ACU was originally founded as a small learning institute in West Texas in 1906 has grown into an international institution of Christ-centered education, innovations and global leadership with a rich heritage of traditions and a vibrant future. Our vision is to become the premier university for the education of Christ-centered, global leaders. The Vision in Action initiative is a historic step toward achieving this goal with the construction of a $45 million science complex and a $30 million Wildcat Stadium.
ACU is a private, master’s-level university in Texas, enrolling about 5,600 students from nearly every state and nations. ACU combine innovative technology, research, faculty and a global perspective to prepare students for success and leadership throughout the world.
Its vision is to become the premier university for the
education of Christ-centered, global leaders. The Vision in Action
initiative is a historic step toward achieving this goal with the
construction of a million science complex and a million Wildcat
Stadium.
ACU is one of Best Colleges” according to World Report, The Princeton Review and Forbes, as well as a
U.S. News “Most Innovative School,” an Apple Distinguished School and a
Military Friendly School.
On February 26, 2008, ACU announced that all incoming freshman classes would receive a free Apple iPhone or an iPod Touch. This decision was the result of a study to find out the viability of iPhone and iPod for academic purposes. ACU was reported as the first university in the nation to embrace this opportunity to further education through the use of the new generation of smartphone technologies. In February, 2009, ACU hosted more than 400 academics and technologists from 31 states and 8 countries for its first ConnectEd Summit[21] on mobile learning. Attendees representing more than 90 schools participated in workshops designed to foster mobile learning programs on their own campuses.
In August 2008,Campus Technology magazine named ACU "Innovator of the Year" in the mobile learning category for this "ACU Connected" initiative. On February 27, 2009, ACU received the award for Institutional Excellence in Information Communications Technology from ACUTA and on March 4, 2009, Alcatel-Lucent named ACU a Dynamic Enterprise Award winner and awarded ACU with its first Analyst Choice Award for its ACU Connected initiative. On June 13, 2009, the New Media Consortium presented ACU with one of three Center of Excellence awards at its annual summer conference for ACU's efforts in mobile learning.
Athletics
Formerly a charter member of the Division I Southland Conference, Abilene Christian joined the Lone Star Conference (LSC) ofDivision II of the NCAA in 1973, but have since rejoined the Southland Conference as of 2013. In 2007, the conference included 33 ACU current and former student athletes in its 75-member all-sports team commemorating the conference's 75th anniversary.Through 2009, ACU is fourth in NCAA history in team national championships won with 57, trailing Division I schools UCLA, Stanford, and USC, and tied with Division III school Kenyon College
In 2012 Abilene Christian had received NCAA permission to compete in Division I FCS and was under consideration for reattachment to the Southland Conference. On August 25, Abilene Christian's Board of Trustees accepted Southland's invitation to rejoin the Conference effective with the start of the 2013 academic year.
- The men's track and field program has won 32 NCAA National Track and Field Championships: 19 NCAA outdoor and 13 indoor.
- The women's track and field program has won 22 national championships: 12 indoor and 10 outdoor.
- The Wildcats were NAIA national football champions in 1973 and 1977.Before the NCAA invalidated its 2007 season, nine ACU football players were included in the LSC's 75th-anniversary list of top players in conference history. The school's 2007 victories were vacated by the NCAA in 2009. The NCAA charged "two assistant football coaches helped a pair of players find an English correspondence class to take, enroll in the same course, allowed them to use the coaches’ school computers for writing papers and paid to mail the assignments." The school had scored more than 40 points in 11 of its 13 games and more than 50 points in 7 games and 70 or more points in two games including a 73–76 three overtime loss to Chadron State in the second round of the NCAA playoffs.
- In 2008, the Wildcats "set a record for points in an NCAA (football) playoff game, beating West Texas A&M 93-68 in the second round of the Division II playoffs."
- Ove Johansson kicked the longest field goal in college football history (69 yards) in 1976, 6 yards longer than the current NFL record. As of 2009 it remains the longest field goal ever kicked in any level of football competition and is an unbroken world record.
- Olympic athletes from ACU include Bobby Morrow, three-time 1956 gold medal winner; Earl Young, 1960 Olympic gold medalist in the 4x400 relay; Billy Olson, who made the 1980 and 1988 U.S. teams but did not compete in 1980 due to President Carter's decision to boycott the Games; Yolande Straughn, who competed in 1988 for Barbados; and
- James Browne, 1988 competitor for Antigua.
- ESPN and NFL Network analyst and author Sean Adams is a former NCAA All-American athlete for ACU.
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