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2000 ACU apologized and asked forgiveness for past racial discrimination. The simple act of asking forgiveness took on symbolic overtones Nov. 21 when ACU president Dr. Royce Money stood before an auditorium filled with African-Americans to apologize for ACU's past discriminatory admissions policies. |
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2001 During the 2000-01 school year, a record 4,761 students enrolled, financial aid annually for ACU students reached $40 million, and ACU ranked among the top 10 percent of institutions in the nation in endowment with $142 million. The university adopted "Change the World" as its theme as it began plans for its 100th school year in 2005-06. A record 943 bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees were awarded at May, August and December commencement ceremonies. For the second year in a row ACU graduates achieved a 100 percent acceptance rate into dental schools (a rate at least double the national average). Construction began on ACU's new Williams Performing Arts Center, a $16 million facility for music and theatre. A gift of $200,000 from the Meadows Foundation helped the university in the final stages of its fund-raising campaign for the Williams Center. On Sept. 11, two planes crashed into the twin World Trade Center towers in New York City. ACU focused Chapel on the national tragedy. Students, faculty and staff gathered in Moody Coliseum to pray and reflect on the tragic events of terrorism that took place earlier that morning. Over the ensuing months, students, faculty and staff raised monetary and other aid to send to the victims in New York City. |
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2002 Faculty members Dr. Michael Sadler (physics) and Dr. Jason Morris (McNair Scholars) received the sixth and seventh Fulbright scholarships in university history from the U.S. Department of State. Dr. John C. Stevens, chancellor emeritus and president in 1969-81, attended the opening of the U.S. Army Chaplain's Museum in Columbia, S.C., Sept. 27. Stevens was pictured leading U.S. troops in the center of the World War II victory parade down Champs Elysees Avenue in Paris, France, Aug. 29, 1944, in one of the most famous military photographs in history. |
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2003 Classes opened Jan. 13 in the new Williams Performing Arts Center, a $17 million facility with 92,000 square feet of space for the Departments of Music and Theatre. |
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2004 ACU graduate David Leeson won the Pulitzer Prize in photography. The Dallas Morning News senior photographer, a 1978 ACU graduate, shared the award for Breaking News Photography with Morning News photographer Cheryl Diaz Meyer for the pair's coverage of the invasion of Iraq. The Optimist won first place in the "Overall Div. I Newspaper" category at the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association (TIPA) convention in Austin, placing ahead of newspapers from the University of Texas-Arlington, the University of North Texas and UT-Austin. |
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