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New class introduces freshmen to critical thinking

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This year's freshmen will not be able to brush off the traditionally bare-bones "welcome to college life" class. A 3-hour Cornerstone class has replaced the 1-hour University Seminar (UNIV 100) as a part of ACU's new interdisciplinary core curriculum. Cornerstone shifts the focus from simply providing students with fundamental learning skills, ... [Read More…]

Record student enrollment expected

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ACU may welcome more than 5,000 students this fall, said Buck James, assistant vice president for enrollment management. Admission's current numbers project the freshmen class to comprise about 1,050 students. Though the university will not have the final numbers until late August, James said this increase from last year's number of freshmen - ... [Read More…]

QEP to expand research literacy

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Dr. Phyllis Bolin, associate professor of mathematics, gets excited when she talks about ACU's Quality Enhancement Plan. The plan, which centers around "research literacy," aims not only to fulfill university recertification requirements but to enhance students' learning experience, Bolin said. But Bolin, chairman of the QEP Development Team, ... [Read More…]

COBA defines research differently, QEP

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Steven Rizzotto and his classmates are a few of the many ACU students who performed research this semester. However, they may be the only students to conduct their research in the United Supermarkets grocery store on Judge Ely Boulevard. Rizzotto, junior marketing major from Sugar Land, conducted a study for a nonprofit organization on how ... [Read More…]

Students disappointed with iPhone utilization

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Freshmen and upperclassmen alike are toning up their thumbs in preparation for the fall's "iPhone saturation." But putting an iPhone or iPod touch in the hand of every student will do more than just increase the number of videos downloaded from YouTube. Several ACU students presented research on the effect media technology has on students and ... [Read More…]

Undergraduate researchers present projects

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A poster on livestock production stands beside another about 3-D movies. Students present the influence of communication technology on student-teacher communication, while a few feet away another explains how understanding a protein's essential components may lead to the creation of antibiotics. This is the Undergraduate Research ... [Read More…]

Accounting faculty to further studies of business ethics

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Only 12 percent of Americans rate business executives as highly ethical, according to a Gallup poll published Dec. 9. The ability of the private sector to practice self-control has been hotly debated. ACU accounting professors, armed with databases, surveys and ethical theory, are investigating whether this distrust of businesses is founded. This ... [Read More…]

Students present ‘The Art of the Critique’

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Four ACU Honors students gave faces to evil, victims of discrimination and even the person of Jesus Christ in their presentations at the Great Plains Honors Council 2010 Conference on Friday and Saturday. Joshua Alkire, Katherine Sinclair, Megan Faver-Hartline and Margaret Moore traveled to Tulsa, Okla., to show their work to other Honors students ... [Read More…]

QEP Team develops accreditation method

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Anyone who has written a paper on how to write a paper can sympathize with the challenge facing the Quality Enhancement Plan Development Team - researching how to do research. Yet the team's success in this potentially boring task will result not in a grade but in the entire accreditation of the university. The Southern Association of Colleges and ... [Read More…]

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