Hopefully you were among the thousands of Baylor alums who were able to make it back this weekend for the University’s 100th annual Homecoming. Campus (and, indeed, all of Waco) swarmed with activity as Bears past, present and future enjoyed all the usual events, from Pigskin to Bonfire to the Homecoming Parade to the football […]
In recent years, many educators have learned that preparing students for college doesn’t begin in high school; promoting post-secondary education increasingly begins in junior high and even elementary school. As part of a program called “Opportunity University,” each classroom at Swinburn Elementary in Tulia, Texas, adopts a college or university. Debbie Barnes, a fourth-grade math […]
A century ago, Baylor began training nurses in Dallas to serve in the Baptist General Convention of Texas’ new Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium (which would later become Baylor Hospital and now lives as the Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas). Today, that school — now Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing — has more than […]
Baylor football hosts the Kent State Golden Flashes tomorrow in the Bears’ final non-conference game of the season. Both tomorrow’s game (6 p.m., FSN Southwest) and the following week’s Big 12 opener at Oklahoma (2:30 p.m., ABC regional broadcast) have been picked up for television, so if you can’t make it to Waco or Norman […]
It’s been awhile since my mother came to visit me as a student during Baylor’s Parents Weekend, but I still remember how much fun it was to show her around campus (a far different experience than when we visited during Orientation, since I now actually knew where things were located) and introduce her to some […]
Having seen the difference that Baylor’s Paul L. Foster Success Center has made for students here in Waco, the University’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing (located in Dallas) recognized that their students could also benefit from such a set-up. Friday, that desire became a reality as the nursing school dedicated the Barnabas Success Center and […]
A year ago tomorrow, Hurricane Ike made landfall, devastating much of the Texas coast near Galveston. Here at Baylor, the University immediately sprung into action, providing counselors and financial aid for students whose families suffered in the storm and working to help others from the coast who needed assistance. Down in Galveston, a family of […]
Welcome Week will always have a special place in my heart — not only because it served as my introduction to college life, but also because I met the guys who would be come my best friends — indeed, my groomsmen many years later — during those first few days at Baylor. Even with the […]
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 freshmen are experiencing their first day of college classes today at Baylor (meet a few of them here, here and here). That means that late last week, even more students (plus family and friends) descended on Waco for Move-In Day 2009! For the uninitiated, Move-In Day at Baylor is […]
A century ago, nurses wore blue-and-white striped dresses and starched aprons. Their duties often included cooking for patients as well as caring for them — and nurses gave up nursing if they married. These days, nurses wear scrubs, train on simulator “patients” and have careers which may include military duty. Their ranks — unlike in the […]
