Fulbright and Goldwater are two of the more prestigious names in higher education, thanks to the incredibly competitive scholarship awards that bear their names. It’s become commonplace for Baylor to win multiple such awards — last year, nine Baylor students were awarded either a Goldwater or Fulbright, building on successes over the the last few […]
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Ninety years ago this week — May 27, 1930 — Waco Hall was officially dedicated during Spring Commencement activities. But you may be surprised to learn that the building, which has given so many Bears happy memories of Sing performances and Chapel performances, was a child of tragedy and struggle. The tragedy? A fire that gutted […]
Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world, with more than 40 million victims worldwide — and its happening in communities all across the globe, including right here in Texas. Baylor alumna Susan Peters, BA ’86, has made it her mission to put an end to it. After witnessing exploitation and injustice […]
Another academic year has come to an end. However strange it was, some things are still familiar: Final grades have been posted, books are being returned, students have graduated — and Baylor’s professors of the year have been awarded! The Collins Outstanding Professor Award, which is voted on by the outgoing senior class, awards the […]
It was barely a month ago that we wrote about how a Baylor program — picked up and supported by the USDA, PepsiCo, McLane Global and others — had quickly ramped up to provide a million meals a week to schoolchildren in rural areas impacted by COVID-19-related school closures. Here’s how well that program has […]
Congratulations, Class of 2020 — you did it. No class in Baylor’s 175-year history has had a senior year quite like yours, and certainly not a Senior Week or graduation weekend like yours. But while missing out on such traditions is sad, they don’t diminish the fact that you did it. You graduated. And that […]
Throughout his senior year, Isaac Bradley never stopped thinking about his mother, and in the end, he says, that motivation helped carry him through the most challenging year of his family’s life, motivating him to sing for her in ways he never would have imagined. Isaac grew up around Baylor. His mother, Brenda, taught in […]
Cindy Bell-Peoples says that children with special needs, in many ways, rebuild a parent from the ground up. As she prepares to graduate this weekend and looks ahead to graduate school — 36 years after initially enrolling at Baylor — her own story demonstrates just that. Bell-Peoples came to Baylor in 1984 to major in […]
Post-grad degrees are not for the faint of heart. They require hard work, discipline, and late nights; Baylor’s Executive MBA program is no exception. While some pursue their MBA straight out of undergrad, some take time to establish families and careers, returning years later for a shiny new degree. Ahad Rehmatulla and Marc Fergason are […]
Earning the designation as a Master Teacher is a rare honor — one of the highest a Baylor professor can receive. In March, President Linda Livingstone announced that three Baylor professors have earned the title, increasing the roll of Master Teachers who had earned this designation to 29 since the honor was first bestowed almost […]
