Student Government Association and Student Life held their annual Litmas event Sunday night, featuring festive activities and live music. The event gathered students and community members from Abilene. Members of SGA served hot chocolate and apple cider, while various food trucks and pop-up vendors filled the campus mall. Santa Claus even made a ... [Read More…]
Olympic gold medalist calls for marrow donors in chapel
ACU alumnus Earl Young, Olympic gold medalist and leukemia survivor, will kick off the 2015 Delete Blood Cancer Relay in Chapel April 20. Young won his gold medal in the 4x400 meter relay in the 1960 Summer Olympic games in Rome. He later faced a bigger hurdle after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in 2011. He needed an immediate ... [Read More…]
Students to work ACU Leadership Camps half the summer
ACU Leadership Camps will employ about 90 students from all majors and classes this summer as camp counselors and staff. These students have been preparing since December for this summer's Leadership Camps, which consist of four different camps, each for a different age group. Most of the staff and leadership team are divided in half by those ... [Read More…]
ACU hires firm to study millennials
ACU is three months into a semester-long partnership with Barna Group, a research group surveying the student body and providing resources for the university to better engage in students' spiritual development. Barna Group, founded in 1984, tracks cultural and spiritual trends, offering statistics, resources, seminars and custom research to ... [Read More…]
Growing class sizes prompt underclassman housing plans
With the continuous growth of the student population, underclassman housing arrangements could see change, but not anytime soon. Bob Strader, director of residence life education and housing, said plans are in place to accommodate the growing class sizes. In 2012, some of the incoming freshman women were relocated to Sikes Hall, a sophomore ... [Read More…]
WANA spreads awareness of eating disorders
We Are Not Alone, or WANA, is a student-led group that has created a safe place for those battling eating disorders to talk about their experiences and how the disorder has affected them. For far too long, this disease has gone unknown and unrecognized. Jordyn Lee, a first-year graduate student in marriage and family therapy from Iowa, came ... [Read More…]
Office of Retention targets freshman class
The Office of Retention has set an expanded goal to reach out to the entire freshman class. Bart Herridge, dean of student services and retention, works each year to increase the amount of students who return to the university by plugging them into a program on campus. "We've got several programs that are designed to help in the retention ... [Read More…]
App for students acts as virtual billboard
A new app available to students provides a visual information stream for campus events. The CampusQuad app launched last week when Chris Riley, vice president of Student Life, offered doughnuts to students in the Campus Center who downloaded the app, which is free for all ACU students. The social media platform encourages students to create ... [Read More…]
Board funds “Family First” initiative
The Board of Trustees has designated funds for an initiative called "Family First" to enrich the marriages and families of ACU employees. Dr. Royce Money, chancellor of the university, said the move was driven by a general concern that family disruption is on the rise in our nation, and ACU is not exempt from that trend. "As a Christian ... [Read More…]
New leadership, ideas for Welcome Week, Passport
Changes to the First Year Program will result in a revamped Passport and Welcome Week for incoming students. According to an email from Dr. Robert Rhodes, provost, to all faculty and staff, both programs now exist under new leadership and are no longer part of the First Year Program. Passport now operates under the Office of Enrollment, but ... [Read More…]