More than 2,700 Baylor students, professors, staff members and community members — all the way up to and including President Ken Starr (pictured) — pitched in Wednesday and Thursday to help more than 3,200 members of the Class of 2016 get settled into their new homes on campus. [See photos from Move-In 2012.] The flood […]
Bear fans who enjoyed watching the U.S. women’s soccer team win gold last week in London are in for a treat this fall in Waco. The team fifth-year head soccer coach Marci Jobson puts on the field this fall at Baylor may be the most talented team since the Bears won the Big 12 Championship […]
Dr. Michael Alexander, an associate professor of string music education in Baylor’s School of Music, has a lot on his plate. The Houston-area native teaches a full course load (from introductory classes to graduate-level seminars) and also directs the Baylor Campus Orchestra. Yet it might be his work with the little-known Baylor String Project that tipped […]
Did you know Baylor offered the first law school in Texas? That Presidents Harry S Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon B. Johnson all visited Baylor while in office? That Pat Neff Hall was first lit green after a Baylor victory in College Station “as a beacon home for all the students who had made the […]
Brad Carson, BA ’89, has dedicated his life to helping others, and as General Counsel of the Department of the Army, he holds a unique position in which he works tirelessly to support and protect both our country and those serving it. Carson serves as legal advisor to the Secretary of the Army, as the Chief […]
Legendary Baylor track and field coach Clyde Hart, BBA ’56, has seen his athletes win a lot of honors during his nearly 50 years in coaching: 34 NCAA championships, 533 All-America honors, and countless conference titles. But perhaps his most impressive feat has come not in Waco, but on tracks around the world. Hart’s pupils […]
Welcome Week starts in eight days, classes start 10 days from now, and Baylor football’s 2012 season opener is little more than three weeks away. In other words, the excitement of fall is in the air. With the thrills of the 2011 season still fresh in our minds, the sporting world is watching to see […]
If Baylor Proud were a person, we’d be entering kindergarten soon; the blog turns five this week! It’s interesting to go back and look at some of our earliest posts from August 2007 — five years ago — as we were just beginning to get our legs underneath us. Early entries covered topics like Move-In Day, the […]
Helping those with mental health challenges is a passion of Baylor alums Joe Padilla, BA ’95, and Dr. Matt Stanford, BS ’88, MA ’90, PhD ’92, founders of Mental Health Grace Alliance. Working in tandem, the two have turned this passion into a mission-minded non-profit organization dedicated to helping others. Because both Padilla and Stanford […]
In less than two weeks, Welcome Week will be in full swing! Before the freshmen arrive on campus, here’s a look at just a few of those who will be settling in on campus as the Class of 2016. * Twins Josh and Destany Porter spent the past year working with classmates at Liberty Christian […]
