A short course will be offered in the first two weeks of the spring semester, political communication and sociology in presidential campaigns, students can earn 3-hours to their degree and also attend the presidential Inauguration in Washington, D.C. The dual credit course, COMS 440/SOCI 440, works best for sociology or communication ... [Read More…]
Poli-sci professor works with DNC
Dr. David Dillman worked at the Democratic National Convention this summer for the ninth time since 1980. Dillman, professor in the political science department and director of the Jack Pope Fellows Program, worked as a “speaker tracker” for four days. Before the convention started, Dillman was familiarized with the event schedule, the ... [Read More…]
Employees eligible for free ACU Dallas online graduate degrees
ACU employees can pursue an online graduate degree from ACU Dallas Online Programs and receive 100% refund of their tuition. Beginning in October, ACU employees can choose to enroll in six different online graduate programs: Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership (EdD), Master of Education in Instructional Leadership (MEd), Master of ... [Read More…]
Five Band members participate in Drum Corps International
Five Big Purple Marching Band members participated in the Drum Corps International, the marching music’s major league, during the summer. The Drum Corps International (DCI) is a nonprofit global activity for students under 21-years-old to compete with other active corps and enhance their skills. According to dci.org, “Drum Corps ... [Read More…]
Monks Coffee Shop celebrates 10th birthday with “coffee kumite”
Monks Coffee Shop celebrated its 10th birthday Saturday by hosting competitions for baristas called a "coffee kumite." Named for a Japanese form of sparring, the four events included coffee cupping, an aeropress competition, a cold brew bout and a latte art throwdown. The coffee shop was crowded with people of all ages, sitting on the comfy ... [Read More…]
Gallery: Old and new ACU favorites return to Wildcat Week
Freshman slide in for the win at this year's mentor group olympics and 200 foot long slip-n-slide, an old Wildcat Week favorite. ... [Read More…]
Men’s basketball hosts prayer vigil for Dallas
The ACU community and Abilene citizens bowed their heads in response to national tragedies with a prayer vigil hosted by the ACU men’s basketball team Wednesday night in Hart Auditorium. The prayer vigil was created for people to come together and pray about the Dallas shootings which brought devastation across America last week. The event in ... [Read More…]
Gallery: Graduation 2016
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Gallery: Candlelight devo offers a proper send-off
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Steven Moore addresses bullying in new children’s book
Dr. Steven Moore's new children's book Theodore Thumbs, a story about bullying, is now published and sold online. Steven Moore, an associate professor in the Department of Language and Literature and director of the McNair Scholars Program, said he was inspired by firsthand experience while growing up and other people he knew in the same ... [Read More…]