by Emily Snell | Mar 5, 2012 | News Slider
Lipscomb’s faculty hopes to bring new perspectives to their classrooms this spring as the university recognizes the opening of Faculty Club 1891 and its discussion series Carpe Discentes. The club is located in the upper level of the student center and is designed to allow faculty to engage in meaningful discussions that will improve their teaching in the classroom and help them implement new methods with their students in the community. Dr. Jim Thomas, assistant to the president and a committee member for Faculty Club 1891, said he thinks the new facility and discussions will benefit the university, the students and the city. “We move from simply an intellectual challenge to an implementation in society that makes society better than it was previously,” he said. Thomas said the committee, which is comprised of six other professors, hopes the facility and the discussion series will challenge faculty to think “not only in academic terms but in implementation terms.” Then, he said, students learn how to apply concepts and how to assess community impact. This implementation benefits the whole city, he said. “We think it’s win, win, win, all the way around.” Thomas said he finds “tremendous enrichment” to education when professors and students take things out of the classroom, into the community and then bring it back to the academic setting for evaluation. Thomas said the committee chose the title Carpe Discentes, which means “seize the learning,” because the name “matches the tone and the level” they want Faculty Club 1891 to have. “I really hope that we can begin to create an atmosphere so that there is an interdisciplinary...
by Emily Snell | Mar 2, 2012 | News Slider
NASHVILLE, TENN – On Friday, Mar. 2, the National Weather Service, along with the local news stations, warned the mid-state of the potential for severe weather. The meteorologists’ predictions were nearly spot on as the storms produced several tornado warnings as well as numerous severe thunderstorm warnings. Many students and faculty were advised to seek shelter on on campus, waiting out the storms in basements, closets, interior hallways and the backs of parking garages. Once the threatening storms had passed and the university had given the all-clear, those same students and faculty documented what the storm left behind. The following is a slideshow compromised of TwitPics, Instagrams and Facebook photos that those folks posted throughout the afternoon and evening. The following video is from Lumination correspondents Caitlin Selle and Kelly Dean. Check back with Lumination throughout the weekend for more on the storm such as videos, more pictures and other content. Until then, feel free to work backwards through the storm by following what our updates looked like today. Lumination would like to thank those that contributed to this story. [From 12:30] National and local weather experts are predicting severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes for Nashville and much of the Southeastern United States today. [UPDATE: 4:36] Severe Thunderstorm Warning still in effect for Northern Davidson County until 5:15 p.m. NashSevereWx Downtown: it’s not over. More intense thunderstorms coming, hopefully not as bad. Williamson Co continues to elude the worst of it. 3/2/12 4:33 PM [UPDATE: 4:25] All clear for now in the Nashville area. Loving the tweets, everyone. Keep them coming. Find the link at the bottom of the...
by Emily Snell | Feb 16, 2012 | News Slider
The annual spring chaos known as Singarama is underway as students have less than one month left to prepare for the big show. The production’s directors said their groups are quickly trying to write scripts, learn dances, paint sets and finalize plans for the March 8-10 event. Singarama, which traditionally has occurred after spring break, was moved up this year to help students focus on their studies during the last few weeks of school. As usual, the show will feature three groups, and this spring’s theme is “Air, Land and Sea.” Cayla Cleaver, director of Land, said she thinks having the show earlier in the year is a good thing, even though it does present challenges. “It definitely puts us in a time crunch because none of us knew who the directors were until we got back from Christmas break,” Cleaver, a junior in marketing, said. “But I kind of like it being before spring break so that everybody can stay focused.” Morgan Mathis, director for the Sea group, shared similar feelings. “At first we were kind of nervous about that, but it has helped because I feel like we’ve been a lot more on top of things,” Mathis, a senior from Chattanooga, said. “People are just diving in and getting a lot of work done. It’s a challenge, but it’s also kind of motivating.” Air director, Emily Sullivan, a social work major, said even though the change in timing has added “a lot of pressure,” the best aspect of Singarama remains the same. “Singarama brings random people together,” she said. “It’s a great way to form new friendships....
by Emily Snell | Feb 13, 2012 | News Slider
Linda Peek Schacht, executive director of Lipscomb University’s Nelson and Sue Andrews Institute for Civic Leadership, has been named the Nashville Business Journal’s 2012 Woman of Influence “Trailblazer.” As one of 30 Woman of Influence honorees, and one of three in the “Trailblazer” category, Schacht was honored at a luncheon today and will be profiled in the Friday edition of the Nashville Business Journal. She was selected as the “Trailblazer” winner over Beth DeBauche, commissioner with the Ohio Valley Conference and Lois Riggins-Ezzell, executive director of the Tennessee State Museum. Schacht is the founding executive director of the Andrews Institute for Civic Leadership (civicleadership.lipscomb.edu), established in 2010 to continue long-time Nashville businessman Nelson Andrews’ legacy of collaborative leadership through its academic programs, community engagement and research. Soon after the institute was created, Schacht oversaw the establishment of its new master’s degree in civic leadership, one of only two in the United States, now enrolling 23 students from business, nonprofits and government in its inaugural class and utilizing the institute’s state-of-the-art facility which opened June 2. An ongoing signature program of the institute is to develop informed citizens to lead the public conversation on community issues and public policy. In 2011, leaders from the 10-county Middle Tennessee region focused on transit in the first citizen leadership academy, produced in partnership with the Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee and the regional caucus of mayors. In its short one-year history, Schacht has lead the institute to bring together state and regional business, nonprofit, and government leaders to collaborate on aging, the challenges of digital communication, transit, Nashville’s strength as a multicultural city...
by Emily Snell | Feb 6, 2012 | News Slider
A 75-year-old professor who rides a Harley is unforgettable for most students. Lipscomb’s psychology department proudly claims that unique motorcycle-collecting faculty member in Dr. Roy Hamley. Hamley, one of the three self-titled “psycle therapists,” rides with his colleagues Dr. Shanna Ray and Dr. Jake Morris on weekends in the spring and fall when the weather is nice. After his son and daughter both bought Harleys, Hamley, who currently has four motorcycles, decided he should join the excitement and live “full throttle.” “I thought if they’re having all that fun, I’m going to find out what I’m missing,” he said. “So, I’ve been riding about 20 years, and I should have started sooner. I wasted a half a century before I started.” Morris and Ray began riding two years ago, after they took a motorcycle safety course together. More than half of the professors in the psychology department ride motorcycles, and those in the department who don’t ride enjoy teasing those who do. Ray said she heard that Dr. Paul Turner, one of her colleagues, was “talking trash.” “He has a bicycle,” she explained, “and he was telling his classes that he’s the only real biker in the department. He was making out like we’re a bunch of sissies who sit there and twist throttle, and you know, he actually has to work.” Ray noted, with a laugh, that the only time she and Morris argue is when they’re disputing who should take the lead when they’re on their bikes. Morris agreed, explaining the two get along well at work. “When we get on our bikes and you’re ahead of...
