Missions Week is beginning Monday Oct. 28 and going through Saturday Nov. 2 with numerous events and opportunities to learn more about missions at ACU and around the world. Assistant Coordinator of Worldwide Witness Anne Hocking has planned the annual event and says that this year Missions Week is the biggest its been. “This is officially the ... [Read More…]

Worldwide Witness is taking applications for new participants. They are looking for new people to come in and travel the world to do God’s hands-on work.  Worldwide Witness is an organization on campus that recruits people to come do service in other countries around the world to spread the love and knowledge of Jesus. The process begins every ... [Read More…]

Pledging on ACU's campus is nearing its end of the season. However, a couple social clubs had something special to celebrate this year. Two ACU female social clubs celebrated anniversaries with special activities at ACU Homecoming last week. Ko Jo Kai marked its 100th anniversary. Meanwhile, Sigma Theta Chi celebrated its 50th ... [Read More…]

The Department of Journalism and Mass Communication honored three distinguished ACU alumni Thursday at the 27th annual Gutenberg Celebration. The three honorees included: John Scaggs, CEO of Way Media in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Michael Hagerty, senior producer of Houston Matters in Houston, and April Farris, appellate partner at Yetter Coleman ... [Read More…]

The timeless Broadway-style musical of Beauty and the Beast will be preformed three times during Homecoming Week. This play is a large production. It took four semitrailers to bring in the set and costumes for the play. Catherine Baumgardner, the head of costume, oversaw the unloading of the set and costumes. “This is a large production,” ... [Read More…]

One-in-every-four full time college students across America suffer from food insecurity and the repercussions that follow if not acted upon.  The stereotype of “starving college student” is not just a stereotype, it has become a fact for roughly 25 percent of four-year college students across the United States. For community college students, ... [Read More…]

Students showed up and showed out Friday night at the Black Student Union talent show.  The talent show took place in Hart Auditorium in the Onstead-Packer Biblical Studies Building, Friday night at 6:30 p.m. Aside from members of Black Student Union, all students were welcome.  No auditions were held prior to the show, but there was an interest ... [Read More…]

ACU is changing the payroll method from a monthly payroll to a bi-weekly payroll for all of its faculty and staff members starting January 2020.  For the last 3 years there have been different methods on how each employee is paid depending on if they were a student, staff or faculty. The Human Resources Office was looking for a more efficient way ... [Read More…]

The 2019 Annual Campus Crime, Security and Fire Safety Report showed a decrease in on-campus burglaries. The annual report shows the statistics representative of the past three years, 2016, 2017 and 2018, for the ACU main campus in Abilene, ACU-Dallas campus in Addison and the three ACU Study Abroad campuses at Leipzig, Germany, Montevideo, ... [Read More…]

The women’s rugby club has become active again after a hiatus due to lack of players from previous years. The women’s rugby club was formed in January 2017 after the men’s rugby club formed in 2015. The rugby teams started as an organization with SGA and then worked with athletics to become a club sport. Neither the women’s or men’s teams are ... [Read More…]