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The Pineapple is a weekly podcast produced at Bellarmine University. Each week we showcase at the college experience through student profiles and highlighting various issues including FAFSA, time management, healthy eating, the enrolling and admissions process and how to select an academic major. Bellarmine University is a small private Division 1 liberal arts university in Louisville, Kentucky. Listen to The Pineapple podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcast, iHeart Radio
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Jazzmine L. Golden is Senior Financial Aid Counselor at Bellarmine University and says these are some of the Common Mistakes made in Completing your FAFSA form: Forgot to sign the form Incorrect information for Household size Incorrect Income Tax InformationRemember the first part of FAFSA is for Student InformationMs. Golden offers the following tips to completing your FAFSA form: Fill out the form soon after October 1st (some states, like Kentucky, offer grants on a first come first serve basis)Attend Information Session at Bellarmine University in Louisville 10/24Call the Office of Financial Aid with any questionsHave your income and tax materials readily available to complete the FAFSA
Financial Aid Director April Tretter shares tips and advantages in filling out the FAFSA form. FAFSA is the free application for federal student aid. Two helpful tips in filling out the FAFSA form from April Tretter: 1. Use the IRS Data Retrieval tool to link to IRS 2. Sign up for the FSA-ID sooner than later Ms. Tretter also says two of the most common mistakes that cause the FAFSA form to be rejected: 1. Wrong social security number 2. Forgot to sign the FAFSA form 3. The household information is incorrect
This week's podcast will offer a good option for Bellarmine University students who've run out of credit on their meal tickets and meal plans. There's now a free-of-charge food pantry. The idea to open a food pantry came to senior student Becca Broda while on spring break in India.
Have you heard of the term “food insecurity”? For college students, the term refers to what happens when there’s no money left on your meal ticket, but the semester is not over yet. In this episode of the Pineapple, Bellarmine University’s Assistant Dean of Students introduces listeners to the Knights Pantry.
A lot of students struggle with weight gain while in college. In this episode of the Pineapple, the Associate Director of Campus Wellness explains what it means to be healthy and adds there's also emotional, financial, occupational, environmental wellness to consider.
Our guest for this episode of The Pineapple is Beth Quinn, the Associate Director of Clinical Education for Bellarmine's physical therapy program. Mrs. Quinn gives an overview of the program and specifically lauds the newest addition to the menu of service learning centers, The Thrive Center. The Thrive Center is located in downtown Louisville and has opened its doors to physical therapy students from Bellarmine University as of spring 2018. The students help and learn in a variety of ways including a research program that netted an 8-week Balance and Falls Prevention Class to benefit older adults.
We call her YaYa for short, but this track and field athlete is all things tall. Yashira Rhymer-Stuart competes in the high jump on the Knights Women's Track and Field team, and as of March this five time All-American became a national champion. To some it came as no surprise, since Yashira has been ranked number one in the high jump in D2 programs nationally, and also ranked all season in the top ten nationally in all divisions. In this conversation YaYa talks about her confidence level and the importance of having a supportive coach. Our discussion includes assistant women's track and field coach, Bill Hearn.
There's a beautiful arch on the campus of Bellarmine University, and Associate Director of Housing Lindsey Gilmore says the arch represents opportunity. To the members of the Class of 2023, Ms. Gilmore says Bellarmine embraces each of its students and helps that student to not only identify their academic and career choice but also develop themselves as valuable citizens.
Lindsey Gilmore, Associate Director of Housing at Bellarmine University knows each year there will be students who experience homesickness. In short, they want to go home for the weekend or for a few days. But Ms. Gilmore says the better response to feeling homesick may be to stick it out. She says make friends, take part in some of the many campus events, join a club or get to know the campus better. Each year she assigns residence life coordinators the task of finding those first year students who seem to be spending a lot of time alone and charges her coordinators with helping and welcoming those students to the college experience.
