{"id":6525,"date":"2011-07-06T09:13:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T09:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=6525"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:56:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T16:56:04","slug":"why-does-the-world-need-baylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2011\/07\/why-does-the-world-need-baylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does the world need Baylor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"candle-july11\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/candle-july11.jpg\" alt=\"Baylor\" width=\"225\" height=\"252\" \/>The question above is exactly what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylormag.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Baylor Magazine<\/em><\/a> is asking the Baylor family. What makes Baylor distinct from other universities? Why is it important for BU to be a part of the academic landscape today? What would the world miss if Baylor suddenly ceased to exist? Why is it worth our time, our support, our love?<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/alumni\/index.php?id=78290\" target=\"_blank\">Strategic Planning Process<\/a> continues to chart the course the university will follow for the next decade or more, these are questions that should be, and have been, on all our minds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/alumni\/magazine\/0904\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=95761\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Baylor Magazine<\/em> wants to hear from everyone on this<\/a> &#8212; alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff, friends, anyone affiliated with the university. Responses will run in the fall issue of the magazine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/alumni\/magazine\/0904\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=95761\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to share your thoughts.<\/a> They can be as long as a single sentence, or perhaps you have several paragraphs worth of answers to these questions. Thanks for your help!<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Bears!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question above is exactly what Baylor Magazine is asking the Baylor family. What makes Baylor distinct from other universities? Why is it important for BU to be a part of the academic landscape today? What would the world miss if Baylor suddenly ceased to exist? Why is it worth our time, our support, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-just-for-fun","category-vision","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525","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=6525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}