Baylor professors Dr. Alton Hassell and his wife Patricia were featured on Wednesday’s Oprah Winfrey Show during an episode focused on love. The Hassells — both Baylor alums — have written each other love letters every day over the past 27 years. If that’s not commitment, I don’t know what is! Read more about their […]
Just about every college student does something others might call “crazy” at least once while in school, but few take it to as grand a scale as this: four Baylor juniors are going to bicycle from Waco to Anchorage, Alaska, this summer to raise awareness for suicide prevention. After talking to a friend who had […]
On Monday, we wrote about the results USA Today ran from the National Survey of Student Engagement. Today, we’ve got some more interesting data from the survey. Baylor clearly outshines its peers in two questions that encompass the entire college experience. First-year students and seniors were each asked “How would you evaluate your entire educational […]
As college tuition costs have risen across the nation in recent years, many parents are wondering how they will ever afford a college education for their children. The desire to fund more scholarships for students is at the heart of Baylor’s push towards a $2 billion endowment (an important part of Vision 2012). Thankfully, Baylor […]
You probably won’t find any mention of them in your history textbook, but during World War II over 1,000 women trained as combat pilots, flying all the same aircraft and types of assignments as male pilots (except for combat). As the war neared its end, however, the women were sent home with no recognition, their […]
According to data gathered by USA Today, Baylor students are happier with their college choice than students at similar schools across virtually all areas of the college academic experience. Over 250 universities across the country shared their data from the National Survey of Student Engagement with USA Today. The publication categorized Baylor as a high-research […]
If you were at this weekend’s Homecoming football game against Texas Tech, then you saw five Baylor honorees presented with the Herbert H. Reynolds Award for Exemplary Service: Dr. Paul Armitstead (pictured at right with his daughters), Dr. Kent Gilbreath, Ann Reed, Julie Hermansen Turner, and Jim Turner. Dr. Armitstead is the only one I’ve […]
Plenty of Baylor grads made it back for Homecoming this past weekend, but plenty more didn’t. For you, we’ve rounded up a sampling of photos from many of the weekend’s main events — Pigskin, the Bonfire, the Parade, and the Brooks Village and Immortal 10 Memorial dedications — in this slideshow. For more photos, visit […]
Bill Glass was Baylor football’s first unanimous consensus All-America selection, but for the past four decades, he’s dedicated himself to what is now known as Champions for Life, a prison ministry Glass started three years after he finished a 10-year NFL career. The Amarillo Globe-News recently ran a nice feature on Glass and his work. […]
Fresh on the heels of their recognition by The Princeton Review comes word that Baylor Law School students have once again claimed the top pass rate on the Texas State Bar Exam. 91 of the 93 Baylor students who took the test in July passed it on the first try (98%). Baylor also led the […]
