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The Baylor Board of Regents approved a $982.2 million operating budget for 2026-27 and a new master’s degree in artificial intelligence during its regular May meeting Thursday, as university leaders celebrated what is expected to be the second-best fundraising year in Baylor history.

The low hum of steel guitars and neon-lit nostalgia will soon echo through Foster Pavilion. On Oct. 2, Baylor will trade sneakers and basketballs for cowboy boots and two-stepping when rising country artist Braxton Keith brings his high-and-lonesome Texas sound to Waco with the “Real Damn Deal” tour.

After a whirlwind of confusion, cyberattacks and shifting finals schedules, Baylor students are reacting to the nationwide Canvas outage with frustration, stress and uncertainty as the university prepares to move Friday final exams online to next Thursday.

Baylor announced this morning that all final exams scheduled for today would be moved to next Thursday and administered online after a nationwide Canvas outage disrupted studying and caused confusion across campus.

Hours before final exams begin for Baylor, a nationwide Canvas outage has left Baylor and thousands of other schools without access to the learning software and all of the study materials stored within it.

A group of sociology students worked with their professor to study the connection between loneliness and companionship, finding that quality of relationships combat loneliness more than quantity of relationships.

Jonathan Echols, the Career Center’s communications and media manager, said academics aren’t always the reason students feel unprepared to face the shifting job market. Echols said those who actively work on post-graduation employment are the ones who find it.

When she applied to Baylor Holly Hill, Fla., junior Natalie Lu initially believed her general education math course would be one of the easier requirements in her degree plan. When she got to Baylor, it was a different story.

First-year students gathered around Fountain Mall to commemorate their first year at Baylor. Through ice cream, yard games and fellowship with friends, many students reflected on a year of growth.

Despite uncertain job prospects amid stringent visa restrictions and policy changes in the U.S., graduating international students at Baylor remain hopeful and faithful as they navigate the next chapter of their lives.

When ChatGPT’s release brought large language models to the forefront in 2022, it also sparked a flurry of private-sector breakthroughs. Bigger and better models and the introduction of AI agents have created a challenging disparity between newly relevant skills and what’s taught in the classroom.

Four years after freshman move-in, the Honors Residential College dorms remain home to many graduating seniors today. While many students started looking for off-campus housing for their freshman or sophomore years, some seniors found the community of Memorial and Alexander Residence Halls worth sticking around for.

While first-generation students make up an estimated 16% of Baylor’s student body, Frisco senior Liberty Ferguson said significantly fewer take advantage of the available scholarships and programming, making student engagement a key success factor.

As a Spring senior in Baylor’s Air Force ROTC program, Alissa Zenero earned the Distinguished Graduate designation, awarded to the top 10% of ROTC cadets across the country, while also securing a coveted reserve pilot slot to fly the C-5M Super Galaxy out of Dover, Del.

Last year, two Baylor business students formed a nonprofit to collect dorm items during move-out and donate them to charities in need. Now after Bear-ly Used’s first year of operations, which donated over 13 storage pods worth of appliances, furniture and other goods, the team is back with bigger plans.

Baylor’s Laparoscopy Lab, known across campus simply as Laparo, gives freshmen hands-on surgical training and a full year of guided research experience before they ever apply to medical school.

Students who live in three of the two-year dorms at Baylor — Teal Residential College, Honor Residential College or Brooks Residential College — sign a two-year contract when they move in. For some, the experience grows their community. For others, it’s a fight to get out of the contract.

Live Nation has canceled the first month of the Post Malone and Jelly Roll “Big Stadium Tour,” including the May 19 show at McLane Stadium, the Baylor Lariat has learned.

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Dr. Alexander McNair, an associate professor of Spanish in the modern languages and cultures department, and Dr. Kelly Johnston, associate professor in curriculum and instruction in the Moody School of Education, were the two recipients of the 2026 Centennial Professors Award this year.

Residential chaplains are seminary students at George W. Truett Theological Seminary who choose to live alongside undergraduate students, dedicating 20 hours a week to providing spiritual support for the challenges of daily life.

Senior apparel design and product development majors showcased their work at the annual runway show and luncheon Thursday afternoon to commemorate their time at Baylor coming to a close. Hosted by Baylor Round Table, the event gave aspiring fashion designers and models a taste of the industry while highlighting students’ work.

That gap in understanding of the collaboration of patient care is what San Jose, Calif., sophomore Ananya Bharathapudi and Tulsa, Okla., junior Enzo Henry hope to address. Baylor’s Interprofessional Events, a series created in partnership with the Office of Prehealth Studies, aims to help students see healthcare as a team‑based, interconnected field.

Students submit course evaluations at the end of every semester, but faculty and administrators say the feedback is only one piece of a much larger system used to assess teaching. While some professors say evaluations lead to real course changes, others emphasize that responses are filtered for patterns — not isolated complaints.

The Rare Neurological Disorder Foundation will bring together researchers, clinicians and advocates Friday for its first Spring Assembly, featuring presentations from experts across several major medical institutions and highlighting student fellowship work in rare neurological disorders.

In the aftermath of national attention over Baylor hosting Turning Point USA on campus, statements made at the closed event have ignited controversy amongst students and faculty.

With nearly 120 years of combined experience in Penland Dining Hall, Elaine Battle, Linda Benson and Donna Majors have served thousands — maybe even millions — of meals to the Baylor community. But the three are known for far more than flipping omelets or making pizzas. Their careers are marked by countless relationships and acts of service that go beyond the women’s job descriptions.

Laura McNutt, assistant director of advising in Baylor’s College of Arts and Sciences, died April 17 at her home in Waco after a three-year battle with colon cancer. She was 38.

This April, the OEL welcomed its newest cohort of Vardaman Scholars, formerly known as Global Engage Fellows. The program, intended for rising sophomores or juniors, lasts for the duration of the student’s undergraduate career at Baylor. The program structure requires students to take two courses under the OEL’s Philanthropy & Public Service Program before undertaking an engaged learning project and becoming an engaged learning student leader.

The honor society Phi Alpha Theta and the Baylor history department host their department celebration just for students who are majors and minors in Cameron Park annually.