News

Apr 7, 2018

During the 18th annual ACUI College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI), April 4–7, New York University took home top honors out of the 66 teams participating from across and beyond the United States competing for top honors.

Mar 29, 2018

Manny Cunard passed away March 28, 2018. Cunard served as ACUI president from 1992–93 and chaired the 1984 Annual Conference in St. Louis, the Committee on Educational Programs and Services, and the Development Fund Advisory Committee.

Mar 26, 2018

Designed to recognize outstanding leaders, the Butts-Whiting Award is the Association’s highest honor. The 2018 Butts-Whiting Award was presented to Dr. Kim Dolores Harrington.

Mar 24, 2018

ACUI inducted president-elect Jennifer Zamora, at-large members Deepti Chadee, Krista Harrell, and Heidi Lang, and student member Spencer Vincent to its Board of Trustees at the 2018 Annual Conference held March 20–25 in Anaheim, California.

Mar 23, 2018

During the 2018 Annual Conference in Anaheim, ACUI celebrated achievements in advancing campus community during The Honors awards ceremony on March 22.

Mar 8, 2018

As part of the national conversation about guns, it is appropriate for ACUI to thoughtfully examine how to best operate a successful student program within a larger society struggling with a challenging issue.

Dec 22, 2017

Following an increase in violence on college campuses in late 2015, the ACUI Board of Trustees created the Campus Shooting Dialogue Planning Team, a task force to examine action-based efforts that union and activities professionals could take on their own campuses to better understand campus shootings and how to prepare for them.

Dec 1, 2017

In December, ACUI Benchmarking was launched, a new tool that allows users to enter data, view key performance indicators, and download comparative, presentation-ready reports. The tool was built in cooperation with Dynamic Benchmarking and will offer members the valuable data they need.

Nov 29, 2017

ACUI is pleased to announce the results of the Board of Trustees election, in which there were 564 ballots cast out of 3,140 eligible voters, representing an 18% voter turnout.

Nov 28, 2017

All of ACUI’s regions offer a variety of ways to recognize and provide opportunities to members through awards and scholarships. In 2017, a total of 65 regional awards and scholarships were presented, with $20,819 being offered in funding to support student and professional development.

Nov 1, 2017

Digital badging is a type of micro-credentialing that allows people to demonstrate their competence in a skill set. These can be informal, such as the badges gamers earn for reaching certain levels of a game or the badges earned on fitness tracking apps for achieving a certain number of steps in a day.

Oct 30, 2017

The 2016–18 Strategic Plan called for some of the Association’s core elements to be reviewed, including the Role of the College Union Statement. In June 2017, a committee was formed to assess the current statement and determine what revisions should be made.

Sep 13, 2017

A removal of protections extended by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program would directly impact the work of ACUI members, and the Board of Trustees unanimously opposes this direction.

Aug 24, 2017

It has come to the attention of the Board of Trustees that as an undergraduate Porter Butts may have been a member of a student organization affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan. There is no place for racism in our association. To examine this issue, a working group is being created to look at the naming of ACUI awards and honors.

Aug 10, 2017

ACUI recently partnered with Indiana University to expand research in the college union and student activities field. The first project to be pursued is a qualitative study that will examine student engagement in the college union and how college unions contribute to student learning and success.

Aug 1, 2017

Hosting a combined total of 158 student leaders for the 2017 Institute of Leadership Education and Development (I-LEAD®), ACUI’s annual premier student program was held in early June at the University of Massachusetts–Lowell and late July at Kansas State University.

Jul 12, 2017

In late June, more than 90 professionals gathered at the University of Akron for the 2017 Student Organizations Institute. The institute is presented annually in partnership between ACUI, the Association for Student Conduct Administration (ASCA), and the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA).

Jun 30, 2017

From June 12–16, 46 participants joined colleagues at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for IPDS: New Professionals Orientation.

Jun 1, 2017

​ACUI has joined other student affairs associations in a campaign aimed at reminding us all of the importance of respect in civil society and on our campuses.

May 25, 2017

Throughout May 2017, elections occurred for regional director in Regions II, IV, VI, and VIII. Overall, there were 365 ballots cast out of 1,455 eligible voters, representing a 25.1% voter turnout.