Last summer, when it looked like the Big 12 Conference was about to fall apart and Baylor would be left scrambling for a new league, pundits across the nation said BU didn’t belong in a major conference. One year later, their songs have changed, thanks to Añodeloso — the Year of the Bear. Are you […]
Baylor’s Class of 2012 has come and gone, and with its graduation from the university comes the end of an era. “Baylor 2012,” the ambitious (and at times, controversial) strategic plan set forth a decade, has reached its conclusion. The vision included dozens of specific goals. Many were met; others hit unexpected obstacles, but there’s […]
As a freshman living on campus, I met and got to know the four guys who would, almost a decade later, be groomsmen in my wedding. The experience of living in such close community with other young men and women, all in the same stage of life, was a priceless part of my Baylor experience. […]
If your mother is like mine, from the time you left home, she has urged you to call more often, write more often, visit more often. It’s not nagging; it’s because she loves you. (Parents, perhaps now you relate more to the mother than the child.) “Alma mater” means “dear mother,” and given the way […]
Rather than spin a lengthy narrative about Baylor’s athletic success in 2011-12, let’s just go straight to the facts: 80 combined wins across the “big three” sports (football, men’s and women’s basketball), the most of any school in NCAA history. 118 combined wins (and counting) across the “big four” (FB, MBB, WBB and baseball), rapidly […]
The numbers bear it out: Baylor’s student body is more diverse than ever before. Most noticeable are the changes in the student body’s mix of race/ethnicity, where Baylor’s undergraduate population has gone from 22% minority to 34.5% over the past decade. To give you some context, Baylor is now home to the second most diverse […]
It hasn’t been all that long since I was a student at Baylor, but when I walk the campus these days, I marvel at how many of the facilities students benefit from today have gone up since I graduated. The one that stands out the most is the Baylor Sciences Building (pictured; click on image […]
Finding balance has always been important at Baylor. Think “Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana.” “Worldwide leadership and service.” “Faith and learning.” Equally important is “teaching and research.” Baylor has a long history of great teachers, but in recent years the university has worked to bring its research efforts to a similar level. Baylor faculty contributions to […]
Think back over your Baylor experience; chances are that a professor who made time for you played a key part in helping you along the way. For generations, Baylor has been known as a place where students are names and faces, not numbers, and where most classes are taught by professors with experience, not TA’s […]
For all the attention given to the results of Baylor’s Vision 2012 over the past decade, not everything about the university is new. In fact, in some areas, Baylor has really returned to its roots. Baylor Chapel is a great example. Perhaps the university’s oldest tradition, Chapel has been a staple of the Baylor experience […]
