In a room painted purple and white, a class of third graders write letters to their pen pals - ACU students - using pencils with ACU logos. They end each school day with a Wildcat chant. If you ask the students where they are going to college, 75 percent of them will say ACU, said Robin Carlile, their teacher. The children at San Jacinto ... [Read More…]
Revolutions have global impact
Larry Henderson made a short visit to Egypt sometime in the '90s. Thinking back to what he saw in the country then, the news of the Egyptians' political revolt did not surprise him. "I saw the people living under pressure," said Henderson, mission coordinator for Asia within the Halbert Institute for Missions and adjunct professor of Bible, ... [Read More…]
Digital textbooks to be discussed
The Texas state government is working on implementing bills that give high school students access to digital textbooks - a topic of great interest at this year's Connected Summit. Sidney Burrus, Maxfield and Oshman professor emeritus of engineering at Rice University, will be sharing his work in this area. Burrus worked on Texas House Bills 2488 ... [Read More…]
Department of Education official to visit ACU
Karen Cator, U.S. Department of Education director of educational technology, will visit ACU to share her vision for America's educational reform at the Connected Summit. Cator works to create the best learning environments for this generation of students, according to her biography on the U.S. government website. Before working for the Department ... [Read More…]
Jobs scarce for college students
Freshmen and seniors alike may need tips for polishing their resumes. The Federal Reserve chairman said jobs probably will be scarce for the next decade. According to a BBC article published earlier this month, Ben Bernanke predicted it would take would take about 10 years to beat back the unemployment rate to the 5-6 percent seen before the ... [Read More…]
Anonymous donor issues challenge
Alumni and friends of ACU can double the impact of their gifts to the university until March 31. An anonymous donor has volunteered to match 1:1 any gift or pledge up to $50,000. The gifts will go toward the Exceptional Fund, said Rendi Hahn, coordinator of advancement campaigns. This fund fills the 20-30 percent gap between money raised in ... [Read More…]
Students, professors recover from snow break
Four days stuck indoors was too many for Ashleigh Banda, senior nursing major from Dallas. "The first two days, I celebrated. The night of the second day, I was ready for it to be over," Banda said. "You couldn't leave. You couldn't even go out to eat with your friends." Professors and students alike have had to grapple with the cost of four free ... [Read More…]
Freshmen stress at a 25-year high
Stress is no new concept in the life of a college student, but a recent study indicates that the emotional health of freshmen is worse than it was 25 years ago. Only 51.9 percent of freshmen had above average emotional health, according to a press release from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program. This is a 3.4 percent drop from 2009 and ... [Read More…]
University to eliminate PE education program
Exercise science major Kelly Baskin came to ACU knowing she wanted to work with athletes. But future Wildcats who hope to work in high school athletics, as does Baskins, may have hit a snag: ACU has just completed the paperwork for terminating the Physical Education Teacher Education program. Joe Bell, chair of the Department of Exercise Science ... [Read More…]
ACU considers Verizon alternative
AT&T may no longer have a monopoly on ACU students' mobile devices. Verizon announced earlier this month that it will begin servicing the iPhone 4 on Feb. 10. Audrey Lundy, the public relations manager for Verizon Wireless in Texas, said Verizon has not announced whether customers could use their pre-existing plans on the iPhone. The only ... [Read More…]
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