A blog on the latest news and events for ACU faculty and staff
ACU will be closed from December 23 to January 1 for the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. We will reopen on Thursday, January 2. ACU’s holiday calendar can be viewed here.
Human Resources would like to invite all Faculty and Staff to a Christmas Luncheon in the Bean. Lunch will be served from 11:30 to 1:00 on Tuesday, December 17th. Faculty and staff with their ID cards will receive lunch at no charge. Family members and students may purchase a meal for $11.00.
The ACU Undergraduate Research, Creativity, and Innovation Festival is scheduled for Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in the Hunter Welcome Center. Please mark your calendars and begin encouraging students to think about projects to present at the festival. To learn more about the Undergraduate Research, Creativity, and Innovation Festival, watch this video.
Dr. Mark Hamilton and Dr. Kelli Gibson have edited volume II of Singing with the Shepherds: Meditations and Prayers for the Season of Advent. This collection is a collaboration from faculty, students, alumni and friends of the Graduate School of Theology at ACU. Many thanks to Mark and Kelli who have worked to create this this resource for the ACU Community.
Please make sure you completed the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities’ (CCCU) assessment of faculty and staff thriving survey by November 15. This instrument is designed to measure faculty and staff levels of thriving, which is defined as positive emotions and vital engagement in your role at ACU. The survey also assesses what it takes for university faculty and staff to thrive: aspects of the institutional environment that support or hinder your thriving. Our purpose is to discover the extent to which our faculty and staff are enjoying their work here, to uncover any gender or racial differences, and to surface the aspects of the environment that may be hindering your ability to thrive. The survey should only take 15 minutes to complete and all responses are confidential and only grouped data will be reported to the institution. These surveys will allow ACU to compare our results to other CCCU institutions.
Join us Thursday, November 14, from 7-8:15 p.m. in Boone Family Theatre as we launch a new series designed to bring speakers of national significance to Abilene for engaging discussions on global issues. The inaugural Big Country Conversations event features political analysts Paul Begala and Karl Rove, who will offer their unique perspectives on the presidential election and what’s next for the U.S. and Texas. The event is open to the community, general admission tickets are $25 each. Faculty and staff are welcome to use code WILDCAT25 for complimentary admission. If you have students who are interested in attending please email Blair Schroeder for details on reserving those seats.
The presentation slides from the Open Enrollment meetings are now available. Meetings are being held:
One Zoom meeting will be available on Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. for those who cannot attend an in-person meeting. Visit the HR Calendar to join the Zoom meeting. After clicking on the link above, you may have to choose ACU Human Resources within your “My calendars” section to view the calendar.
Plan to join your colleagues for university updates this week on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at noon or 4 p.m. We will meet in person at noon in the Hunter Welcome Center’s McCaleb Conference Center. At 4 p.m., we are piloting a virtual-only option, so faculty and staff who work remotely or are traveling will have the opportunity to participate in the meeting. Remote employees can access the virtual meeting here.
ACU provides faculty, staff, students and alumni unlimited access to RightNow Media—the world’s largest streaming library of video Bible study resources? This extensive library has more than 20,000 videos and the Bible study videos can be used as part of a group study or personal devotions. Many series include free discussion guides and handouts.
RightNow Media is a tool that can help you live out your faith in every area of your life—at home, at work, and in your community. In addition to series on books of the Bible, RightNow Media has videos for everyone in your family on various topics like marriage, parenting, personal finances, mental health, and more. There’s even a library for kids with over 2,000 safe, entertaining videos. RightNow Media has a free app available on all major streaming devices so you and your family can access content anywhere, anytime.
To sign up, just visit this personal invite link.
