that they are not at the standard that we would like,” Lowry said. “The city’s approval pending, Lipscomb is set to gut out and renovate Fanning Hall this summer. Thanks to a construction crew committing to working on the project 24 hours a day that summer, a renovation that would normally take nine months...
by Anastasia Sloan | Jan 2, 2011 | News Slider
As we are becoming a digital nation, there is much speculation over whether this will help or harm us. “Frontline” examined this topic on television, and it is something that ought to make us all think. Over the past few decades there has been a tremendous rise in digital involvement. Americans are constantly connected in some way. Whenever we can’t find an answer, we whip out our smart phones and google the answer. In fact, “google” is now an official word of our vocabulary. It can be used either in upper or lower case, as in “google” or “Google.” The Webster’s dictionary defines google by saying it is “a verb meaning: using the Google search engine to obtain information on the world wide web.” How did anyone ever function without such readily available materials the Internet provides? The downfall to having everything here and now is that we always expect it that way. People are becoming more impatient. Their attention spans are short lived. Children are relying on online games and media to hold their attention as opposed to playing outside or reading a book. Inside the classroom students expect learning to be game-oriented as opposed to a more traditional lecture style. Studies have shown that our quality of learning has decreased. College students are finding it harder and harder to succeed in a literature classes. When surfing the web, the brain is utilizing several parts and functioning at a fast rate. Therefore, when someone is constantly surfing the web they aren’t exercising their brain as they would when focusing on a single topic or reading a book. So as college students are assigned reading in...
by Rachel Carden | Oct 5, 2010 | News Slider
[UPDATE] Stokes school has been taken off the market, due to a potential increase in students in the Hillsboro cluster. Candace McQueen, dean of the college of education, will not let this lost opportunity to partner with public schools in Nashville divert the education department from being a vital member of the community. “The College of Education at Lipscomb University is already partnering with the city in some very productive ways, including in the Cameron Partnership to bring education innovation to that community,” McQueen said. “We look forward to continuing, and expanding, that and many other beneficial collaborations with the public school district.” [ORIGINAL STORY] Lipscomb has expressed interest in purchasing Walter Stokes School from the Metro Nashville school system. Currently, the university uses the school’s lot for overflow parking. The building has been used in recent years as a temporary site for Metro schools undergoing renovations but has been vacant for two years. The school was built in 1936 and sits on five acres of land. Metro had previously declared the property a surplus, but after some questions were raised at a Metro Committee meeting, the school has now gone back off the market. The Metro Council must again pass the property through three readings before they can again deem the school surplus. The last of these reading will be held on Oct. 5. As long as the readings pass and no other Metro agencies are interested in the property, then negotiations with Lipscomb will begin again. “From what we have been told, no other agencies want to purchase the property, so it looks like we’re back on...
