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Less than two years ago, the Baylor Counseling Center (BUCC) had one staff person for every 1,775 students, which is at the national average for all colleges, according to the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors. Today, that ratio is roughly one for every 750 students, a figure that puts the school ahead […]

The 1960s and early 1970s became a golden age of Baylor Journalism. For one span of time an assortment of students and faculty put the Baylor Journalism Department and student publications on the map. Looking back, what they accomplished seems unusual. At the time it seemed normal.  The students were a wonderful group. They were

When Liberated hits movie screens this fall, audiences will witness Spring Break party scenes from South Padre to Panama City Beach and ending in Cancun. But this isn’t your conventional sex-fueled romp, designed to pack movie theaters with hormonal teenagers and young adults. Liberated attempts to answer questions about how our conception of gender fuels

BACK IN 1973, THE NOZE BROTHERHOOD welcomed Leon Jaworski into its membership when the new Watergate Special Prosecutor came to town to be the Homecoming grand marshal. As he rode down the streets of Waco to cheers from the crowd, the NoZe brotherhood marched behind him holding signs that urged alumni to “clap if he’s

More than 7,200 bricks make up the Bear Walk that leads to McLane Stadium and one of those bricks is mine. My parents bought it for me more than a year before I would receive my acceptance letter from Baylor as a part of the class of 2020. They told me, whether I went to

We asked retiring faculty and senior staff members to reflect on their most enduring memory at Baylor. We received responses from 16 of them and are recognizing the rest with a reminder of how they served Baylor and its students. Cynthia Ann Burgess was Librarian/Curator for Armstrong Browning Library. My enduring memory of Baylor would

More than 180 Baylor undergrads and high-school seniors applied this year for Legacy Scholarships. After much deliberation, we decided to increase the amount of the scholarships to $2,000 each (from $1,000 in past years), which meant this year’s awards will have a bigger individual impact but fewer students would receive them. As in past years,

Over the past year, 784 Baylor students studied abroad for academic credit. That number does not include students on mission trips or students doing formal research, but it does include the roughly 524 students who are spending the summer on faculty-led programs. These students were appropriately matched to one of the nearly 100 study abroad

We hope you’ll make the Baylor Line Foundation part of your Baylor Football gameday experience by joining us each home game for our gameday tailgates. Starting two and a half hours prior to kickoff, we’ll have food, drinks, and fun times at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame (1108 S University Parks Dr.). These tailgates,

Dr. Linda Livingstone became the 15th president of Baylor University on June 1, returning to the school she served as an associate dean and associate professor from 1991 to 2002. Livingstone was considered for the same job back in 2005, when she was a finalist to replace Robert Sloan as president. She most recently served