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SGA conducting second annual join week

October 11, 2019 by Andrew Toothman

From ACUSGA.com The ACU Student Government is conducting a Join Week event for students that are interested in getting more involved in student organizations with the help of a new position on SGA. The second annual Join Week began Oct. 7 and is a week long event designed to connect students to different organizations on campus and the Abilene ... [Read More…]

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Innovation Foundry hosted Adobe workshop

October 11, 2019 by Andrew Toothman

Innovation Foundry hosted Adobe workshops upstairs in ACU’s Brown Library to aid students and faculty with Adobe programs and teach them the basic mechanisms that will help them in the future. Innovation Foundry hosted a workshop on Oct. 8 with an Adobe Portfolio tutorial where students and faculty could come and learn not only what Adobe ... [Read More…]

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Football fireworks set off fire across Ambler

October 4, 2019 by Andrew Toothman

Photo taken by junior BioChemistry major Madi Dye. A fire caused by fireworks during the football game threatened student and others’ homes, but firemen were on sight to put the fire out, on Sept. 21. The university shot off fireworks during the national anthem for the game against McNeese State when the fire occurred. The field across from ... [Read More…]

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Carl Spain Center invites speaker to discuss race from biblical standpoint

October 4, 2019 by Andrew Toothman

The Carl Spain Center hosted a workshop called “Let’s Get Ready To Talk About Race”  on Sept. 27-28 where Ron Holland spoke on how to discuss race from a biblical standpoint.  Ron Holland was invited to speak at an event hosted by ACU  in Bible 114 for two days. He discussed how we as a generation should be confronting race and how people who ... [Read More…]

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ACU Film Festival hosts interest meeting for students

September 26, 2019 by Andrew Toothman

The ACU FilmFest will be hosting multiple interest meeting for students on Friday and Saturday and they encourage students that have any interest in making films to attend these meetings.  ACU’s FilmFest began in 2005 as a student run film festival that is not only designed for students interest in watching films, but also for students who are ... [Read More…]

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25th annual Big Country Balloon Festival comes to Abilene

September 26, 2019 by Andrew Toothman

Big Country Balloon Festival

The Optimist Club Unlimited of Abilene will host the 25th Annual Big Country Balloon Fest beginning on Friday at Red Bud Park in Abilene. The Optimist Club Unlimited is based in Abilene and its mission is to bring joy and serve the city. Robin Hicks, who is in charge of volunteers and directing the festival for The Optimist Club Unlimited said ... [Read More…]

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Freshman take leadership in 49th annual Follies

September 19, 2019 by Andrew Toothman

ACU will host its 49th annual Freshmen Follies event on Friday and Saturday in Cullen Auditorium. Freshman Follies falls on Family Weekend during which students and families can come to see the freshmen compete in a lip sync and dance competition. Even though Follies is a smaller performance than Sing Song, which takes place in February, the ... [Read More…]

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113th Annual Summit features Film Fest documentaries

September 13, 2019 by Andrew Toothman

Film Fest will partner with the 113th Summit to feature true story documentaries. Charles Smith, a retired minister who is leading Summit Film Fest this year, said he is excited to see the good news of the gospel being spread to students on a different level of film and documentaries. His goal in featuring the films is to spread awareness and ... [Read More…]

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Maker Lab, Innovation Foundry to bring back ‘Maker Monday’

September 7, 2019 by Andrew Toothman

The Maker Lab and Innovation Foundry will partner for the third year to host a series of workshops for students and faculty. The workshops are designed to help beginners to intermediates  who are interested in using Adobe software. The Maker Lab workshop is called Maker Monday, and the first session begins on Sept. 23 upstairs in the Brown ... [Read More…]

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Study Abroad lines up program offerings

August 30, 2019 by Andrew Toothman

Several faculty members will be leading Study Abroad trips during the upcoming semesters. The Study Abroad Program travels to three different countries throughout the year. The three locations are in Oxford, England, Leipzig, Germany, and Montevideo, Uruguay.  In fall of 2019, the professors attending Leipzig are Dr. Mark Phillips, professor ... [Read More…]

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