“One thing I love about Baylor is everyone’s so passionate — everyone’s passionate about something. There are so many intelligent and amazing people that I’ve enjoyed learning from… a lot of people that are like me, and a lot of people that aren’t like me. It’s a great learning experience. “I’m really passionate about medicine, […]
When you’re training future leaders for worldwide service, the ability to immerse students in a culture different from their own is clearly a valuable thing. That’s why many Baylor School of Education (SOE) students are spending their spring breaks this week in Queretaro, Mexico — as part of the university’s first “embedded classroom.” What, you might ask, is […]
When Baylor was chartered in 1845, it was the first (or one of the first, depending on the source) coeducational college or university west of the Mississippi River — about 10 years before any public institution of higher learning would introduce mixed-gender learning, and a full 75 years before American women were guaranteed the right to vote. Since that groundbreaking […]
What do you get when you take a creative husband and wife team, who just happened to graduate from Baylor, and follow them as they provide home products for their Waco neighbors? You’ve got a recipe for a winning television show. Of course, this describes the famous Fixer Upper couple known nationally as “Chip and Jo” […]
When you were an 18-year-old on the brink of adulthood and headed to college, what worries did you have? Were you afraid you wouldn’t make any friends? Scared you’d get lost on the first day? Just trying to wrap your head around the fact that you were more or less on your own and had to embrace […]
Early in their careers, Baylor alumni Derek Haas (BA ’91, MA ’95) and Michael Brandt (BBA ’91, MA ’94) found Hollywood success as the co-writers of such films as Wanted, 3:10 to Yuma and 2 Fast 2 Furious. Then in 2012, they made the move to television when their show Chicago Fire was picked up by NBC. […]
[For Community Leader Appreciation Week, we’re sharing thoughts from CLs across campus all week; today, a South Russell CL.] “I just wanted to help people. Going through my freshman year and seeing my CL and all the ways he was able to incorporate every single guy on my hall and get everyone involved together and help […]
[For Community Leader Appreciation Week, we’re sharing thoughts from CLs across campus all week; today, an Earle Hall CL.] “I transferred to Baylor after my freshman year. I went to the University of Oregon, and my RA there was just very absent from the hall, and kind of avoided us at times if she was […]
On Saturday, Baylor athletic programs brought home two Big 12 championships — one that Bears have perhaps come to expect, and one that was completely new. First came the Lady Bear basketball team, which won its seventh straight Big 12 regular season title. To put that in perspective, only two Big 12 teams — in any […]
[For Community Leader Appreciation Week, we’re sharing thoughts from CLs across campus all week; today, a Brooks Flats CL.] “All my life, I’ve been kind of willy-nilly, kind of a flower child, and it’s been fine. It worked for me. I called it ‘organized chaos,’ and it was perfect. And then you get into a position […]
