Archive for July, 2012

If you do not wish to have your personal information (home address and phone number) published in the 2012-13 Hello Book Faculty/Staff section, please change your Directory Profile in Banner by Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012.  To do this, go to the Personal Information tab on your myACU Banner page.  Select Directory Profile and remove the check from the Permanent Address and/or Permanent Telephone box under the Display in Directory column.  Please make sure to select Submit Changes.  This is the only way to ensure that your personal information is not included.  The Hello Book staff cannot remove your personal information from the report.

Did you know that MRIs and imaging services can often be cheaper at a freestanding facility, such as Medical Diagnostic Imaging of Abilene (MDI) located at 4349 South Treadaway Blvd.  Freestanding facilities often charge only a fraction of the cost charged by hospitals. For example, a knee MRI administered by MDI would cost  $433.11, whereas this same MRI administered at a hospital could cost $1, 962.79. Hospital radiology centers require round-the-clock staffing and often charge higher fees for their services to offset the costs of their 24/7 operations. Hospitals charge exorbitant fees for high-tech diagnostics, like MRIs, to subsidize other reimbursed services. By using a freestanding facility, patients can save up to 75 percent over having the exact same tests done at a hospital—and there’s no difference in quality.

All ACU faculty and staff should be receiving in their campus mail this month their free all-sports pass for the 2012-13 Wildcat athletics season.

Please take time to read through the following bullet points concerning the usage of your all-sports pass, as well as how you need to go about purchasing passes for your spouse and each dependent.

Thank you,
John Houser
Assistant Director of Athletics

1. All ACU Faculty and Staff will receive a free all-sports pass in the campus mail later this month. This pass is to be used for ACU faculty and staff to gain free admission to all ACU sporting events. All dependents and spouses will be charged to purchase an all sports pass. The prices for spouses or dependents 18 and older are $60 for the season. The prices for children 18 and younger as well as spouses 65 and older are $40 with a buy-one-get-one-free rate. There will no longer be free admission for dependents or spouses of faculty/staff to ACU Athletic events.
2. Because of the increased costs with the rental of Shotwell Stadium, as well as increases in costs to run games, pay officials, and pay staff, ACU athletics has been directed to change policies to help cover some of these costs. The cost of attending every sporting event ACU offers for a faculty or staff family of four is now only $100, less than $1 per event.
3. Your ACU ID card will no longer give you access to any sporting events on campus.  The only way to get into an ACU sporting event on campus is with your all-sports pass. If you lose your all-sports pass it will cost $10 to replace it.
4. If you were hired at ACU or started after July 1, 2012, please contact the ACU ticket office at 674-CATS and we will make sure you are in the system and you receive a free all-sports pass.
5.  If you have any questions, please feel free to call the ACU athletics ticket office at 674-CATS and we will be sure to get back with you as quickly as possible.
6. To order single-game or season tickets or all-sports passes, please visit acusports.com or visit our call center through Extreme Tickets, the company that will be handling all ticket orders for the 2012-13 season. You can order single-game or season tickets by calling 888-695-0888 Monday-Friday from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. (central time). For general questions about ticket orders you can call 325-674-CATS Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. To purchase tickets in person, please come to the Moody Coliseum basketball offices between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

If you are covered by ACU’s BCBSTX Medical plan, preventive immunizations administered by your physician or pharmacy are covered at 100%. Review the preventive immunization list.

Please note that policy changes have been made by the Texas Department of State Health Services. Children who are covered under a private insurance plan that include vaccination coverage will no longer be eligible for low cost immunizations at public health departments and will be referred to their private physician for immunization services. If your physician does not give immunizations, you can now contact a pharmacy such as Walgreens to see what immunizations they may provide.

Pray ACU is a daily prayer guide produced by the Center for Christian Service and Leadership that follows the school calendar. This guide is available to all students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni and ACU friends.

This fall we are expanding to include prayers written by ACU faculty and staff members.  If you would like to write a prayer for Pray ACU, please contact Jen Rogers (jen.rogers@acu.edu).

Attention all myACU users (which includes everyone)! myACU is undergoing a major update this summer, so IT is providing training for the new arrangement and functionality. We have the following dates scheduled for training:

August 9 (all day)
August 10 (8-noon)
August 13 (1-3)
August 14 (3-5)

All training will be conducted at the Nichols House across from Edwards Hall.

Please sign up early for a training session at acu.edu/training so we can make sure you have a slot available. We want to help you in this transition and make it as seamless as possible.

For any further questions regarding these training sessions, please contact Kristy Strickland (kristy.strickland@acu.edu) or Evan Young (evan.young@acu.edu). We will be more than happy to answer your questions.

Look forward to seeing you at training!

Are you interested in seeing the history of your filled prescriptions and how much you have spent? You can view this history. Just go to www.bcbstx.com, log in, click on Rx on the right-hand side, click on Prime Therapeutics on the top left hand side, agree to terms, and click on “Claim History.”

The process for posting open staff positions has changed, effective immediately.  Hiring managers now need to complete a Justification Document, which will be sent to and reviewed by his or her division head before filling on the Request for Personnel (RFP).  Please visit the Justification Document on the HR website to read a note from the Senior Leadership Team explaining the need for this new step.  Any questions may be directed to Robyn Smith in the HR office at robyn.smith@acu.edu or x2359.