{"id":528,"date":"2008-07-07T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T14:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/07\/07\/looking-back-at-2007-08\/"},"modified":"2008-07-07T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T14:16:07","slug":"looking-back-at-2007-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/07\/looking-back-at-2007-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back on a record-setting 2007-08 school year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BaylorThe Baptist Standard<\/em> ran a nice wrap-up last week of Baylor’s significant developments and achievements<\/a> from 2007-08. Among the year’s highlights:<\/p>\n

* Welcoming the most academically qualified freshman class<\/a> in school history;
\n* Jumping six spots to No. 75 in the U.S. News<\/em> rankings<\/a>, Baylor’s best-ever mark;
\n* Adding 15 new faculty positions and 31 new staff positions;
\n* The positive national story<\/a> that followed the men’s basketball team making the NCAA Tournament<\/a> for the first time in 20 years; and
\n* An increase to 40 percent in the number of students living on campus<\/a> as Brooks Village<\/a> opened.<\/p>\n

The one that jumped out to me was the increase in giving to the University<\/a>. During the past year, Baylor received more than $80 million in gifts and pledges, including more than $21.9 million given specifically to Baylor’s endowment — the seventh straight year Baylor has seen an increase in the support of endowed scholarships, endowed faculty positions and endowed programs. Overall, Baylor’s endowment increased to a school-record $1.1 billion this year, even while the financial market has struggled nationwide.<\/p>\n

KCEN-TV ran this short report<\/a>, and there’s plenty more in the official release<\/a>. (And of course, we’ve covered even more to be proud of on the Baylor Proud blog<\/a>.) As President Lilley said, “Alumni and friends of Baylor University should be greatly encouraged with our remarkably strong trajectory.”<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, Baylor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Baptist Standard ran a nice wrap-up last week of Baylor’s significant developments and achievements from 2007-08. Among the year’s highlights: * Welcoming the most academically qualified freshman class in school history; * Jumping six spots to No. 75 in the U.S. News rankings, Baylor’s best-ever mark; * Adding 15 new faculty positions and 31 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}