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Special awards honor prestigious seniors

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A few graduating seniors will be honored Saturday with special awards and scholarships. Every year, the Student Life Committee, which is made up of faculty and students representing the different colleges on campus, selects students to recognize for their contribution to ACU. Graduates will not be notified of their awards until Friday night at ... [Read More…]

Surviving the end of days (aka graduation)

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A few hundred students this week are stumbling around with little to no sleep and the weight of their future on their shoulders. It's easy to pick out the seniors from the crowd this week as graduation swiftly approaches. Graduating used to be fun, when moving from the second to the third grade meant an end-of-the-year party with cupcakes and a ... [Read More…]

Ceremonies to honor 508 seniors

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On Saturday, 508 students will walk across the stage in Moody Coliseum to receive their diplomas during two graduation ceremonies. The first ceremony at 11 a.m. will honor 267 undergraduates and 51 graduates from the College of Arts and Sciences.  The second ceremony, which starts at 3 p.m., will honor 241 undergraduates and 64 graduate students ... [Read More…]

Grads preparing for celebrations

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Graduation commencement ceremonies will take place May 11 at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. in Moody Coliseum, honoring just under 500 students graduating from the university. Dr. Eric Gumm, registrar and director of the First-Year Program and Academic Development, said 497 students have been cleared to graduate, with students split evenly between the two ... [Read More…]

Mother, son to graduate together

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Like mother, like son. Graduation announcements have been sent out and congratulation cakes have been ordered. Come May 11, while most parents will be in the audience snapping pictures of their child collecting their diplomas, Jo Ann Evans will follow her son Bryan Evans to receive her own. Jo Ann Travis Evans first arrived on ACU campus in 1976 ... [Read More…]

Ceremony sends off seniors

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Nearly 200 undergraduate students received their diplomas on Dec. 14 in Moody Coliseum. "It's really strange graduating a semester early, because a vast majority of my friends still have a whole semester to spend together," said Carrie Baker, senior psychology major from Plano. "That's probably the saddest part about it, that I have to leave my ... [Read More…]

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