News

Sep 28, 2018

ACUI signs onto commitment advancing shared responsibility and integrated approach to addressing student health and well-being.

Sep 17, 2018

The ACUI Board of Trustees has been hard at work crafting a new approach to planning. Under the new structure, the board has identified strategic guideposts to direct ACUI’s future for the next three to five years.

Sep 7, 2018

Materials gathered by the working group have been published, and an open forum is available for discussion. The Board of Trustees will host two online meetings for ACUI members who want to process this decision.

Aug 23, 2018

ACUI recently renamed the Community of Scholars; it is now the Community of Research and Assessment. The hope is that the new name will lead to increased community engagement and make research more accessible and less intimidating.

Aug 1, 2018

In light of the national conversation in the United States about guns, a new working group has begun to evaluate ACUI’s clay targets program.

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.