Drizzly weather greeted Wildcat Week volunteers and new students as they made their way to campus for move-in day on Tuesday.  Residence halls opened up to students, parents, Wildcat Week leaders and friends from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. to move incoming freshmen and transfer students into their first-year living spaces.  Macy Frost, a freshman ... [Read More…]

Chapel will return in the Teague Special Events Center after a year off due to COVID-19 despite no Opening Ceremonies taking place on the first day of class. Before the 2020-21 school year, Chapel was traditionally has taken place in Moody Colosseum. However, due to the construction on campus chapel will moved into Teague for the start of the ... [Read More…]

Bullock Hall opened its doors to Residence Life staff and incoming freshmen this week after being under construction since September of last year. The hall is a co-ed residence hall housing freshmen with a total of 178 women and 54 men. The building was set to be complete in the beginning of August according to original construction timelines, ... [Read More…]

Dr. Bill Carroll is set to take over the position of Assistant Provost for Graduate Programs after Dr. Donnie Snider retires this year. This position will oversee the graduate programs, primarily the residential programs, and oversees the residential communication and speech disorders program. Carroll, professor of Language and Literature, said ... [Read More…]

Dr. Billy Curl, one of the first black students to attend ACU, visited campus April 28. Ryan Bowman, OMA director, interviewed Dr. Curl about what his experience was as one of the only black men at ACU. “There is no comfortable conversation around this especially from an African American standpoint,” said Bowman. “But the point of this ... [Read More…]

The student body voted to pass an amendment to the SGA constitution last week that will allow 3% of the total budget as well as any surplus to be allocated to the university endowment. "At its most basic form, this endowment fund is an investment of our money," said Daniel Sherman, president of SGA and senior business management major from ... [Read More…]

After a year of canceled flights and forsaken travel plans, the Study Abroad Office is hopeful to send students overseas to Oxford and Leipzig in the fall of 2021.  COVID-19 continued to make study abroad a challenge for the university and the students. Despite the challenges, the Study abroad office is hopeful for the future. “We are hopeful ... [Read More…]

May commencement is taking place Friday, Saturday and Sunday as 2021 undergraduate and graduate students accept their diplomas. In total between both semesters, ACU saw 1,187 graduates and now seniors are in the process of finding job placements nearing graduation. ACU’s Career Center keeps stats on the graduating students and their placement ... [Read More…]

SGA has announced their new executive cabinet for the 2021-22 school year. Alongside with President Bekah Jones and Vice President Boone Denton, the executive cabinet includes Jackson Suss as Treasurer, Nathan Marshall as CFO, Lindsey May as Press Secretary, Skye Gill as Chief of Staff, Brantley Brumley as Marketing Director, and Marlyn Allen as ... [Read More…]