ACU ranked number 100 on Forbes' list of financially sound, private and not-for-profit colleges in FORBES College Financial Grades. The new financial grades were determined by looking at the balance sheets and the operational strength of each university. Forbes determined the financial GPA for ACU is 3.737, which put ACU in the "A" grading ... [Read More…]
Keeping traditions: A letter to freshmen
It's the start of another new school year, and there are plenty of bright-eyed and eager new faces walking these hallowed halls. While the university tries to impart as much wisdom as it can on freshmen during Welcome Week, certain details always seem to fall through the cracks. ACU is all about traditions. You've already experienced the ... [Read More…]
The ebb and flow of time in Wildcat Nation
Life is all about change. The familiar is comfortable though, like a warm blanket keeping the cold uncertainty of life at bay. Yet change is one of humanity's most important characteristics. The ability to reinvent one's self, the opportunity to strike out and do something completely new is the most formative force in life. Change, good and bad, ... [Read More…]
CFO preparing to leave post
Chief Financial Officer Kelly Young will take a new role with Abilene Christian Investment Management Company, the endowment management arm, as soon as a new CFO is chosen. Young said he will most likely become the Vice President or Managing Director for Direct Investments for ACIMO. He said after 15 years of serving in senior administration at ... [Read More…]
Cartoon: ACU Appropriate
Evan's Marks by Evan Marks "ACU Appropriate" ... [Read More…]
‘ACU Appropriate’ shouldn’t be all-inclusive
"Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore." Such is the declaration when visiting one of ACU's fellow "Christian" universities. For ACU students, so foreign is the concept of mixed-gender bunking dormitories and Sundays spent sans church. In the opposing corner, so strange is the thought of a school with rulings against shorts and mandatory meal prayers. ... [Read More…]
Horizon team turns in final report to president, provost
The Horizon Team finalized their report to the university and disbanded shortly thereafter. The team was created in the fall of 2011 by President Phil Schubert to conduct research on the future of higher education. Dr. Mark Phillips, assistant professor of management, chaired the team, which consisted of five members pulled from a variety of ... [Read More…]
ACU Press releases new story compilation
Abilene Christian University Press partnered with the Grace Museum on Thursday to release the book, Abilene Stories: From Then to Now, an anthology written about Abilene over the past 130 years. In the ballroom of the Grace the editors of the book, Glenn Dromgoole, Jay Moore and Joe W. Specht gathered with over 200 Abilene locals, history buffs ... [Read More…]
Faculty numbers rise after realignment dip
Dr. Phil Schubert, president of the university, stood before a packed Hart Auditorium last October, preparing to give some of the worst news to the university in his year-and-a-half as president. Hundreds of faculty and staff members listened intently to his outline of a new budget plan that would cut nearly $10 million from the university's ... [Read More…]
Professors’ denominations: Far from ACU’s ideals
Find the opposing argument here: http://www.acuoptimist.com/2012/12/professors-denominations-diversity-academic-integrity-a-benefit/. Many students, professors, alumni and staff of ACU have expressed concerns with a possible change in current hiring criteria. Their concerns are well founded. By hiring non-Church of Christ faculty and staff, ACU ... [Read More…]
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