“I think if we’re doing our jobs right, the impact is not even noticed by the folks on campus,” Burnias said. “You know, our mission is to maximize the student experience on campus. We don’t see our mission as doing cleaning or maintenance or grounds. It’s to maximize the student experience on campus.”
Author: Tatum Mitchell
Seven years after being fired as head football coach amid Baylor’s sexual assault scandal, Art Briles took the stand Thursday to say he had “no awareness” of Title IX policies at the time and that he “would certainly think” it was the university’s responsibility to train him.
Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Pete Sessions addressed a sold-out crowd about name, image and likeness legislation, Texas jobs and more Friday at the Baylor Club.
Two American black bear cubs, Judge Indy and Judge Belle, are expected to arrive at the on-campus Bill and Eva Williams Bear Habitat this summer, Baylor announced Monday.
The Board of Regents approved two new degree programs, three renovation projects and the 2023-2024 budget during its annual May meeting Friday. It also elected new leadership.
Yes, college is exciting and nerve-wracking all at once, but using the free days before classes start can work to your advantage.
“It’s really like a big family when you start to get to know the athletes and all of the family members they have, and you just become a part of that group. They all really care about each other and they’re really supportive,” Hoeft said. “It’s a really nice environment to be in.”
I can’t say I’ve ever unpacked or thought about unpacking the day after getting back to school, but my personal goal is to have it done within a week. Schedule a laundry and organization day for yourself to gradually get things together.
For two months, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., senior Ethan Moore said he got an Army internship working at the U.S. Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany, an experience that changed him forever.
For the person tipping, it’s easy to move on from leaving a zero on the tip section of a receipt or pressing one simple button. For the employee on the other end, though, tipping impacts both their paycheck and their livelihood.
Myth-busting soulmates is a hard pill to swallow, but despite this reality, love is a beautiful thing. You can be a hopeless romantic and still understand the logical aspects of it all.
Brittney Griner, eight-time WNBA All-Star and former Lady Bear, has received a nine-and-a-half-year sentence from a Russian court on cannabis possession charges, six months after her arrest at a Moscow airport.
Phineas and Ferb were only wrong about the numbers. We have 102 days of summer vacation, and the annual problem for our generation is finding a good way to spend it. In between building a rocket and fighting a mummy, let’s make sure there’s a balance of both laziness and getting stuff done.
Men are nursing the numbers to new heights. About 12% of registered nurses are now male, and according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Southern New Hampshire University’s website, the percentage of men in nursing is projected to grow in future years.
“We’re going to have to rebuild our reproductive rights and protections from the ground up with legislation, and the only way we can do that is get a pro-choice legislature everywhere,” Cheryl Foster, Waco community member and former Planned Parenthood volunteer, said. “So, Nov. 8 is our first opportunity to stop this nonsense.”
“What I loved about Baylor — that I think we have retained even though we’ve grown larger — is it felt like a community,” Ford said. “When I walked across campus, I saw people I knew. I was able to get to know my professors. I felt like I got to know everybody in my classes.”
“This is such a special journey for all of our students, but for our first-generation students, there’s that extra layer of that uniqueness of the journey in them being the first in their families to pursue higher education,” Michelle Gonzalez, program manager, said. “It’s a huge accomplishment. We can’t let them just graduate and not lift them up one more time.”
“Our goal is that this is not something that becomes novel or special,” director Sam Henderson said. “We think this will be successful if this is really just the start of something that is a normal occurrence.”
“Baylor says it’s home, but it hasn’t been home for queer students,” Gonzalez said. “We’ve had to carve out spaces for ourselves, and because of that, when Baylor gives us a group like this, of course some people were apprehensive. But we want to say that we support PRISM; we can coexist and have numbers in both.”
“It’s a place for discussion,” Aquino said. “It’s a place for mentorship. It’s a place for networking. Hopefully, the big picture goal or long-term goal is to advance the plight of women in academia and in STEM specifically.”
“It was already difficult for low-income families to find affordable housing, and in the last couple of years, housing costs have skyrocketed,” Alexander said. “The cost of building, property taxes, insurance — all of that has gone up, which affects the rental payments that people are paying, so the options for affordable housing are limited.”
No matter a university’s religious affiliation, all students should have access to health services and education regarding their body’s safety. There are ways to combat the lack of reproductive education young adults receive before their college years.
Baylor’s work toward diversity and inclusion within faculty, staff and students has changed throughout the years. According to reports from Institutional Research and Testing (IRT) from 2002 and 2021, full-time faculty has gone from a 92.4% white demographic to an 80.8% white demographic. Additionally, there is currently a 38.4% minority student population on campus.
A spark lit from over 900 miles apart when Dr. Robin Wallace, professor of musicology, and Meg Wallace, adjunct in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, first met each other. The now-married couple connected in 2011 through an online discussion group that sparked from a blog of Sojourners magazine.
“[Better Together] was created out of this need for religious minorities, and also the religious majority here at Baylor, to learn more about their neighbors and to develop that understanding between groups,” The Woodlands junior and civic interfaith leader Noor Saleh said.
“I’ve been the first to do a lot of things,” Palacios said. “Even in the School of Education, I was the only Latina professor for over 10 years. I’ve been the first or the only at basically everything I’ve done. I’ve been excited about that. I love that I was able to leave my footprints and have an impact on different things that we still continue to do.”
“I think as you become more aware of things, you realize where there might be a problem,” clinical professor Dr. Kelsey Ragan said. “Building your awareness and noticing things around you that might make something less accessible to someone with a disability and then advocate to make that a more inclusive environment.”