This weekend, Baylor held its Fall Premiere, a day-long event during which prospective students explore campus, experience a taste of college life, and ask questions of Baylor faculty and staff. On Saturday, from the Ferrell Center stage in front of thousands of students and their parents, Baylor Admissions surprised 30 high school seniors with the […]
Baylor’s new university commercial officially debuted late last month, first on social media and subsequently during national broadcasts of Baylor football games. The 30-second spot, which will be widely seen on television during Baylor sporting events throughout the year, continues the “#BaylorLights” theme we’ve seen develop over the past year: Every day, thousands of Baylor students, faculty, […]
It’s hosted three presidents and housed six national championship teams, welcomed some of the biggest country music acts in history, and christened tens of thousands of Baylor Bears who walked across its Commencement stage and exited as alumni. We’re talking, of course, about the Ferrell Center, which opened in style 30 years ago this week. […]
Baylor seniors Sarah Rost and Ashley Rich walked into their 8 a.m. business class last Friday expecting an ordinary day. Instead, they left with full-time job offers. This past summer, Rost and Rich interned in the human resources department at AT&T’s Dallas headquarters. Last Friday, their 4000-level class on human resources was interrupted by a […]
Baylor freshmen have a lot to look forward to at the start of each new school year: getting to know their new roommates, experiencing life on their own for the first time, and adjusting to the new world that is “college.” Of course, college freshmen all over the nation experience those things, too. What others […]
Baylor’s not the only school in the country where volunteers line up to help new students move into their residence halls — but it’s hard to believe any school does it better. Wednesday and Thursday, more than 3,300 new Baylor students (both freshmen and transfers) were helped into their new homes by more than 2,800 faculty, […]
While it’s common for incoming freshmen to be welcomed to college by campus leaders, it’s not so common for that encouragement to come in the form of a hymn — but that’s what we do at Baylor. Since 2008, each class of freshmen has received its own unique message of encouragement and hope written by University Chaplain Burt Burleson, […]
For the fourth year in a row, the Baylor Symphony Orchestra has won the American Prize in Orchestral Performance as the nation’s top collegiate orchestra! The American Prize is a national nonprofit competition in the performing arts. Baylor’s orchestra is the first ensemble in any of the competition’s categories to ever win first place four […]
Since 2003, Baylor’s Camp Success has provided a life-changing program to children with language and literacy disorders through the university’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Over a period of four weeks, children receive 50 hours of therapy — equal to a full year’s worth of work in many school districts. While this therapy would […]
In this blog, we write a lot about the outstanding achievements of Baylor Bears: the academic honors, the national trophies, the alumni who become household names. If we only focused on those, it would be easy for many other everyday, inspirational stories to go unnoticed. One of our favorite things to do is bring those stories to […]
