Archive for September, 2019

Get the shot and defend yourself against the flu! Flu shots are now available at the ACU Medical Clinic as well as several pop-up clinics around campus during October. The shot is free to all ACU insured employees, spouses and dependents.

Each of the following clinics will be held from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Oct. 1: Halbert Walling Research Center Lobby
Oct. 3: Campus Center
Oct. 8: Teague Center Lobby
Oct. 10: Business Building – Dean’s Conference Room
Oct. 15: Onstead Science Center Lobby
Oct. 17: Bible Building Hall of Servants
Oct. 22: SRWC Lobby

We want to hear from you about your thoughts on ACU’s technology services and how IT governance principles might be used improve these services to best meet campus needs. ACU IT invites you to join us for a come and go open forum to provide feedback on IT governance concepts, IT organizational assessment observations, and future IT strategic planning efforts. The open forum is designed to be highly interactive with visual display stations to spark conversation and feedback. Attendees can stop in any time during the event to provide feedback.

Please join us this Wednesday, October 2nd, from 1-2 p.m. or Thursday, October 3rd, from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. in the new Library Forum on the 3rd floor of the ACU Library. Faculty, staff, and students are all welcome to participate.

Textbook requests for the spring term are due October 14th.  You may submit textbook information and review past semesters at www.FacultyEnlight.com.  Please contact Shannon Wallis with any questions, shannon.wallis@acu.edu.

This is your final week to earn points towards your 2020 medical premiums. If you are participating in the wellness program, please be sure you have achieved your points by Monday, Sept. 30th. Login to your GPA member account (gpatpa.com) and click on the wellness tab to take you to the portal. To view your wellness points, click on My Activities at the top. To receive the full employee discount, you need to have at least 5 total points and one of those points being awarded for completing your annual exam. There is a progress bar at the bottom of the My Activities page that will show you what you have completed and received points for. If your spouse is covered on our plan, they will need to login to their GPA portal to see if they have credit for their exam. Spouses only need to have an annual exam for you to receive the spouse discount.

Last chance for Beats promotion! Thursday, Sept. 26, is the last day of the Back to School Beats promotion. Also, take advantage of lower prices on clearance laptops.

We are developing a First Generation Student Success Program on campus to provide a centralized contact/advocate for first generation students on campus. This program will provide group personal and professional development opportunities, mentorship, and community social activities to best serve this population of students.

We have begun surveying and discussing the structure of this program with students to develop a program that is truly geared to them and what they need here at ACU. We will have an interest meeting for students later this semester, and the plan is to launch this program officially with current students in the spring, and this summer with the 2020 freshman class.

For faculty and staff interested in being involved in this program as a mentor, or serving on an advisory board that meets a couple times each semester to discuss issues and challenges faced by first generation students here at ACU, please complete this survey, or email Jordan Jones at jwj16a@acu.edu. We would really like as much campus involvement as possible to make this program a success for our students.

ACU’s IT Department works diligently to provide services that help to keep your ACU email safe, but what are the steps you need to be doing to keep your account safe? Join us Sept. 24 from 9:00 – 9:50 a.m. in the Innovation Foundry to learn more. RSVP

Innovation Foundry in partnership with the MakerLab invite you to learn how to use the Vinyl Cutter to create custom stickers and T-Shirts at our Maker Monday session on Sept. 23 from 12-12:50 p.m. RSVP

Do you have upcoming events that you need to advertise on myACU or other social media outlets? On Sept. 17 from 11:30 a.m. – 12:50 p.m., we will walk through the basics of Adobe Illustrator to create myACU ads. Lunch will be provided for this session! RSVP

As a reminder, the University’s Driver Policy requires all routine drivers to meet the insurability standards established by our liability carrier. A Routine Driver is defined as a vehicle operator who is authorized to operate a vehicle on a routine or regular basis (more than four times per month) to conduct university business. University Business is defined as any activity by a person representing the University that is determined to be within the scope of his or her assigned duties and includes university sponsored or approved activities.

1) Routine drivers must have their Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) screened at least once every 12 months to ensure their driving record remains acceptable; and
2) Complete web based driver safety course