Your seemingly mild-mannered professor may be harboring a secret: He may be a star in the NBA. Not the National Basketball Association; the Noontime Basketball Association. For the last three decades, a group of professors, staff members, coaches and friends have slipped away from their classrooms and offices to share in a little basketball glory. The NBA […]
Baylor’s administrators take seriously the problems caused by the rising cost of higher education. Upon his arrival at Baylor five years ago, President Ken Starr made it his first priority to raise money for scholarships; at the same time, Baylor Regents have begun steadily reducing tuition hikes; the most recent raise was Baylor’s smallest in more […]
That Baylor was founded by a judge is well known. But the legacy of Baylor judges didn’t stop with R.E.B. Baylor. Judge Abner Vernon McCall, the 10th president of Baylor University, was born on June 8, 1915, in Perrin, Texas. His early childhood presented challenges: his father passed away when he was three, and he was sent to […]
Sports are great. Competition is great. Conference championships and national titles are great. But it can be easy to forget what — who, really — is greater than all that. With that in mind, Baylor began by hiring a full-time athletic chaplain, Wes Yeary (BA ’87), in 2008. Three years later, they took another step — launching a complete […]
Whether you’re a high school student considering Baylor for college or an alumnus who hasn’t been on campus in a few years, here’s the truth: You need to visit Baylor. Of course, we know that your time is limited, and it’s impossible to do everything Baylor and Waco have to offer in a day. So we’ve whittled it down to […]
Baylor’s undergraduate entrepreneurship program has long been recognized among the best in the country. Next year, that excellence will extend to the doctoral level, as Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business introduces a Ph.D. program in entrepreneurship starting in the fall of 2016. Only six other universities in America offer such a program — a fitting number, given […]
The Baylor campus was a far different place in the early 1930s. For starters, almost the entire Baylor campus fit between Fifth and Seventh streets, bounded by Speight to the west and Waco Creek to the east. Instead of the SUB, there was a football field. Pat Neff was the new university president, not a […]
Five years ago today, Ken Starr took office as Baylor University’s 14th president. Looking back over that time, we see many of the best years in the university’s 170-year history, from academic rankings to campus happenings, from athletic accomplishments to financial support. There has never been a better time to be a Baylor Bear, and Judge Starr’s leadership […]
