Peter Osborne

Peter Osborne

Not at Baylor?

Despite pouring rain on a chilly November day, more than 1,200 Baylor students and staff lined up outside Moody Library and patiently waited their turn to fill bags with 47,000 pounds of watermelon, grapefruit, eggs, breads, pastries, and other foods. Most left drenched but loaded down with food that would refill empty refrigerators in off-campus […]

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SOS Strength of Schedule 

It’s a key indicator for the NCAA basketball tournament selection when they’re picking – and seeding – teams for March Madness. And over the past five years, Baylor Basketball ranks in the Top 10 nationwide for average strength of schedule. The responsibility for building that schedule falls to assistant coach Sam Patterson ’08, MSED ’10,

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A Very Long Road

In February 2016, four Texas universities -Texas Tech, the Univer­sity of North Texas, the University of Texas at Arlington, and the University of Texas at Dallas – joined the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M, Rice University, and the University of Houston on the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Edu­cation listing of 115

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Lessons Learned

Just seven years ago, more than 84 percent of Baylor’s endowment assets were in what is known as Level 3 assets, meaning they were illiquid and estimating their value required input that couldn’t be observed and reflected manage­ment assumptions.  Put another way, a percentage like that makes many finan­cial analysts twitch. They may carry greater

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