In this session we are going to show you how to use Canvas for your teaching needs, including creating assignments, quizzes, and announcements. We will also share some updated features such as the New Gradebook, Studio video, and content duplication features. Please also bring your questions about Canvas to this session.

Gain insight into the daily rigors of D1 athletics and how to understand student athletes better and ensure their learning in our courses.

This session will be led by two ACU professors whose roles intersect with athletes and the Athletic Department and ACU's Director of Compliance. The panel will provide valuable information to help ensure smooth and effective relationships between student athletes and professors.

This session is a repeat of the Digital Portfolio Workshop held last spring. Faculty can bring their last-minute questions as they are putting the finishing touches on their digital tenure and promotion portfolios.

The more we understand how people learn, the more effective classroom teachers we become. Drawing on research in a number of fields, Joshua R. Eyler identifies five broad themes running through recent scientific inquiry—curiosity, sociality, emotion, authenticity, and failure— discussing each one and providing practical takeaways. Join us for this reading group as we place theoretical insight in dialogue with classroom experience to help us improve as teachers.

Austin Channing Brown is a writer, speaker, and practitioner who helps schools, non-profits, and religious organizations practice genuine inclusion. In this two-hour session, Austin will highlight some of the most important moments in her book and help faculty consider ways to explore the intersections of racial justice and faith in their courses, assignments, and conversations.

Austin Channing Brown is a writer, speaker, and practitioner who helps schools, non-profits, and religious organizations practice genuine inclusion. This free public lecture will feature Austin discussing her work toward racial justice and her book, I'm Still Here.

When it comes to research assignments, Library faculty are excellent resources for creating new or modifying existing assignments that involve library research. Join a panel of ACU Library faculty and Adams Center staff to talk about some of the difficulties that students encounter as they are working on their research assignments and how faculty and librarians can work together on research-related assignments to make them successful learning experiences for your students.

This event has been canceled, please look for the next date scheduled in October. ///Recent and upcoming changes to the laws surrounding Title IX can leave faculty wondering how to best support our students. Join members of ACU's Title IX Team to discuss your questions and concerns related to mandatory reporting, learn about new options for reporting, and what happens following a report.

Leonard Allen PhD
Noted Church of Christ theologian John Mark Hicks recently observed that “Leonard Allen’s book is the most significant book to appear on the Holy Spirit among Churches of Christ since Robert Richardson’s 1873 A Scriptural View of the Office of the Holy Spirit.”
Dr. Leonard Allen, Dean of the College of Bible and Ministry at Lipscomb University will present at an Adams Center lunch on Monday, September 16. Formerly an ACU Bible faculty member, Allen will be on campus to speak for the Summit pathway, Spirit Shakeup.
Allen makes three claims in his book: (1) with the receding of Christendom in the west, a strong new focus on the mission of God has been emerging; (2) at the same time an unprecedented focus on the Holy Spirit has also emerged and (3) the renewal of mission and the Holy Spirit go hand in hand.
These three claims means that every Christian is a missionary in our new post-Christian context in the West, and it also means that every Christian is a charismatic, that is, indwelt and gifted by the Spirit for mission.
Allen’s book and a 2018 ACU Press best seller, Poured Out, provides personal reflection as well as a guide for a homiletic foray into a congregational focus on the Holy Spirit in the assembly’s worship and learning of God.

Shane Wood PhD
Adams Center Lunch
September 17, 2019
According to Shane Wood, “the problem of Eden is much worse than we thought, but the solution is much better than we could have ever imagined.” Plan on joining Shane Wood in the Adams Center for lunch at noon on Tuesday, September 17 after he presents the Summit Tuesday theme lecture in Moody at 11:00 am. Shane will address how he wrote the book, how it challenged him, and how that impacts the way he disciple his students.

After Wood completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh-Scotland, he became a New Testament professor and associate dean at Ozark Christian College, located in Joplin, Missouri. ACU Press/Leafwood published his book Between Two Trees this year. Noted theologian Scott McKnight recently highlighted Wood in his nationally recognized blog, Jesus Creed.

Between Two Trees reveals that the real tragedy of Eden is a union with death, a union that produces division and despair. Life isn’t lived under Eden’s tree of life or beneath the healing leaves of the tree in the New Jerusalem. It is lived between them. And between these two trees, life is hard. In spite of this tragedy, Wood will remind us to embrace hope, love, and the beauty of reconciliation at the true tree of life: the cross of Calvary.