My, how far we’ve come from Sunday night fast food grab bags before the mad dash to catch up on assignments we should have been working on all weekend… Every Sunday night, the Great Hall in the new Brooks Residential College buzzes with the candor of great expectations as the men and women of Brooks […]
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 […]
Members of Baylor’s Class of 2011 began their college careers today. The class brings in a school-record average SAT score (1218), and 40% of the freshmen graduated in their high school’s top 10%. Those sorts of accolades helped Baylor rise six spots in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings to 75th, its highest […]
You never know who might make an appearance at good ole’ BU. Presidential political adviser Karl Rove breakfasted yesterday on campus with students in Baylor’s executive MBA program. On Wednesday, a grad student spotted Rove in the downtown Waco Hilton and slipped him a handwritten invite. Rove readily obliged and spent an hour and a […]
About 2,500 new Bears arrived on campus August 14 and 15. The move-in process was as smooth as butter with the 2,000 well-organized volunteer Baylor students, faculty and staff and area church members assisting literally at every turn. As construction workers hustled to place the finishing touches on the exterior of Brooks Village, the new […]
