The 2010-11 Mobile-Learning Report provides an inside look at ACU’s award-winning mobile-learning initiative. View or download it from acu.edu/connected.
blog. “But I bet the Connected folks never envisioned the iPhone as a vital part of paranormal investigative field research.”
Curl helps commemorate 50th anniversary of integration of university’s campus
GARY RHODES
As the first black undergraduate student admitted to ACU in 1962, Dr. Billy Curl (’66) knows something about the difficult road traveled by others with pioneering roles in the integration of a university. “There were a lot of people behind the scenes pulling for me, and they made it possible Dr. Billy Curl for me to sustain myself,” said Curl, who is an ACU trustee, as well as an elder and minister at the Crenshaw Church of Christ in Los Angeles, Calif. He said he remembers his father telling him, “If you want to make it in this world, you are going to have to have an education. You also have to have God in your life and you’re going to have to dream.” Curl spoke in Chapel Feb. 20 and later that evening on a Chapel Forum panel, to mark Black History Month and the 50th anniversary of ACU being an integrated campus. He was joined in the Chapel Forum by Dr. Gary McCaleb (’64), vice president of the university; Dr. Ellis Long (’57), former missions faculty member; Dr. Odies Wright (’72), associate professor of exercise science and health; Dr. Stephanie (Toombs ’90) Hamm, assistant professor of social work and director of the School of Social work; and Byron Martin (’09), assistant director of student multicultural enrichment and support. Moderators were Grant Boone (’91), alumni relations officer, and Farron Salley, senior journalism and mass communication major. Russ Kirby,
ACU BY THE NUMBERS 40,000
Annual number of hours in which ACU students are engaged in community service around the world, according to the university’s Center for Christian Service and Leadership.
director of student multicultural enrichment, was the host.
Grammy-winning musicians, Texas Rangers’ CFO among campus speakers
• Economics writer Stephen Moore, a member of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, spoke out against federal spending at a luncheon Nov. 15, 2011. Moore also addressed technological innovation and tax reform. • Cheryl Bachelder, CFO of AFC Enterprises, parent company of Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen, spoke Nov. 3, 2011, as part of the College of Business Administration’s Distinguished Speaker Series. Kellie Fischer, CFO of the Texas Rangers Baseball Club, spoke Feb. 7 at a Women in Business luncheon and in an organizational behavior class taught by Dr. Darryl Jinkerson. • Randy Hunt, design director for the online marketplace etsy.com, spoke Sept. 5, 2011, to ACU art and design students about putting their design talents to use in the business world. • Drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts, a seven-time Grammy Award winner, performed and taught several music department master classes in November 2011. • Comedian Bob Smiley (’94), minister and speaker Reg Cox (’84) and former Newsboys singer Phil Joel visited campus Oct. 28, 2011, as part of the “Me Addiction” tour, speaking in Chapel and hosting an evening Chapel forum. • ACU’s Department of Sociology and Family Studies hosted a criminal justice lecture series in October and November 2011. Speakers included attorney David Pearson (’86), officials from the Texas Department of Corrections, a Houston gang task force, and the founders of an Austin crime scene decontamination company. The series continued in Spring 2012 with ballistic experts, police and fire professionals, and forensic psychologists.
750 Number of toys ACU students shared with local families during Christmas on the Streets in December 2011, through Love & Care Ministries. The event was part of the university’s annual Season of Caring, which ran from Nov. 14 to Dec. 14. Students, faculty and staff also provided Thanksgiving meals and organized a free Family Portrait Event for low-income families.
59 Victories in parliamentary debate this school year by seniors Jeff Craig and Jared Perkins, which made them the topwinning duo in the nation. They finished with a record of 59-10 and were named to the National Parliamentary Debate Association’s all-America team. Dylan Brugman, a sophomore, won the NPDA’s Dan Henning Novice Speaker Award, a national honor an ACU student has won three straight years. Perkins won the award in 2010.
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Number of NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarships won by ACU student-athletes. In the Lone Star state, only The University of Texas at Austin, Rice, SMU and Trinity have received.
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Number of universities in the nation to receive “Best Colleges to Work For” designation from The Chronicle of Higher Education. ACU, Duke and USC are among them.
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Number of years before ACU will need to undergo reaccreditation by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. ACU recently passed its campuswide study with flying colors; only a small number of institutions are allowed the privilege of not being required to undergo additional monitoring during each decade between COCSACS reviews, and ACU is among them.
The “Me” Addiction
Bursting With Life
HAVING IT MY WAY ISN’T SO GREAT AFTER ALL
TRIUMPH THROUGH CEREBRAL PALSY
By Reg Cox (’84), Rick Brown (’82), Jer Villanueva (’86) and Dr. Glen Villanueva (’88) 978-1-44973-031-4 • 148 pages shoestringministries.org
By Robert Reid (’70) ISBN 978-1-45375-886-1 • 157 pages publishwithka.com
A key to serving God more fully is overcoming a basic human condition: self-centeredness. Deflating our ego is the first step in learning to live a “revolutionary” life, as the authors explain.
Reid, who was a missionary in Portugal for more than 35 years, has amazed untold numbers of people with his testimony about overcoming challenges. This autobiography about his life with cerebral palsy is informative and inspiring. AC U TO D AY
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