The 113th annual Summit will begin this year on Sunday evening and end on Wednesday during Chapel. “The purpose of Summit is to be a place where conversation is held for life and faith and so it is a time of spiritual renewal,” said Dr. David Wray, director of Summit. Summit began in 1906 around the name Lectureship. Through the years it has ... [Read More…]
Delta Theta seeks to relieve financial barrier for future pledges
Delta Theta is making a "Biddie Closet" to provide the uniforms and items needed for any pledges who are financially unable to do so. The Biddie Closet is a new idea Delta Theta plans to implement by providing any girls that receive a bid from their club with necessary items and apparel needed for their pledging process. The club will take ... [Read More…]
113th Annual Summit features Film Fest documentaries
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…]
Former student acquitted on sexual assault, tampering charges
A former student has been acquitted of charges that he sexually assaulted another student and withheld and destroyed evidence during an investigation related to an incident at a house two blocks from campus in the fall of 2014. Jacob Windsor, who at the time of the incident was a junior biology major from Midlothian, was found not guilty by a ... [Read More…]
Author’s visit highlights racial justice
Author and activist Austin Channing Brown spoke to students Monday after faculty and staff read her recently published memoir during different reading groups. Several faculty members read Brown’s memoir “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness” as part of a small reading group last spring. Dr. Robert Rhodes, provost, then ... [Read More…]
University outranks other Texas schools in World Report
ACU has outranked other Texas universities in U.S. News & World Report’s new benchmark and climbed nine spots in the regional rankings from last year. The university received its highest overall Western Region ranking in history at 12th in the U.S. News & World Report's 2020 "America's Best Colleges." Dr. Phil Schubert, president of the ... [Read More…]
Law requires employees to report sexual assault incidents
University employees are now required by law to promptly report incidents regarding sexual harassment and assault against a student or another employee as of Sept. 1. Senate Bill 212, which went into effect Sept. 1, says all employees of an institution, public or private, must "promptly report" any reports made to them involving the sexual ... [Read More…]
Maker Lab, Innovation Foundry to bring back ‘Maker Monday’
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…]
China no longer accepts plastic and glass from US
For the first time in decades, China is no longer receiving plastics and glass from the U.S. for recycling. China's reason for the change is the plastics from the U.S. are not sorted properly. This has resulted in China spending more money in order to sort out plastics before processing. Plastics are separated into subsets due to different ... [Read More…]
Online undergrad degrees exceed enrollment expectations
Enrollment in the ACU Dallas online undergraduate programs has surpassed expectations. Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer for the Dallas campus Stephen Johnson said they originally projected 25 students across the Bachelor of Science in psychology and the Bachelor of Science in information technology administration programs but said ... [Read More…]
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