Baylor We Are: A Melting Pot
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...
View ArticleBaylor We Are: Winning with Integrity
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...
View ArticleBaylor We Are: A Family
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...
View ArticleRegents approve university’s new strategic vision, ‘Pro Futuris’
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...
View ArticleBaylor We Are: Lifelong Friends
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...
View ArticleSignificant gifts towards Baylor Stadium keep project moving ahead
Momentum continues to build toward a new Baylor football stadium. A month after Drayton McLane, BBA ’58, and hiw wife Elizabeth got things started with the largest capital gift in Baylor history, two...
View ArticleWaco Tribune-Herald looks back at 10 years of ‘Baylor 2012′
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...
View ArticleRegents officially approve Baylor Stadium project
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...
View ArticleBaylor Stadium Founders honored for helping bring football back to campus
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...
View ArticleHankamer School of Business looks toward new home on east side of campus
After Baylor Stadium, what’s next for the Baylor campus? How about a new home for the Hankamer School of Business? At their February meeting, Regents approved fundraising for a new facility on the...
View ArticleBaylor Stadium debut just 18 months away
If everything continues to run according to plan, we’re now less than 18 months from the debut of Baylor Stadium as the new home for Baylor football. On Aug. 30, 2014, the Bears are scheduled to host...
View ArticleBaylor’s Texas Hunger Initiative making strides in reducing hunger across Texas
Despite some tremendous results in helping reduce hunger across the state, Baylor University’s Texas Hunger Initiative (THI) has flown somewhat under the radar since its founding in 2009. But no...
View ArticleLargest gift in Baylor history to support new b-school building and Baylor...
Baylor’s planned new business school building got an incredible boost Tuesday when the university announced a $35 million gift from Paul L. Foster, BBA ’79, that will support both the new facility and...
View ArticleNew renderings released of Baylor Stadium, Foster business campus
At last week’s Regents meeting, Baylor’s Board released new renderings of the university’s two largest active projects: Baylor Stadium and the Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation (a new...
View ArticleSee 10 months of Baylor Stadium construction in just 30 seconds
In barely 48 hours, more than 80,000 people have watched this short time-lapse video showing 10 months of Baylor Stadium construction. It’s definitely worth 30 seconds of your time. For more such...
View ArticleOne year out, Baylor Stadium starting to take shape
If you picked up a newspaper or turned on a TV around the state over the weekend, there’s a good chance you saw coverage of Baylor Stadium‘s construction. A media tour of the site Friday attracted...
View ArticleEast Village welcomes its first residents
As is tradition around here, hundreds of student, faculty and staff volunteers spent hours in the Texas summer heat Wednesday and Thursday to help 3,000-plus Baylor freshmen get moved into their new...
View ArticleOnce a shuttered tire plant, BRIC facility now home to 21st-century research
Hundreds of Waco residents visited Baylor’s new research park during an evening open house last week. A large portion of the crowd was no doubt there to see how an old tire plant — one that once...
View ArticleFoster Campus for Business and Innovation officially approved by Regents
While Baylor Regents had previously approved initial funding for design work on the facility, it wasn’t until this past weekend at Homecoming that the Board officially approved construction of the new...
View ArticleAfter Baylor Stadium and the Foster business campus — what’s next?
The current (Fall 2013) issue of Baylor Magazine includes an excellent feature on Baylor’s campus master plan — the planning process that goes into it, how it guides university decisions, etc. If you...
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