{"id":1807,"date":"2019-11-27T10:43:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/undergradresearch\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2019-11-27T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:43:57","slug":"a-nationally-recognized-leader-in-student-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/2019\/11\/27\/a-nationally-recognized-leader-in-student-success\/","title":{"rendered":"A nationally recognized leader in student success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Abilene Christian University is the highest-ranking university in Texas in a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/acu.today\/2019\/09\/10\/acu-outranks-other-texas-universities-in-u-s-news-world-reports-new-benchmark\/\">U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/a>\u00a0<em>benchmark focused on student success. ACU achieved Top 20 status in three of eight high-impact categories among 1,500 universities evaluated for \u201cA Focus on Student Success\u201d and is the only Texas institution to be ranked in five of the categories.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acu.today\/2019\/11\/13\/leader-in-student-success\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1808 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/files\/2019\/11\/Billboard_Marketing-USNWR-Rankings-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1504\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/files\/2019\/11\/Billboard_Marketing-USNWR-Rankings-10.jpg 1504w, http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/files\/2019\/11\/Billboard_Marketing-USNWR-Rankings-10-1280x354.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/files\/2019\/11\/Billboard_Marketing-USNWR-Rankings-10-980x271.jpg 980w, http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/files\/2019\/11\/Billboard_Marketing-USNWR-Rankings-10-480x133.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1504px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h3><strong>Undergraduate Research\/Creative Projects: #42 in the nation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22781\" src=\"https:\/\/acu.today\/files\/2019\/11\/UndergradResearch-5x3-ACUOnstead_516296-278x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"135\" \/>Students learn key skills that open doors for graduate school and successful careers through numerous undergraduate research opportunities at ACU.\u00a0Through the support of ACU\u2019s Office of Undergraduate Research and individual faculty mentors, students engage in laboratory and field research in the natural sciences, and projects in the social sciences, performing and fine arts, humanities, and business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abilene Christian University is the highest-ranking university in Texas in a\u00a0U.S. News &amp; World Report\u00a0benchmark focused on student success. ACU achieved Top 20 status in three of eight high-impact categories among 1,500 universities evaluated for \u201cA Focus on Student Success\u201d and is the only Texas institution to be ranked in five of the categories. Undergraduate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3528,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,76729],"tags":[76729],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-student-researcher","tag-student-researcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3528"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}