Baylor released its spring 2008 enrollment numbers Monday, and student retention rates are up across all undergraduate groups. According to the University, the retention rate for all undergraduates increased to 94.9% this spring; last spring saw 94.6% of students returning. Retention rates were also up among first-time freshmen, provisionally admitted students, and transfers. For the […]
Baylor’s reputation as a university with faculty recognized as leaders in their discipline received a nice boost this week as, for the second year in a row, a Baylor professor took home the New Scholars Achievement Award from the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools (CSGS). The CSGS, which includes all major graduate schools in 17 […]
Just about every college student does something others might call “crazy” at least once while in school, but few take it to as grand a scale as this: four Baylor juniors are going to bicycle from Waco to Anchorage, Alaska, this summer to raise awareness for suicide prevention. After talking to a friend who had […]
As college tuition costs have risen across the nation in recent years, many parents are wondering how they will ever afford a college education for their children. The desire to fund more scholarships for students is at the heart of Baylor’s push towards a $2 billion endowment (an important part of Vision 2012). Thankfully, Baylor […]
Not one, but two books by Baylor professors made the American Library Association’s list of the Top 10 Books in Religion for 2007. The Listening Heart: Vocation and the Crisis of Modern Culture, by the late Dr. A.J. “Chip” Conyers, and Discovering God: The Origins of the Great Religions and the Evolution of Belief, by […]
Last week I took a tour of the new Paul L. Foster Success Center following its dedication. If I hadn’t known I was walking into the old Sid Richardson building, I would never have believed that this was the same place where I fought my way through so many math and science classes just a […]
Provost Randall O’Brien made a couple of points in a speech to faculty and staff last month that I’ve been meaning to write about. First, he noted that Baylor’s first-year scholarship dollars have more than doubled in the last five years, from $12 million in 2002 to $25 million this year. That increase almost certainly […]
A lot of people have compared the new Brooks College’s design to the Hogwarts School described in the Harry Potter novels, and aesthetically, that’s not far off. In fact, much of the college’s look was modeled after features at Oxford — which just happened to have served as a filming location for the Harry Potter […]
With almost a month of classes gone by already, Baylor released some official numbers Tuesday that look outstanding. As you may have heard, interest in Baylor is on the rise. For the fifth straight year, high school student applications set a new Baylor record; 26,514 students applied to start school this fall, blowing away the […]
As part of Welcome Week, new Baylor students spent Saturday helping improve the Waco community. Many students worked to help clean up Downtown Waco, while others framed a house on campus for Habitat for Humanity. Click here or on the image for a slideshow of their efforts. Looks like these new students are already quickly […]
