Archive for ‘Events’

As a reminder, our Senior Leadership Team has given all staff members two extra days off this summer as paid holiday time as a bonus for all we have collectively accomplished this past year.  The “bonus” days are Friday, May 28, and Friday, July 2. The additional time has been added to your holiday leave balance in Banner for you to report as holiday time.

3D digital technology has come a long way, but remember how fun it was to use those 3D paper glasses. Relive your childhood and create your own 3D images. Join the Innovation Foundry on May 25th from 2-3 pm. This workshop will meet in person in the Innovation Foundry, but Zoom will be available. To RSVP click here.

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 3-4:30 p.m., with a program starting at 3:45 p.m., on the patio of Hunter Welcome Center. We hope you’ll join us!

Join us in the east lobby of Hunter Welcome Center from 3:30-4:30 p.m. on Friday, May 21, for a reception honoring ACU Foundation president Brad Benham, who is leaving to become chief development officer of the Hendrick Medical Center Foundation. Benham joined the Advancement division as a development officer in 2015 and succeeded Dan Garrett as president of the ACU Foundation in 2018. He also became director of the Lynay program in 2017, succeeding Dr. Gary McCaleb. We hope you can join us as we celebrate Brad’s service to ACU alumni, parents and friends.

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!

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.

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.

ACU’s fourth Day of Giving is tomorrow, and we need your help! We’ll be set up on the second floor of Hunter Welcome Center and have some stations where you can stop by and write a thank you note to our donors. If you have 30 minutes we would love to see you! Click here to sign up for a time slot to volunteer. Please email Jama Cadle at jama.cadle@acu.edu to let us know you are coming. If you haven’t made a gift, you don’t have to wait! You can give to any designation you wish, such as a department or program, with those gifts counting toward the event goal. Give today at acu.edu/wegive.  Thank you again for helping make Day of Giving a success and supporting our students!

You are invited to a come-and-go retirement reception to celebrate Toni Young’s years of service to ACU. The reception will be Monday, May 10, from 11 a.m.-noon, with a program starting at 11:30 a.m., on the patio of Hunter Welcome Center. We hope you’ll join us!