Baylor graduates make an impact in virtually any field you can think of; this year’s Baylor Alumni Award winners are no different, with recipients leading the charge in everything from business and technology to medicine and the arts. Congratulations to this year’s honorees: Alumna of the Year: Thasunda Brown Duckett (MBA ’01), president and CEO […]
It’s been more than three weeks since Baylor football wrapped up its 2021 season with a commanding 21-7 Sugar Bowl victory over No. 8 Ole Miss — but the honors continue to pour in. Most notably, head coach Dave Aranda’s Bears finished No. 5 in the country in the final AP poll — the program’s […]
Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers has almost 400 locations nationwide — including one just across I-35 from campus. It’s a popular stop among students and staff for burgers, shakes and custard, but its proximity is far from the restaurant’s only tie to Baylor. Freddy’s new CEO is a Baylor graduate and former linebacker who built […]
For the fourth time in five years, a Baylor School of Education (SOE) graduate has been named Clinical Teacher of the Year for the state of Texas! This year’s honoree: Alexandra Ronnenberg (BSED ’21), who received the award — which honors senior-level teacher-education students — from the Texas Directors of Field Experience (TDFE) last fall. […]
A new season begins this weekend for Baylor men’s and women’s tennis, with the perennial contenders building on past successes with high expectations in the new year. The men begin 2022 ranked No. 2 nationally, coming off a national championship match appearance and a Big 12 title in 2021. The women are not far behind, […]
In mid-December, Baylor received a surprise early Christmas present: the attainment of R1 status, three years earlier than expected. “R1” has been a big buzzword around campus for the past few years — but what exactly is it? And, perhaps more importantly, what does it mean for Baylor moving forward? First off, “R1” is shorthand […]
One could make a very good case that, in only the Bears’ second year under head coach Dave Aranda, we just saw the best Baylor football team ever in 2021. No Bears team has ever won more games; Baylor finished 12-2 on the season, including a program-record five wins over ranked opponents. They just won […]
It took a lot of effort and persistence, but on Dec. 6, 1976 — 45 years ago this month — the Baylor University chapter (Zeta of Texas) of Phi Beta Kappa was chartered. Phi Beta Kappa, as you may know, is the nation’s oldest scholastic honor society (and the first American society to have a […]
On the field and in the classroom, Baylor is leading the Big 12 Conference — as the reigning conference champ in football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball — and now (once again), graduation rate. For the eighth straight year, Baylor student-athletes have led the Big 12 Conference in Graduation Success Rate (GSR) — extending a run that […]
Yesterday, the Baylor Family far and wide celebrated the announcement that Baylor had joined the top-tier of American research universities as an “R1” research institution. Baylor is now recognized by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning as a doctoral university with “very high research activity” — one of just 137 such institutions nationally […]
