If you were at this weekend’s Homecoming football game against Texas Tech, then you saw five Baylor honorees presented with the Herbert H. Reynolds Award for Exemplary Service: Dr. Paul Armitstead (pictured at right with his daughters), Dr. Kent Gilbreath, Ann Reed, Julie Hermansen Turner, and Jim Turner. Dr. Armitstead is the only one I’ve […]
Fresh on the heels of their recognition by The Princeton Review comes word that Baylor Law School students have once again claimed the top pass rate on the Texas State Bar Exam. 91 of the 93 Baylor students who took the test in July passed it on the first try (98%). Baylor also led the […]
No, this isn’t a repeat post. About a month ago, we were talking about how Baylor led the Big 12 (again) in football graduation rates. Yesterday, the NCAA released numbers pertaining to the athletic department as a whole, and for the second straight year, Baylor’s student-athletes lead the Big 12 Conference in Graduation Success Rate. […]
It’s a sign of just how good the Baylor women’s basketball program has become that having the Lady Bears make the preseason top 25 is now the norm; this year, the Lady Bears are ranked 13th, 14th, 15th and 17th, depending on which poll you look at. Baylor has been among the preseason top 25 […]
The world of law is a competitive one, so when you hear that the Princeton Review named Baylor Law School the second most competitive law school in the country, it really stands out. According to the Review, the ranking is based on how much time students spend studying outside of class, the level of competition […]
Baylor professor Dr. James Garven took the mandate to “fling our green and gold afar” quite seriously this summer. Garven was selected by a group of 13 Australian universities as one of three professors from across the globe to appear at a financial conference in Brisbane, Australia, in July. There, he spoke to a select […]
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 […]
Baylor’s Entrepreneurship Program in the Hankamer School of Business has been a leader in the field since 1977, when Baylor became one of the first three colleges in the country to offer an entrepreneurship major. Last month, Fortune Small Business recognized Baylor’s experience and expertise in its first-ever ranking of “America’s Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs.” […]
Soccer fans, you have three more chances to see one of the best goalkeepers in Big 12 Conference history play in Waco. Senior Ashley Noah, the Bears’ keeper for the past four seasons, broke former Baylor all-American Dawn Greathouse’s conference record for career saves this weekend against Oklahoma State. In the process, Noah became the […]
Sometimes it seems colleges forget that student-athletes are just that — students first, then athletes. But not at Baylor! For the sixth time in the Big 12 Conference’s 12-year history, the Bears lead the league in football graduation rate. The latest Graduation Success Rate (GSR) numbers from the NCAA show that 84% of Baylor football […]
