Higher education at its best prepares students both for their first jobs and for opportunities well into the future. Currently the curricula and mindsets of too many institutions reflect an orientation toward 1995 rather than 2050. We need frameworks that blend innovation (and an entrepreneurial mindset), creativity, and character to enable students to become equipped for the leadership the world needs.
Belmont has long had a focus on innovation, creativity, and character. We are now doubling down on the importance of those themes and especially their intersections. We are focused on equipping students with the mindsets, skills, and character to prepare them both for their first jobs and for lifelong learning so they are equipped for jobs, roles, and leadership we can’t even anticipate yet – both locally and globally.
Venue:
Belmont University – Janet Ayres Conference Center
1601-1603 Wedgewood Av. Nashville, TN 37201
*Parking is free at the Inman Center.
Gregory Jones is President of Belmont University. Prior to serving at Belmont Greg served in a variety of faculty and administrative leadership roles at Duke University. Greg is known as a leader and strategist whose creative engagement has helped institutions across the world and in local communities to create transformational resource models. He is known for an entrepreneurial mindset as well as emphases on character and purpose in higher education, emphases in his leadership at Belmont. He is the author or editor of 19 books, and has authored more than 200 essays/articles. He is known for books on forgiveness (Embodying Forgiveness and the co-authored Forgiving as We’ve Been Forgiven), Christian leadership (the co-authored Resurrecting Excellence) and social innovation (Christian Social Innovation). His most recent book is the co-authored Navigating the Future: Traditioned Innovation for Wilder Seas (2021).