The university's efforts over the past several years to satisfy its regional accrediting body have succeeded. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools notified the university late last semester that its accreditation with the organization has been reaffirmed. What's more, the reaffirmation comes with no required monitoring or probationary ... [Read More…]
University on track for accreditation
Members of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges will travel to ACU in April to complete the peer review portion as part of ACU's reaccreditations process. In September 2010, Dr. Nancy Shankle, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said she and other members of ACU's SACSCOC leadership completed the ... [Read More…]
QEP to expand research literacy
Dr. Phyllis Bolin, associate professor of mathematics, gets excited when she talks about ACU's Quality Enhancement Plan. The plan, which centers around "research literacy," aims not only to fulfill university recertification requirements but to enhance students' learning experience, Bolin said. But Bolin, chairman of the QEP Development Team, ... [Read More…]
COBA defines research differently, QEP
Steven Rizzotto and his classmates are a few of the many ACU students who performed research this semester. However, they may be the only students to conduct their research in the United Supermarkets grocery store on Judge Ely Boulevard. Rizzotto, junior marketing major from Sugar Land, conducted a study for a nonprofit organization on how ... [Read More…]