After a year of limited in-person events (including postponed May, August and December 2020 Commencement ceremonies), it was especially joyous to be able to gather together this weekend and celebrate both the Classes of 2020 and 2021 with graduation ceremonies at McLane Stadium! A beautiful day for Commencement — congrats to each & every #BaylorGrad! […]
This year’s COVID-condensed spring calendar didn’t have room for a full day off, the way Diadeloso is traditionally celebrated. But the spirit of Dia must live on — and Baylor found a way, with a week-long series of evening activities informally dubbed “Semana del Oso”! Each night last week, campus hosted traditional (in-person!) Diadeloso activities. […]
Eighteen years ago, it all began with a simple press conference. Now, here we are: the Baylor Bears are the 2020-21 NCAA men’s basketball national champions!!!! In what was billed as a “historically good” national title game match-up, head coach Scott Drew’s Bears blew out national No. 1 seed (and previously undefeated) Gonzaga, 86-70, to […]
Last summer, Baylor’s Board of Regents established a Commission on Historic Campus Representations to review the history of the university, its founders, and its early leaders for connections to slavery and the Confederacy. The Commission spent the next six months looking at Baylor’s history and developing a series of recommendations on how the university can […]
As one Baylor student put it, “Black history is not just for Black people. Black history is American history, so I want to make sure that we’re able to share it, and engage with it.” That effort doesn’t end just because the calendar has rolled from February (and Black History Month) on into March. In […]
In a film career that’s spanned three decades, Baylor alum John Lee Hancock (BA ’79, JD’ 82) has written and/or directed such hit movies as The Blind Side, The Rookie, and Saving Mr. Banks. Now, almost one year after his last release, Hancock is behind the camera once again for his 12th feature film, The […]
Sunday morning, it started snowing in Waco — a rare occurrence, but not unheard of. And then it kept coming down, and kept coming, and kept coming — and by 6 p.m., Waco had officially received 4.4 inches of snow, the most since January 1982. As Baylor Bears, we are blessed to have a beautiful […]
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Baylor Line — one of college football’s great traditions. (If you’re new and wondering, “What’s the Baylor Line?”, we’ve got you covered here.) As part of the 50th anniversary celebration, Baylor Student Activities put together three incredible videos they call “Stories from the Line” — tales that […]
With students heading home for the semester at Thanksgiving this year, many wondered — what would become of Christmas on 5th Street in 2020? Rather than cancel the beloved tradition, Student Activities got to work and converted it into a special 30-minute broadcast, which aired live online last Thursday night. Thousands of Bears tuned in […]
Chapel has been a tradition at Baylor literally since the university’s beginning — but over the years, it has taken a lot of different forms. It was something every student took every year until the student body grew too big to congregate in one place; in more recent decades, it has transformed from Chapel to […]
