Archive for March, 2015

Current ACU faculty and staff can purchase tickets to TEDxACU on April 17, 2015 for only $30. Register today at acu.edu/tedxacu/register.

The Women for ACU have begun taking applications for their scholarship to be awarded in the fall. Students must be entering junior or senior year in Fall 2015. Please encourage eligible students to apply for the scholarship. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 20.

The 7th Annual ACU Undergraduate Research Festival will be on Tuesday, March 31 from 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. in the Hunter Welcome Center. Stop by to see the exciting research performed by our students. A full schedule of events can be found at blogs.acu.edu/researchfest.

On Thursday, March 19th, faculty and staff will have two opportunities to discuss how to apply what we are learning in Barna Labs: noon in the Living Room and 4:00 p.m. in the Adams Center. Lunch will be provided at noon for those that RSVP by Wednesday to sherita.nickerson@acu.edu.  You can also access the archives and upcoming monthly webcasts by going to www.barnalabs.com and entering the password: millennial101.

As a new feature to the newsletter, HR will highlight specific policies on the second Monday of each month Be sure to watch for them!

Recently HR has been asked how to handle vendors who walk into offices trying to sell various services or items. ACU actually has policy on Solicitation and Distribution  that applies to both employees and non-employees. This policy allows you to politely inform any cold calls or walk-ins from salespeople that ACU has a no solicitation policy.

Some ACU employees have received calls from those identifying themselves as AT&T employees and offering a $20 credit on your bill in return for your answering a survey.  These responses in turn give them access to your account where they can make changes to your cell phone set up.

This is fraudulent and they are not ACU employees.  Please do not respond to their survey or give them any information about yourselves.

We’re excited to host Matt Rose of BNSF Railway Company as our spring 2015 Distinguished Speaker! Join us on April 7th for the Distinguished Speaker Series luncheon at 11:45 am in the Hunter Welcome Center. For more information on the DSS luncheon, go to acu.edu/coba or click this link to purchase your tickets. Please note that there is a separate registration for ACU Faculty and Staff where you can charge your ticket to a FOAP.

Public Comment Meeting
March 30, 2015, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Living Room of the Campus Center

The graduate program in speech-language pathology at Abilene Christian University is applying for re-accreditation from the Council on Academic Accreditation (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).  In accordance with the CAA policy on Public Comment, the program invites interested parties to attend a meeting on March 30, 2015 at 4:00 pm in the Living Room of the Campus Center on the ACU campus.

This meeting will be facilitated by CAA site visitors to address how the program is meeting the Standards for Accreditation.  A copy of the standards and/or the CAA’s Policy on Public Comment may be obtained by contacting the Accreditation Office at ASHA, 2200 Research Blvd, Rockville, Maryland, 20850, calling ASHA’s Action Center at 1-800-498-2071, or accessing the documents on ASHA’s website. Additional information regarding the time and location of this meeting may be obtained by calling Dr. Brenda Bender, Program Director, at 325-674-2074.

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The Meek Blood Care Center will be on campus from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 4. They are in need of people to donate. Their vehicle will be parked in between the Library and the AD Building at the times listed above.