As a child, Fort Worth native Channing Godfrey Peoples, BA ’99, was riveted by the annual Miss Juneteenth pageant. (The holiday is a celebration of when the message of the United States’ abolition of slavery finally reached Texas; today, it is celebrated today across the South.) Peoples — a Baylor theatre graduate who was named one […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, the official Baylor Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts each asked the same question: “Which Baylor professor(s) made an impact in your life?” The query drew more than 600 responses, and — reflecting Baylor’s long history of excellent teachers — more than 450 Baylor professors were named at least once. […]
What does your Baylor experience mean to you? “There was a children’s book that a girl published a few years ago, B is for Baylor. I gave it to my grandkids one Christmas, and one of the fathers — who’s also a Baylor grad — said, ‘Why don’t you write down all the people in […]
What does your Baylor experience mean to you? “Like a lot of students, I grew up in a Christian household, and I really am grateful for the faith that my parents taught me. But when I came to college, I realized I had questions that I had never asked before and really felt a lot […]
What does your Baylor experience mean to you? Maria: “We met at Mission Waco, doing community service doing King’s Club. We would go in the neighborhoods on Saturday mornings and talk to kids and bring snacks and share Bible stories and get to know them. Then we joined the same sorority and we both got […]
