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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship is the nation’s largest, most prestigious award for humanities and social sciences Ph.D. candidates researching questions of ethical and religious values. This year, just 21 students nationwide have been honored as Newcombe Fellows — and one of those is a Baylor Bear. Teresita Lozano, a 2010 Baylor music education graduate who is […]
Singletary. For football fans, only a last name is needed to conjure images of one of the greatest football players of all time patrolling the defense for the Bears — both at Baylor and in Chicago — setting records and winning titles in a legendary Hall of Fame career. Mike Singletary, BBA ’83, is today […]
Get ready: Tickets for #BaylorHomecoming and #BaylorFamily Weekend events go on sale — online only — at 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 6. Returning to Waco for Homecoming (Nov. 1-3)? Visit www.baylor.edu/homecoming/buy to get your tickets for Pigskin Revue and the Class Reunion Gatherings, hosted by the Baylor Alumni Network for those who graduated in 1973, 1978, 1983, […]
Do you remember the first time you heard about Baylor? Maybe it was from a family member, a friend, an advertisement, or somewhere on the Internet. For many, the first introduction to the green and gold comes from a teacher who just happened to be a Baylor Bear. Here are some of our favorite ways […]
As Baylor’s Board of Regents holds its regular summer meeting this week, six new Regents are taking their seats at the table to start new terms: two serving at-large, two elected by alumni, one appointed by the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT), and one new student Regent: Malcolm B. Foley, a Student Regent, is a […]
As a young girl in Uganda, Rose Nanyonga’s family envisioned a dark path for her. But after finding Christ, she found her way to America, where she earned degrees from Arkansas Tech, Baylor and Yale; today, she’s making an incredible difference back home in Uganda. But it almost didn’t end up that way. Born to […]