There is an impressive lineup of activities, including a spectacular fireworks show, to welcome the Bellarmine University Class of 2023. Bryan Hamann is the Associate Director of Student Activities and says this year's orientation is bigger than ever, including an off campus event to help students get to know each other.
Is there really such a thing as the perfect roommate? Bellarmine University Residence Life staff members go to work each year in hopes of identifying the best possible pairings for roommates. Each set of roommates must sign a contract that states each student will do their best to live peacefully. If one student doesn't like loud music, the other student will respect those wishes. Or if one student likes have friends over but the other student is more of an introvert, those differences will also be honored. One person who works primarily with the software that does the pairings is Colleen Arnett, Coordinator of Operations for Housing at Bellarmine. In this interview she talks about the partnering of students and how differences or concerns are resolved.
Think of the busiest day of the year on any college campus and chances are you will agree that the day students move "all their stuff" in is a big day. It's the day that parents fight back the tears, it's the day that the younger siblings get an upclose glimpse of what it means for the older sibling to begin growing up. It's a big day and Associate Housing Director at Bellarmine University Lindsey Gilmore talks about the preparation, including what it takes to pair students together to live as roommates. Fun conversation with Lindsey Gilmore.
Shelby Durbin is a Psychology major at Bellarmine University and part of the Class of 2019. In a word, she is "impressive", in two words she is "very impressive". She took part in a Storytelling Event put on by Campus Ministry and shared a story that could change the balance of school and social involvement for every college student.
Dr. Ainsley Lambert Swain is one of the new professors teaching courses for a new minor offered at Bellarmine in African and African-American and Diaspora Studies. She comes to Bellarmine by way of Cincinnati by way of Morehead State University by way of Butler High School located in Louisville, Kentucky. She shares the academic route to Bellarmine and what her expectations and preparation is for the new minor.
We talk with a Bellarmine University sophomore who says when it was time to apply to college she only had one school on her list. Bellarmine was the only school this student applied to. She had received awards from other schools, but there was something about the campus and the people at Bellarmine that made her only apply to Bellarmine. As irony would have it, her name is Faith. Listen to this inspiring story and keep listening for the story about the special party she and thirteen of her close friends threw for a special cat.
In this episode, Dr. Jon Blandford, Director of the Honors Program and Associate Professor of English at Bellarmine, talks about the Honors Program and points out some of the innovative options that are offered to students. He says experiential learning is a great opportunity for honors students and he explains what it takes to be an honors student at Bellarmine.
Adam Elias has a big responsibility at Bellarmine University. He is the Director of Innovative Learning Systems and in a nutshell, he helps professors teach their courses online and his bigger task is to expand the university's voice and reach in the online delivery of education. So far, he's helped increase the number of online offerings at Bellarmine, and one by one he works with faculty members to make sure they are equipped to support an online course.
Brooke Wilson directs the Office of Service and Leadership with a small army of staff and students who are committed to get students to understand the merits of engaging in service and leadership. Wilson says GenZs are very interested inthe "why" and the purpose of service and that's why the alternative spring break and voter registration drives and other information formats are so attractive to students. Wilson is introduced to students in a variety of ways and says whenever she dialogues with students she wants students to go deep in their thinking to find out why they want to serve, or why they want to lead and to explore the benefits is knowing how to follow.
A native of Richmond (Kentucky) selects Bellarmine University and says he's glad he did. Sophomore Harry attended a very small high school. There were only 54 students in his high school graduating class. He is majoring in Sports Administration and Business Administration at Bellarmine and says the best advice he can share with incoming students is to respect your new independence.
Three years ago, an Atherton High School graduate decided that he'd like to study at Bellarmine University. The high school was in same city as the university, but Emmanuel says that's what he wanted. He wanted to leave home and enjoy a new found independence while at the same time still being close to home. Since enrolling at Bellarmine Emmanuel has declared his major (Communications, English) and become very involved in campus radio.
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