It takes a lot of hands to get something as big as a stadium from idea to reality. You could credit any number of folks with playing a large part in helping bring Baylor Stadium to life, from Robert Griffin III and Art Briles to Ken Starr and Ian McCaw. At Homecoming, four families were […]
It’s official: Baylor Stadium is coming to the banks of the Brazos. Baylor Regents officially approved the project Thursday during their summer meeting, just two days after the Waco City Council first voted to award $35 million toward public improvements of the stadium site. [See the latest Baylor Stadium design renderings.] Because the Waco City […]
Baylor’s Class of 2012 has come and gone, and with its graduation from the university comes the end of an era. “Baylor 2012,” the ambitious (and at times, controversial) strategic plan set forth a decade, has reached its conclusion. The vision included dozens of specific goals. Many were met; others hit unexpected obstacles, but there’s […]
Momentum continues to build toward a new Baylor football stadium. A month after Drayton McLane, BBA ’58, and his wife Elizabeth got things started with the largest capital gift in Baylor history, two more sizable gifts — each among the top 10 such donations ever at BU — have kept the ball rolling. The gift […]
As a freshman living on campus, I met and got to know the four guys who would, almost a decade later, be groomsmen in my wedding. The experience of living in such close community with other young men and women, all in the same stage of life, was a priceless part of my Baylor experience. […]
After nearly two years of planning — and guided by the input of thousands of alumni, students, faculty and staff like you — the Baylor Board of Regents last week approved the university’s new strategic vision, Pro Futuris, which will guide Baylor in the years to come. Pro Futuris builds on the foundation laid by […]
If your mother is like mine, from the time you left home, she has urged you to call more often, write more often, visit more often. It’s not nagging; it’s because she loves you. (Parents, perhaps now you relate more to the mother than the child.) “Alma mater” means “dear mother,” and given the way […]
Rather than spin a lengthy narrative about Baylor’s athletic success in 2011-12, let’s just go straight to the facts: 80 combined wins across the “big three” sports (football, men’s and women’s basketball), the most of any school in NCAA history. 118 combined wins (and counting) across the “big four” (FB, MBB, WBB and baseball), rapidly […]
The numbers bear it out: Baylor’s student body is more diverse than ever before. Most noticeable are the changes in the student body’s mix of race/ethnicity, where Baylor’s undergraduate population has gone from 22% minority to 34.5% over the past decade. To give you some context, Baylor is now home to the second most diverse […]
It hasn’t been all that long since I was a student at Baylor, but when I walk the campus these days, I marvel at how many of the facilities students benefit from today have gone up since I graduated. The one that stands out the most is the Baylor Sciences Building (pictured; click on image […]
