Baylor students, faculty and staff annually volunteer more than 150,000 hours of local community service. The hope is that such an attitude of service continues long after graduation. One young Baylor alum recently was honored for her service, receiving the President’s Volunteer Service Award, which was created by President Bush in 2002 “as a way […]
A couple of days ago, we wrote about how Baylor Law School was providing an excellent service to the community with its People’s Law School. Today comes word that a number of Baylor business school students are getting in on the act, as well, working with the A.J. Moore Academy to help local low-income families […]
Baylor’s has joined a growing number of universities in opening a campus chapter of ONE, a non-profit group dedicated to raising awareness of extreme poverty. In fact, the Baylor chapter has grown so quickly that it already ranks among the top 50 in the nation. For its efforts, Baylor got to send a representative to […]
The Baptist Standard picked up on a story recently about work that Baylor researchers are doing to bring clean water to a town in Mongolia. Dr. Rene Massengale, an assistant professor of biology, is leading the project. Industrial mining in the area has led to environmental contamination, which in turn has led to water laced […]
7-year-old Taylor Darling has been fighting cancer for nearly two years; thankfully, it is now in remission. As she travels the road back to good health, she’ll have a new companion: a 6-year-old black quarter pony horse she named “Fudge.” The pony was a gift from the Make-A-Wish Foundation and was presented during an intermission […]
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 […]
Bill Glass was Baylor football’s first unanimous consensus All-America selection, but for the past four decades, he’s dedicated himself to what is now known as Champions for Life, a prison ministry Glass started three years after he finished a 10-year NFL career. The Amarillo Globe-News recently ran a nice feature on Glass and his work. […]
What did you do with your summer? Baylor students working with University Ministries traveled to Armenia, Honduras, Kenya and Mexico, where they built homes, led children’s Bible clubs, hosted a camp for deaf and hearing-impaired children, gave immunizations, constructed a micro-hydro-generator, set up free health clinics, installed a water purification system, and ministered to HIV/AIDS […]
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 […]
