September at Baylor just wouldn’t be the same without Freshman Follies, an annual campus tradition since long before I arrived here. The free event gives first-year students a chance to unwind and just be silly, dousing one another with food and shaving cream. Most of us could use a day like that every now and […]
Baylor’s School of Social Work recently was honored with the 2008 Texas Homeless Network Outstanding Community Service Award, which annually goes to the person or group “that has helped advance policies or innovative solutions to homelessness or worked with communities to make a difference in fighting homelessness.” The School of Social Work was recognized for […]
The most recent issue of Baylor Magazine included a feature on Baylor’s Louise Herrington School of Nursing that examined the people who, on the cusp of the school’s 100th anniversary, make the LHSON such a special place. The subjects ranged from faculty to students, alumni in local hospitals to alumni on the mission field, to […]
Even though students have only been back on campus for about a month, the effort to recruit students for next year and beyond has been underway for quite some time already. Last Saturday, the University welcomed over 1,100 students and more than 4,000 total participants to campus for Fall Premiere, one of the largest days […]
While many who live along the Gulf Coast are still without power and working to get their lives back in order after Hurricane Ike, Baylor University is doing what it can to help its students and their families. After the storm made its way through Texas, University officials began to contact the 800 or so […]
How did you spend your summer? For many Baylor students, the answer to that question is “helping others.” * Over 160 students visited AIDS clinics, installed hydro-electric generators, tutored children and shared the Gospel on Baylor-sponsored mission trips across the globe this summer. Baylor Magazine compiled this powerful series of journal entries and reflections on […]
We covered most of this back when school started a couple of weeks ago, but now that official numbers are in, we thought it was worth following up on. As expected, Baylor’s freshman class is the second-largest in school history (that’s some of them pictured at right, during Late Night at the SLC). The Class […]
It seems like recently news of the upcoming presidential election is everywhere you turn. A couple of weeks, during the Democratic National Convention, I flipped through the channels and found vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s acceptance speech being carried live on 12 of the 80 or so channels I get on cable — 15%! But, knowing […]
Earlier this summer, we profiled quite a few members of this year’s freshman class (see here and here, for example). But here’s one we missed: the reigning Miss Black Teen Texas USA, Jordan Franklin! Franklin was given the crown last July after winning the talent and evening gown competitions; she was also named Miss Hospitality […]
As a student at Baylor, I was overwhelmed by the number and variety of extracurricular activities offered, on campus and off. In addition to the posted fliers and the sidewalk chalking that still goes on, today’s students receive a weekly e-mail newsletter called “On the Baylor Horizon” that lets them know of events going on […]
