{"id":19778,"date":"2017-04-24T12:28:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T17:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=19778"},"modified":"2017-04-27T12:14:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T17:14:15","slug":"bearsofbaylor-thats-my-goal-to-get-us-all-to-work-together-to-move-baylor-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2017\/04\/bearsofbaylor-thats-my-goal-to-get-us-all-to-work-together-to-move-baylor-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"#BearsOfBaylor — “That\u2019s my goal — to get us all to work together to move [Baylor] forward.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

[NOTE: On Saturday, we had the chance to speak with\u00a0the newest Bear of Baylor,\u00a0Baylor President-Select\u00a0Linda Livingstone<\/a>, about her return to Baylor and her view of the university.]<\/em><\/p>\n

“One of the main reasons we decided to come back to Baylor was because we love the mission of Baylor. We think it\u2019s amazing to have a significant academic institution that participates at the highest level of college athletics and continues to maintain the integrity of its Christian mission. And so we\u2019re excited about that and looking forward to it.<\/p>\n

“Being at a Christian institution provides a deeper foundation that drives the decisions that you make in the organization and informs the curriculum, the people that you hire, the way that you do business, in a way that is different than if you\u2019re at a secular institution. And I think it means there\u2019s a deeper way of thinking about the formation of student life, because we\u2019re not only helping develop students intellectually and socially and physically; we\u2019re also helping them grow and develop spiritually, and that\u2019s really a unique opportunity at a Christian university.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m unbelievably excited about coming back, and everybody\u2019s been so gracious and welcoming. We\u2019ve received such a warm, enthusiastic welcome, and that means a lot. I really want, as we come back, to bring the Baylor family together, to get us on the same page moving the institution forward. We obviously have some difficult issues to continue to work through and address, but at the foundation, we have an unbelievably committed and passionate community around us. We need to bring that group together to move us forward in advancing our academic mission, to be a top-tier research university, while maintaining the integrity of our Christian mission. And along the way, we\u2019re going to\u00a0continue to excel at co-curricular activities, whether that\u2019s the arts or athletics or other things. That\u2019s my goal — to get us all to work together to move the institution forward.”<\/p>\n

\"Dr.<\/p>\n

[Every Baylor Bear has a story; #BearsOfBaylor brings those stories to you, one by one. These stories, these people… This is our Baylor.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[NOTE: On Saturday, we had the chance to speak with\u00a0the newest Bear of Baylor,\u00a0Baylor President-Select\u00a0Linda Livingstone, about her return to Baylor and her view of the university.] “One of the main reasons we decided to come back to Baylor was because we love the mission of Baylor. We think it\u2019s amazing to have a significant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bearsofbaylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}