Dr. Phil Schubert is inaugurated as ACU’s 11^th president.

TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie spends the day with ACU students.

The Wildcat football team finishes the regular season undefeated (11-0) and claims its second Lone Star Conference title in three years.

2006 ACU graduate Ben Jeffrey stars as Pumbaa in Broadway’s The Lion King.

Alex Carpenter, 2010 NCAA Division II Player of the Year, shoots 69 as the 
only amateur in the PGA Tour’s 2011 Arnold Palmer Invitational.

ACU’s The Optimist becomes the first university newspaper available on Apple’s new iPad.

ACU is ranked in the top 7% of U.S. universities by Forbes magazine.

ACU faculty and undergraduate physics students are collaborators on the creation of  “quark soup” in the PHENIX experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory that makes science headlines around the world.

ACU’s College of Business Administration pilots three courses replacing textbooks with iPads.

The new Royce and Pam Money Student Recreation and Wellness Center opens in Fall 2011.

The Red Thread Movement, created by ACU students to help rescue young 
girls from sex trafficking in Nepal, receives national recognition.

Three former Wildcats play in the same NFL game (Bernard Scott of the Cincinnati Bengals, and Johnny Knox and Danieal Manning of the Chicago Bears).

In only its third year, the ACU women’s soccer team wins the Lone Star Conference title.

ACU announces plans to bring its nursing program back to campus to offer students more hands-on opportunities.

Lawson Soward wins 10 awards for his film, “Hazel & Jack,” at the 2011 ACU FilmFest in Abilene’s historic
Paramount Theatre.