Archive for February, 2025

Founder’s Club student-run businesses are hosting a pop up in the Campus Center on Wednesday, February 12, from 10 am to 2 pm. Come shop and support our student entrepreneurs!

Calling all staff! Let’s have lunch together! In an effort to encourage community among staff across departments, let’s meet in the Bean Smart Room monthly and have lunch together. This is a self-pay event. Our next lunch will be Feb. 13 at 12pm. If you have any questions, email or call Ola Mae Bulkley, omb19a@acu.edu or 2204.

If you have remaining funds in your flexible spending account from 2024, you have until 3/15/2025 to use your Discovery Benefits debit card to pay for 2024 claims. After that time, you will only have access to your funds by filling out a manual claim form through 3/31/2025. On 4/1/2025, the 2024 plan year will close and any funds remaining will be inaccessible. Please also be sure that you have substantiated any prior claims that you used your FSA funds to pay for by this time as well. Failure to substantiate your claims could result in you having to repay those funds to Discovery Benefits.

This Friday, February 7, is Coffee with KACU at 8:30 am at the station (DMC room 100)! KACU is launching our local talk show “West Texas Dispatch” on February 3rd at 12pm! Meet our host George Levesque and the rest of the team! The West Texas Dispatch is KACU’s weekly talk show dedicated to serving the listeners of Abilene and beyond with news and information that reflects the unique spirit, needs, and issues of our region as well as celebrating the best parts of the Big Country and West Texas.

ACU Soccer is hosting its annual summer kids soccer camps June 2-4 and July 14-16. We are looking forward to a tremendous staff of ACU coaches, players and other professional coaches to put on the best soccer camp in the Big Country. The camp will run Monday through Wednesday from 9 a.m.-noon for boys and girls ages 4-13. This is open to kids of all abilities and experience. There will be prizes, competitions, an ACU Soccer camp shirt, and tons of fun! Registration can be found at www.acusoccercamps.com. Discounts are available for ACU faculty/staff and for multiple brothers/sisters attending camp. Contact head coach Stephen Salas at stephen.salas@acu.edu for the discount code and for any questions. Go Wildcats!

The Office of Intercultural Engagement and Belonging invites you to join them for these Black History Month Events.

Please join the A Cappella Chorus for their home concert as they prepare to perform for the Texas Music Educators Association. An invitation to perform at TMEA — the largest music conference of its kind in the world – is a singular honor. The last time A Cappella performed at TMEA was 1983. We are only one of two Texas universities invited to perform for this distinguished audience. The A Cappella Home TMEA Concert is Sunday, February 9, 3:00 pm, in the Boone Family Theatre. The concert is approximately 75 minutes in length.

Send your littles to ACU Volleyball’s 1st ever spring break camp! March 10-15th from 9-3pm the volleyball coaching staff will be hosting clinics for 1st-6th graders. Find more information at acuvbcamps.com. All staff/faculty will receive 10% off registration!

Make plans to join us Sunday, March 30, for our annual Alumni Day Luncheon! This year we’ll honor Greg Feasel (’81), president and chief operating officer of the Colorado Rockies and our Outstanding Alumnus of the Year, and April (Ward ’06) Farris, justice of the Texas 15th Court of Appeals and our Young Alumna of the Year. Tickets are $30 per person or $240 for a reserved table of eight. Register here or pay by FOAP here. Registration closes March 25.