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With the recent announcement of Apple’s new iPad device, ACU is considering the implications of this device – and other similar ones that may follow it – for the future of mobile learning on campus.
The Abilene Reporter-News ran an article on Friday detailing some of the university’s plans, which include working to make The Optimist [...]
Beloved coach, teacher Willard Tate dies
Late Friday night, former ACU basketball coach and communications department faculty member Willard Tate died at age 74 after a struggle with cancer. The news was noted on ACU’s Facebook fan page, and comments from former students and friends are pouring in with personal memories of one of Abilene Christian’s most beloved people of the past four [...]
iPhone, iPod touches for all full-time students
Perhaps a little lost in the hoopla surrounding the iPad announcement and related news from campus was the word last week that ACU’s mobile-learning initiative would be adding juniors and seniors to the plan.
That means all full-time students at ACU in Fall 2010 will have iPhones or iPod touches to use in and out of [...]
ACU receives media coverage related to iPad
Since Wednesday’s announcement of the iPad, the technological world has been speculating on how this device will be used – for business, personal and educational purposes. ACU, with its already-strong connection to Apple’s array of products, has received a slew of media coverage since the announcement.
Dr. William Rankin, director of educational innovation, who was [...]
Apple, ACU featured on NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News’ coverage of today’s Apple announcement of the iPad includes a spotlight on the innovative mobile-learning initiative here at Abilene Christian University, where the iPhone and iPod touch are being integrated throughout the academic environment.
Anchor Brian Williams introduces the story by George Lewis, which has footage from an Abilene Christian biology class taught [...]
JMC to publish The Optimist on new iPad
ACU’s Department of Journalism and Mass Communication has announced plans to publish its award-winning student newspaper, The Optimist, on Apple’s new iPad device.
The iPad, larger than a smartphone but smaller than a laptop, was announced today by the company, and ACU’s JMC department already has big dreams for how to use it in the near [...]
Our 24 Malagasy scholars
Nearly all of the students are back in Madagascar and will meet us in Antananarivo. Here are the 24, with the degree(s) they earned from ACU, and their major in parentheses:
Bachelor of Business Administration
• Manampiaina Andrianelinjaka from Antanarivo, Madagascar (Accounting and Finance)
• Tojo Hery Patrick Andrianony from Antananarivo, Madagascar (Marketing)
• Moustafa Laza Assany from Antsiranana [...]
