Dr. Robert (Bob) Fisher serves as President of Belmont University, a position he has held since April 2000. During his tenure the university’s enrollment has risen by 81 percent while the campus itself has expanded significantly with the additions of the Curb Event Center and Beaman Student Life Center, the Gordon E. Inman Center, the Troutt Theater complex and several new residence halls and parking garages. Under his leadership Belmont University also broke into the Top 10 for the first time in the Best Universities Master’s level South category in U.S. News & World Report’s analysis of America’s Best Colleges. Soaring to No. 7 in the 2010 edition, Belmont was also honored for the second year in a row as one of the top two schools nationwide for “leading the pack in improvements and innovative changes.”
In addition, Fisher worked to secure Belmont as the host site for the 2008 Town Hall Presidential Debate, a historic event broadcast worldwide that also led to his selection as 2008 Tennessean of the Year. More recently, he announced the opening of the Belmont College of Law and oversaw the topping out celebration for a new $30 million health sciences building that is scheduled to open in June 2010. Academically, the university has added numerous new interdisciplinary programs in the past decade, including Social Entrepreneurship, New Century Journalism and Pharmacy.
