When you leave Baylor University, how will you be remembered? For years, Baylor’s graduating seniors have contributed towards a class gift to benefit other students after they are gone. Recent class gifts have led to the re-landscaping of gardens around Burleson Quadrangle and the creation of a prayer garden next to Marrs McLean Gymnasium. My […]
Baylor students, faculty and staff pitched in last week to give hundreds of underprivileged local children a little something extra this Christmas. Approximately 800 kids converged on Baylor’s McLane Student Life Center for Santa’s Workshop, where Mr. and Mrs. Claus waited to gave out presents donated by the Baylor family. Volunteers shared lunch and played […]
It’s December, which means Christmas is quickly approaching. Here at Baylor, as always, the Christmas season kicked off last Thursday night with Christmas on 5th Street, including KOT’s 42nd annual Christmas Tree Lighting. Concerts by Chris Rice and Clay Walker followed, with proceeds benefitting multiple sclerosis research. Click here or on the photo at right […]
In July, a group of 17 Baylor students left Texas for China, where they joined with their peers overseas to produce real-world business solutions — in just six weeks. During that time, the students worked for some of the international companies that partner with the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, the students’ hosts […]
Baylor’s interior design program is one of the school’s smaller programs; in 2006-07, only one of the 2,400 bachelor’s degrees awarded by the University was in interior design. But that’s not stopping the program from bringing in accolades for Baylor. Last month, students claimed first and second place awards at the Texas Chapter of the […]
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 […]
On Monday, we wrote about the results USA Today ran from the National Survey of Student Engagement. Today, we’ve got some more interesting data from the survey. Baylor clearly outshines its peers in two questions that encompass the entire college experience. First-year students and seniors were each asked “How would you evaluate your entire educational […]
According to data gathered by USA Today, Baylor students are happier with their college choice than students at similar schools across virtually all areas of the college academic experience. Over 250 universities across the country shared their data from the National Survey of Student Engagement with USA Today. The publication categorized Baylor as a high-research […]
It’s an epidemic — first Jeopardy, then Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, and now Wheel of Fortune! Baylor sophomore Nick Herring won almost $30,000 this week on Wheel, despite missing the final puzzle. Not a bad haul for a half-hour’s work, eh? For more on Herring’s experience, you can read this Lariat article or […]
One of my biggest regrets looking back on college was that I didn’t participate in more activities on campus, especially as a freshman. It took me awhile to break out of my shell, and so I missed out on a lot of fun — things like Freshman Follies, for instance. The longstanding tradition continued earlier […]
