Baylor soccer turned heads across the country last fall with a stirring postseason run that featured some of the sport’s most dramatic moments of the season. In a memorable month of November, the Bears earned their first-ever Big 12 tournament championship and reached the NCAA’s Elite Eight for the first time in program history. As […]
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On Facebook earlier this week, Baylor asked a simple question of the university’s 200,000+ followers: “What one piece of advice would you share with #Baylor freshmen on their first day of college?” Baylor alumni and others were quick to respond, sharing thousands of words worth of wisdom. Feel free to read through all their advice (and […]
While it’s common for incoming freshmen to be welcomed to college by campus leaders, it’s not so common for that encouragement to come in the form of a hymn — but that’s what we do at Baylor. Since 2008, each class of freshmen has received its own unique message of encouragement and hope written by University Chaplain Burt Burleson, […]
This is no ordinary dollar bill. This is a prized possession of Jada Stockemer, new Baylor freshman, who will finally move into her dorm this week with thousands of others in the Class of 2022. When she does, that dollar bill will be back where it first started. In the fall of 1952, Gwen Beard […]
Religion’s role in the founding and shaping of American life has been much-considered, studied and debated throughout U.S. history — but few are as qualified to provide insight into the topic as Baylor’s Distinguished Professor of History, Dr. Thomas Kidd. In the classroom, on bookshelves and in the media, students and non-students alike have learned […]
For the fourth year in a row, the Baylor Symphony Orchestra has won the American Prize in Orchestral Performance as the nation’s top collegiate orchestra! The American Prize is a national nonprofit competition in the performing arts. Baylor’s orchestra is the first ensemble in any of the competition’s categories to ever win first place four […]
One of the things we look forward to every summer is seeing all the amazing places Baylor Bears fling their green and gold. From vacations to mission trips to studying abroad, students and alumni share their adventures (and their Baylor pride) on social media using the hashtag #MyBaylorSummer. Here are 11 of our favorites from this summer […]
In 2014, we wrote about Jolene Damoiseaux, a Baylor senior who was researching maternal mortality and had traveled through Kenya with her student organization. While there, she met with expectant mothers who shared a common problem: getting to the hospital to give birth. The women faced an average hike of three miles through rough terrain […]
How integral was William Tryon to the founding of Baylor University? Judge R.E.B. Baylor himself thought that our university, when it was chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas, should have been named after his fellow Baptist pioneer. Had Judge Baylor’s wishes been heeded, we’d all be TryonProud today. While Judge Baylor’s humble suggestion […]
Sure, summer is nice. A few months of break from homework and tests is hard to beat — but the fall semester is almost here. Returning students will reunite with old friends, get back to old routines, and enjoy the historic beauty of the Baylor campus. But there’s also plenty of newness around campus this […]
