Construction and renovation of ACU’s new Oxford house for the Oxford study abroad program will be put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The house, which was originally supposed to be ready by the beginning of the fall semester, is located at 163 Woodstock Road, covering 6457 square feet and has eight bedrooms, six bathrooms, two kitchens, ... [Read More…]
Annual Makerfest will continue online
ACU's annual Makerfest is one of the many events forced to go virtual this year due to the coronavirus. The event will take place online from April 16- 30. "The last 5 years Makerfest has been a combination of people showing off projects that they made in the Maker Lab, combined with maker lab staff helping them through the process," said Darren ... [Read More…]
New program allows students free access to achieve Adobe certification
Adobe certifications that would cost students over 300 dollars are now being offered for free through the Adobe Certified Associate program, the only Adobe-authorized certification program. Certifications are available in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Dreamweaver and Animate. “Dr. John Weaver, former Dean of ... [Read More…]
Wildcat Ventures hiring new CEOs
Wildcat Ventures, a portfolio of ACU student-run businesses, is hiring new CEOs for four out of five of the companies for the 2020-2021 school year. ARG, The Crossing Café, PCT, and Wildcat Software are all looking to hire new CEOs. Purple Outfitters is the only company that already has a CEO that will be staying on for this next ... [Read More…]
Children’s Arts and Literacy Festival open for registration
Registration for the annual Children’s Arts and Literacy Festival is now open. The CALF has become a huge event in Abilene ever since it began in 2012. Art lovers from all over travel to Abilene to partake in this festival. The theme for the CALF this year is dedicated to author and artist, Loren Long. Sidney Levesque, director of ... [Read More…]
FilmFest to be livestreamed
FilmFest, an annual film festival in Abilene, was scheduled to take place on April 3. With classes and many events canceled, it has been announced that FilmFest will now be live streamed at 7 p.m. on April 23. ACU FilmFest began in 2005 and has since given students the ability to show off their skills. ACU alumni and professionals in the film ... [Read More…]
SGA to hold interest meetings online via Google Hangout
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, SGA is hosting virtual interest meetings for officer positions online for the upcoming school year via Google Hangout. As the spring semester begins to wind down, SGA members are searching for those interested in running for officer positions for the upcoming school year. SGA President Lauren Wasson said ... [Read More…]
ResLife has new measures to keep residents safe
Residence Life has implemented new measures to keep remaining residents safe. On March 20, ACU President Phil Shubert announced via email that residents have until May 31 to move out of their residence halls: "At this time, out of an abundance of caution and care, we are limiting access to our residence halls to students who currently meet ... [Read More…]
Students working in food service, retail are being compensated exponentially less
Recent executive orders limiting dining in restaurants restrict the pay for servers in the food service industry, many of which are students. Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order on March 19 closing all restaurants and bars, with the exception of To-Go food and beverages, until April 3. On March 31, he updated that order by ... [Read More…]
Prospective students take university’s first ever virtual tour of campus
About 1,400 prospective students registered to join the university's first ever virtual tour of campus on April 3. The number of students that were registered for the virtual event tripled the largest number of students the university has seen for a single campus visit experience. Of the students that registered to join, about half were high ... [Read More…]
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