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ACU names senior VP for marketing and strategic communications
Abilene Christian University has named an award-winning communications and marketing professional with 23 years of experience in higher education as its first senior vice president for marketing and strategic communications. Linda Bonnin has served as vice president for strategic communications at The University of Alabama since 2015. In that role, she created Alabama’s first branding […]
ACU partners with Clinton Foundation and Laundry Luv to offer reading area
Abilene Christian University has partnered with the Clinton Foundation’s early childhood initiative, “Too Small to Fail,” to introduce reading spaces at Laundry Luv (Abilene). The foundation is leading a national public awareness and action campaign called “Talking is Teaching: Talk, Read, Sing” designed to encourage parents to talk, read and sing with their children from birth. A core strategy has […]
New Center for Careers and Experiential Learning serves as umbrella for programs that enhance student success
Abilene Christian is the highest-ranking university in Texas in a U.S. News and World Report benchmark focused on student success. Here is a look at some of the people and programs that make our student experience exceptional. If anyone knows the meaning and the reality of experiential learning, it’s Derran Reese (’00). In fact, he […]
ACU professor Bill Fowler receives Texas Outstanding Accounting Educator Award
Bill Fowler, associate professor of accounting at Abilene Christian University, has been selected for the Outstanding Accounting Educator Award by the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants. The award recognizes Texas accounting educators who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and have distinguished themselves through active service to the accounting profession. Fowler is one of two […]
27th annual Gutenberg Celebration to honor outstanding alumni
The ACU Department of Journalism and Mass Communication will honor three distinguished alumni during the 27th annual Gutenberg Celebration. Introduced in 1993, the Gutenberg Award recognizes distinguished professional achievements of Journalism and Mass Communication Department alumni. The Gutenberg Celebration will take place in Hunter Welcome Center on Thursday, October 17. A reception will begin at […]
ACU named Chronicle of Higher Education “Great College to Work For”
For 11 consecutive years, ACU has been named a “Great College to Work For,” according to a new survey by The Great Colleges to Work For program. The results, released today in a special insert of the Chronicle of Higher Education, are based on the more than 124,000 administrators, faculty members and professional support staff […]
ACU outranks other Texas universities in ‘U.S. News’ national benchmark
Abilene Christian University is the highest-ranking university in Texas in a new U.S. News and World Report benchmark focused on student success. The university also achieved its highest overall regional ranking ever – 12th – in U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 “America’s Best Colleges,” an improvement of nine places over 2019. U.S. News highlighted […]
ACU grads Matthew Kacsmaryk and Brantley Starr confirmed as federal judges
Two Abilene Christian University graduates, Matthew Kacsmaryk, J.D., and Brantley Starr, J.D., have been confirmed as U.S. District judges. “It is rare for any Christian university to have a federal judge confirmed by the U.S. Senate,” said Dr. Neal Coates, chair of the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, “and since January ACU now […]
Adjunct ACU criminal justice professor named FBI assistant director
FBI director Christopher Wray has named an ACU adjunct criminal justice professor as an FBI assistant director. Stuart Platt is the new FBI assistant director overseeing the Office of Professional Responsibility, located at the FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Platt was sworn in Aug. 27. The Office of Professional Responsibility strives to ensure that FBI […]
Dr. Marcia Straughn named as dean of ACU’s School of Nursing
Dr. Marcia Straughn has been named as dean of ACU’s School of Nursing. Straughn previously served as department chair. She has been involved with all program levels within the School of Nursing, ranging from classroom and clinical courses in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program to work on the Doctor of Nursing Practice project […]
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