A blog on the latest news and events for ACU faculty and staff
Drum Corps International will be performing on the ACU Campus on Tuesday, July 16! We would like to invite everyone to experience the musical power that Drum Corps International offers. Individual and Group tickets are available Here. If you have any questions about the show, please contact Dr. Dan Harbaugh at dan.harbaugh@acu.edu. We hope to see you at Wildcat Stadium on July 16!
A consultant from TIAA will be offering individual counseling sessions on campus to discuss your personal financial situation and retirement investments on June 11 and 12 in the Hardin Administration building Legal Conference Room-ADM 112. You can register for an appointment online by selecting the in-person option. Appointments fill up fast and are reserved on a first come, first served basis. Register here.
You and your covered dependents have access to The Standard’s Employee Assistance Program (EAP). This confidential service offers free over-the-phone counseling any time, day or night, to help you with a variety of personal situations. The EAP also provides up to 3 counseling sessions for both you and your covered dependents, either in person or over the phone. Counselors can help with concerns such as emotional well-being and health, relationships, parenting and addiction. To contact the EAP, call 888-293-6948, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to talk to a professional counselor. To register online, you will go www.healthadvocate.com/standard3.
The Staff Senate is pleased to announce that you have elected the following colleagues to serve as senators for the 2024-2026 term. Please congratulate them and share your ideas!
Arthur Brant
Amber Brokaw
Scott Hamm
Micah Heatwole
Larry Henderson
Anne Hocking
Makayla Kerrigan
Rachael Morales
Katrina Simpson-Pelleran
Jennifer West
To further enhance our commitment to protect you and your family, ACU provides Identity Theft coverage to all benefits-eligible employees at no cost to you. We also give you the option to purchase this coverage for your dependents. This service will offer income protection, reimbursement for allowable expenses related to the recovery of your identity, and a customer claims representative to aid you in the process of restoring your identity. You can contact AIG at 1-866-434-3572. Group #7077631
The ACU Faulkner Center for Marriage and Family is pleased to announce our fall speaker, Tish Harrison Warren. Tish is the author of Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life (Christianity Today’s 2018 Book of the Year) and Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work, or Watch, or Weep (Christianity Today’s 2022 Book of the Year and the 2022 ECPA Christian Book of the Year). Recently, Tish wrote a weekly newsletter for The New York Times and was a columnist for Christianity Today. Her articles and essays have appeared in Religion News Service, Christianity Today, Comment Magazine, The Point Magazine, and The New York Times. Please save the date for September 19th, 2024 at 6:30pm in the Hunter Welcome Center, when Tish will speak on, Marriage as Formation. This dinner event is sponsored by the Faulkner Center. Tickets will go on sale at a later date, so be watching for more details.
ACU Soccer is hosting our annual summer kids soccer camps on June 3-5 and July 15-17. We are looking forward to a tremendous staff of ACU Soccer coaches, players, and other professional coaches to put on the best soccer camp in the Big Country. Our camp will run from Monday to Wednesday from 9am-12pm 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 and there are discounts for ACU faculty/staff and for multiple brothers/sisters attending camp. Contact Head Coach Stephen Salas at stephen.salas@acu.edu for any questions.
ACU ALERT is an emergency notification system that gives Abilene Christian University the ability to send urgent and emergency information quickly by email and text message.
This s a free service to all ACU students, faculty and staff. If you have a good cell phone number registered with ACU, you will automatically receive messages unless you choose to opt out. You may opt out at any time by replying to the ACU ALERT messages with the word STOP.
If you don’t have a cell phone number registered with ACU, you can still opt in to this service. To enroll, log in to the user registration page with your email username and password, and complete the subsequent form. You can provide up to two cell phone numbers and one email address to receive the alerts.
Faculty and Staff have to renew their subscription to Alert every four years. If you did not receive the tornado warning and other bad weather messages over the last couple of weeks, please renew your subscription.
June 21-22 at 7:30 p.m. June 23 at 2 p.m. Tickets at acu.edu/theatre. Book by Adam Hester. Music by Jenavene Bazacas. Lyrics by Conrad Hester. Additional music/lyrics by Martha Heady. Directed by Adam Hester.
A musical romance infused with humor and heartache, After Zoey captures the passion of a 16-year-old dreamer who yearns for a full and healthy life as she battles a critical illness. Zoey exasperates her mother and sister with her cavalier attitude toward her health, but also finds in them her biggest champions. Zoey discovers love and a glimpse of eternity. After Zoey is a heart-warming, life-affirming musical.
Please join us for a retirement reception for Randy Scott on Tuesday, May 21 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Wildcat Stadium- Club Level on the 2nd floor.
