The nation’s oldest collegiate Homecoming celebration returns exactly a month from today: Baylor Homecoming 2018! If you haven’t already, it’s time to make your plans for Homecoming. Clear your calendar for Nov. 1-3 and schedule your visit now; a limited number of tickets are still available for some of the weekend’s main events, including for […]
Local coffee shops are a home away from home for many college students. Waco’s coffee scene offers several amazing shops for students to study, relax, connect and fuel up. So, who’s to thank for Waco’s thriving and growing coffee scene? For three of Waco’s most popular coffee spots, it’s Baylor alumni: Common Grounds — What […]
Around Baylor, we talk a lot about the “Baylor Family.” It’s probably the best thing about being involved with campus, whether as a student, parent, graduate, faculty/staff, or fan. It’s not exactly something that can easily be explained — but you know it when you see it. Baylor alumna Hannah Box recently sent us a note that […]
During his days as a Baylor student, Trey Wingo, BA ’85, would go home to Connecticut over breaks and watch a fledgling cable network called ESPN. As he took in the novelty of a cable network dedicated exclusively to sports, Wingo remembers thinking, “How cool would it be to be able to come home and […]
Thank you, Baylor Family — you made BU’s first university-wide Giving Day a success! In basically 24 hours, your 2,700+ gifts raised more than $520,000 in support of current and future Baylor students. (For context, that’s both more gifts and more money than TCU raised during their last giving day — because beating TCU is always […]
Col. Althea Williams, MHA ’60, was called “Chief Nurse” more times than we can count. When she retired from the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in 1970, she was one of the highest ranking women in the Army. In San Francisco, they threw an entire parade in her honor when she retired. So… just who was […]
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 10 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 […]
