by Amanda Pittman | Mar 16, 2011 | Careers In..., Current Students
ACU’s Career Center and COBA are honored to welcome the following employers for on-campus interviews in the next few weeks:
PFSweb – Tuesday, March 22nd
Weaver Tidwell – Wednesday, March 23rd
Whitley Penn – Thursday, March 24th
Lane Gorman Trubitt – Monday, March 28th
PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Wednesday, March 30th
If you work in HR or are a hiring manager for your company, and would like to schedule on-campus interviews, or find out more about how you can recruit on our campus, please contact Tim Johnston (johnstont@acu.edu) or
Bradon Owens (bradon.owens@acu.edu).
by Amanda Pittman | Mar 16, 2011 | COBA Events, Current Students
We’re currently in the middle of Spring Break here at ACU – which means three things:
1) It’s really quiet on campus
2) There’s only about 7 weeks of class left
3) We’re gearing up for the Senior Blessing
The Senior Blessing is a special time for all graduating seniors from the b-school and the i-school to gather for a meal and a time of blessing from their faculty and staff. This year we’ll gather at the Phillips home and after we eat, a professor will speak to our students – offering some of the most important little nuggets of advice they want to make sure the students hear before they leave us and enter the “real world”.
We’ll then have the opportunity to break into small groups, where professors and students can have candid conversations about such topics as work-life balance, salary negotiations, and the importance of staying Christ-centered in an ego-centric world.
Finally, we all gather together for a special prayer of blessing to wrap up our day.
As we hear from graduates months and years after they leave us, many mention the Senior Blessing as one of their favorite memories from ACU. They share how special it was to them that we took time away from campus – work and classes – to gather for a time of intentional prayer and blessing as we send them out for ‘Christian service and leadership throughout the world’.
If you have a senior business school or i-school student, make sure they RSVP to Kathy Garison (klg08e@acu.edu) by April 1st.
And if you have a special memory from your Senior Blessing, please leave a comment.
by Amanda Pittman | Mar 10, 2011 | College Decisions, Current Students
A father of a current business student sent us this email at the end of his daughter’s first semester at ACU (we did change their names) :
Six months ago I was talking with another parent about ACU. I said “I am not sure about ACU for the retention numbers are low based on a magazine I was reading about colleges in Texas. West Texas? Religion and School in the same breath? Cost? Julie will most likely go to A&M, UT or UTSA. Good luck to you and your daughter.”
Then we were invited to Maggiano’s for a dinner in Dallas. I said to Julie “let’s go and listen to what ACU has to offer. It will be a great meal and we will be able to start asking questions of ACU to make us feel better about the other schools at the top of your list”.
After the dinner on the ride home Julie said to me “dad I am not sure exactly why but ACU feels right for me”. Wow! Ok Julie it was a good feeling tonight but we do not know enough about ACU to start changing your plans. We should visit the college.
Julie & I visited ACU in November and yes we both were in agreement that it felt cozy. Julie’s mom & dad met in college. Rider College had a total enrollment of about 3,000 students. Small private business school. We had a great time and enjoyed the intimacy of the relationships with the Faculty and fellow students. We were part of something special and I was getting the same feeling for Julie.
So over the 2009 holidays the comments from Julie (when speaking with family & friends) quickly shifted from A&M or UT to ACU. Mom & Dad were glad to hear her words and we were sharing the same thoughts and conversations.
Then in February we arrived on campus for the Presidential Scholarship interviews. This was Julie’s mom’s first visit. While Julie was off interviewing, her mom and I went for a walk by ourselves around the campus. We talked about our college days and how ACU brought back many memories. We talked about education, social life and maybe Julie would find her spouse on this campus the way mom and dad found one another. It was a great walk! Then I made sure we were at Chapel for her to witness that experience. After Chapel my wife said “this is it! It feels right and Julie will love it here!” I agreed.
We shared our feelings with Julie for the three hour ride home. The three of us were on the same page!
At home, without Julie in the conversation, I said to my wife “how will we pay for this opportunity that we all agree is the perfect fit?” Gina (the none worrier in our marriage) said “if it was meant to be it will happen some how.” Gina is the calming influence in my life that I am sooo thankful to God for her.
Then the call from Ben this week. Ben shared the great news with the three of us together. Ben said “Julie is a recipient of the Presidential Scholarship” Those words are still ringing in my head.
The three of us all looked at one another and knew we had been blessed. We were so happy that we cried together. What a wonderful feeling. The school that looked right, felt right and seemed so right from all perspectives was now going to becoming reality!!!
I am sorry that I took so much time to simple say THANK YOU!!! But, I wanted each of you to know first hand that you folks have touched our family in such a blessed way that saying Thank You will never be enough. From the dinner at Maggiano’s were Dr.Lytle and I had a 10-15 minute conversation alone to the calls and e-mails from Ben & Julie and the warmth they made our family feel for our 2 campus visits to the classroom discussion with Amanda around the details about COBA. Thank you very much!!!
The ACU experience has begun for our family and we are so proud to be part of this wonderful family.
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If you have a student or know of someone that would be interested in learning more about the College of Business at ACU, please contact jav04a@acu.edu. We’d be honored to share more about ACU with you.
by Blogs Administrator | Sep 29, 2009 | Careers In..., CCCU, Current Students
Junior Marketing major, Tyler Sutphen, wants to be in the music business. He’s not exactly sure what he wants to do in the music business – producer, performer, promoter – so he headed to Nashville this semester to learn about all the possibilities. Tyler is attending CCCU’s Contemporary Music Center this Spring. He’s earning 15 hours of credit and is smack dab in the middle of the music industry. We caught up with Tyler his second week there. Here’s what he had to say:
Tyler in action at the CMC in Nashville, TN
The faculty here are all pretty seasoned veterans of the music business. They include professional artists, songwriters, and people that have held almost every job in the industry. You couldn’t ask for better staff. They have already provided access to so may opportunities for us.
I already feel really close to some of the students here. There are 30 of us, and, to be honest, this whole experience feels more like camp than school. We’re becoming a tight knit group already.
Within the first week we visited Toby Mac’s studio, Kelly Clarkson’s musical director’s house, and Blackbird Studio, which is arguably the best studio in the world. Not to mention that the first night we arrived, Kelly Clarkson herself actually showed up to sing us a few songs. I’m really looking forward to who we get to meet next.
I’m really looking forward to being able to play music everyday. Almost everyone here, regardless of what track they are in, plays an instrument, and loves to jam.
I can’t wait to go on tour. The week that we will be traveling around playing shows is going to be as real as it gets. I’m going to be on tour with a band, and getting school credit for it.
Here’s what the director, Warren Pettit, wrote about Tyler:
“He is doing a great job and we love having him around. Students from ACU have always been among our best applicants and we look forward to serving more of your students in the near future.”
For more information on the Center for Contemporary Music, visit their website here.
