Archive for May, 2021

You are invited to a come-and-go retirement reception to celebrate Billie Currey’s years of service to ACU. The reception will be Wednesday, May 19, from 3:30-5 p.m., with a program starting at 4:15 p.m., on the patio of Hunter Welcome Center. We hope you’ll join us!

The Staff Senate election process has concluded. Below are your newly elected senators who will serve the 2021-23 term.

Leah Andrews
Darci Armstrong
Amy Boone
Lyndi Felan
Hutton Harris
Kayla Hewitt
Makayla Jones
Zach Snyder
Evan Steele
Scott Warren

Thank you for your participation in this process. To learn more about Staff Senate, please visit the Staff Senate blog. The link to this blog may be found any time through Quicklinks, on the myACU homepage.

With today’s stress and continued uncertainty, we believe it is more important than ever that employees take care of themselves. Therefore, we want to make sure employees are aware of the different options available to them.  No one should feel alone or without the information, support, and help they need.

ACU MEDICAL AND COUNSELING CARE CENTER The ACU Medical and Counseling Care Center accepts employees and their families for appointments. ACU has licensed counselors that you can meet with at a reduced cost and all visits are completely confidential. For more information, you can call their offices at 325-674-2625 to ask questions or schedule an appointment.

EMPLOYEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ACU offers you and your family members no-cost access to licensed counselors through our Employee Assistance Program (EAP). The EAP is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, regardless of whether you elect other benefits coverage through ACU. The EAP offers 100 percent confidential assistance with a variety of situations, including addiction, stress and anxiety, relationship problems, and financial challenges. Our EAP vendor has also created a coronavirus-specific phone line: 866-912-1687. The EAP can be reached 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by calling 800-538-3543 or visiting cignalap.com.

Beginning Monday, May 10, the finance office cashier will be open on Mondays and Thursdays only from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Please note we will be opening and closing 1/2 hour earlier than past operating hours.

During the month of July, the SRWC will offer Red Cross group swim lessons for Preschool Aquatics (4-5 years old) and Learn-to-Swim Level 1 (5-6.5 years old). Click on the above links for class descriptions and registrations. If you have any questions, please contact Alyssa Hawkins at akh04b@acu.edu.

It’s time for summer camp! We hope all of our faculty and staff will sign their kids up for sports camps. As usual, there is a discount code for each camp. Here they are: Baseball- ACUSTAFFBB Camp Wildcat- ACUSTAFFCW Football- ACUSTAFFFB Golf- ACUSTAFFGOLF Men’s Basketball- ACUSTAFFMBB Soccer- ACUSTAFFSOC Softball- ACUSTAFFSB Tennis- ACUSTAFFT Track & Field- ACUSTAFFT&F Volleyball- ACUSTAFFVB Women’s Basketball- ACUSTAFFWBB

Mail Services will be open Monday through Friday 8 a.m.-noon and 1-5 p.m. We will close for lunch. Just as a reminder, we are a drop-off location for all carriers. UPS and USPS carriers pick up daily at 4:30 p.m. DHL, FedEx Express and FedEx Ground pick up daily at 3 p.m.

Join us for Commencement this weekend as we celebrate our newest alumni.  The ceremonies honoring both December 2020 and May 2021 graduates will be on Anthony Field in Wildcat Stadium.

Faculty and administrators who are participating should report to the Brown Family Club Level at Wildcat Stadium in full regalia and a mask at the following times:

• 7 p.m., Friday, May 7 for the  8 p.m. ceremony for all graduate programs
• 10 a.m., Saturday, May 8 for the 11 a.m. — ceremony for undergraduate programs in the colleges of Arts and Sciences and Biblical Studies
• 7 p.m., Saturday, May 8 for the 8 p.m. ceremony for undergraduate programs in the colleges of Business Administration; Education and Human Services; Graduate and Professional Studies; and the School of Nursing.

The health and safety protocols for Commencement include the following:

• Faculty (Club Level seating), students and escorts (on the field) and platform participants will be seated in physically distanced chairs.
• Masks are required inside buildings; masks are not required outside.
• Platform participants will not shake hands with graduates during the ceremony.
• Hand sanitizer will be available.
• For those who cannot attend, we will share a link to join the livestream.

Departmental and online program receptions will be after each ceremony on the football practice field south of the stadium. Signs will indicate where faculty and students from individual departments and online programs will gather. Bottles of water will be available.

Please use the Adoptions & Insight Portal (AIP) to submit your textbook adoptions for summer and fall. The link is also available under QuickLinks on myACU. As you may have heard, submitting textbook adoptions before finals week is even more important this year so that we can buy as many used copies from students as possible.  This will also help us retain rental copies for use in the fall.  The wholesale book market is seeing low inventory levels simply because COVID has impacted buybacks and the selling of used books over the last 12 months.  Our wholesale partner, MBS Textbooks, is increasing a lot of buyback prices this semester so our students can benefit even more from selling their books at our buyback.