The Office of Spiritual Life will begin the school year with a leadership structure and a new theme. After pausing the search for a new university chaplain, Dr. Ryan Richardson, vice president for student life, began to look at two people already involved in ACU spiritual formation. “I started to notice that between Nathan Kranz and Avory ... [Read More…]

With the official closure of Mabee Hall, the renovated Sikes Hall will take on the title of Mabee Hall. The new Mabee Hall will be open to house freshman women and men students in August 2024. This hall is the third and final installment of the Freshman Village project. Initiated in 2020, a series of residence hall renovations occurred on the ... [Read More…]

The university has delayed its deadline for admission for a month – to June 1 – as it has struggled to get financial aid information from the federal government. The FAFSA Simplification Act has led to a significant overhaul of the processes and systems used to award federal student aid, and every university is delayed in sending out the net ... [Read More…]

Alli Dimmitt, senior political science major from Naples, Florida, was named Miss ACU, and Parker Carson, senior biology major from Turkey, was awarded Mr. ACU award by the Student Government Association at the Senior Candlelight Sendoff on Sunday. Dimmitt said she was grateful to receive the award from her fellow students. "I just feel ... [Read More…]

The 40th annual Kirk Goodwin Run will take place Saturday and will benefit Dr. Cindy Roper, professor of communication, who suffered a stroke last year. Roper has been a professor at ACU for 30 years and recently suffered from a rare spinal stroke that left her paralyzed from the waist down. The Kirk Goodwin run will raise money to cover Roper’s ... [Read More…]

Five months after the departure of former university chaplain Cyrus Eaton, the Office of Student Life is still not close to finding his replacement. Dr. Ryan Richardson, vice president for student life, said that while the chaplain search committee has looked through resumes and conducted interviews with potential candidates, the committee ... [Read More…]

The Faculty Senate honored 50 students on Thursday with the University Scholars Award. Dr. Larry Isenhower said faculty nominated students in their department. Isenhower is in one of the faculty senate subcommittees choosing the scholars. "University scholars are representing students who have had the greatest success academically," said ... [Read More…]