Of 3,259 first-time freshmen who set foot on campus in the fall 2010 semester, 476 opted not to return for their sophomore year, according to Baylor’s Office of Institutional Research and Testing. While some assume students leave because their scholarship packages fail to keep up with rising tuition costs, data compiled by the office of the provost indicate people leave for a variety of reasons, some of which supersede or exacerbate financial difficulties.
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With the help of modern technology, many student relationships are held together across long distances with date nights being replaced by phone calls or Skype sessions.
Some students feel that the standard of equality and normalcy at Baylor stops at sexual orientation.
Life can be drastically different at Baylor depending on your relationship status.
Two boilers on campus providing heat and hot water to the buildings stopped working at around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The Student Senate shot down a bill Thursday whose sponsors argued statements made at a university-sponsored event were out of line with university policy.
More than a decade of compiled research highlighting the lives and legacies of Baylor’s fallen soldiers has been published and released in book form.
Two Air Force ROTC cadets have found a new way to honor fallen Baylor alumni.
Baylor’s Executive Master of Business Administration program is ranked No. 35 in the nation, according to the new Executive MBA rankings by the Financial Times.
Two Baylor alumnae have decided to follow their passions and return to school. Ann Golding, class of 1979, and Susan Rutledge, class of 1986, both attended the Dallas Theological Seminary.
A team of five students will represent Baylor at FanTAXic, a national tax competition held by Deloitte LLP, a tax-consulting agency that focuses on audit and financial services.
Two boilers on the Baylor campus, which provide heat and hot water to Baylor’s residence halls, are currently not operating.
Participants in the 1940s Youth for Christ Revival are still as passionate about sharing the gospel today as they were 70 years ago, and they are praying for God to start a new revival with today’s generation.
Members of the Baylor community poured into a packed Waco Hall on Wednesday to hear former U.S. secretary of state Dr. Condoleezza Rice discuss U.S. foreign policy issues and her new book with Baylor President Ken Starr.
An armed robbery occurred at around 8:10 a.m. Wednesday at the La Mirage apartments, close to Baylor campus. The victim in the robbery was not injured and is not a Baylor student.
Dr. James O’Donnell explored the changing light in which Christians viewed other religions Wednesday in his lecture “The Death of the Gods: What We Can Learn from the Pagans.”
Baylor and Waco Police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at 8:10 a.m. today at the La Mirage Apartments, 909 Baylor Ave. The suspect in the robbery was last seen on Baylor Avenue headed west toward 10th Street. The suspect is described as a black male, 5’ 8”, in his mid-20s with a goatee beard/mustache and was seen wearing a black/gray jacket and blue jeans.
Damaged equipment and a lack of space often cause problems for active students in the McLane Student Life Center.
A new mass spectrometry lab will soon be under construction in the Baylor Sciences Building and should be completed sometime during the spring of 2012.
Faculty members should have a seat at the table when the university determines whether to allow certain academic speakers a platform on campus as decided by the Faculty Senate at its meeting Tuesday.
As heat rises across the country in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, questions have arisen as to the role, limits and personification of corporations.
The Baylor Board of Regents moved one step closer to allowing the construction of a new on-campus football stadium at its homecoming meeting Friday, while also approving an ambitious set of capital investments, including the construction of a new $70 million student housing and dining complex.
Students hungry for a cause can attend the second annual Spaghetti Not-So-Formal dinner benefitting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday in 510 Cashion Academic Center.
Baylor Athletics released an architectural rendering of a potential riverfront stadium today.
The Baylor Board of Regents approved an ambitious set of capital investments at its Homecoming meeting today, including the construction of a new $70 million east-campus student housing and dining complex.
Former United States secretary of state and national security adviser Dr. Condoleezza Rice will join Baylor President Ken Starr at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Waco Hall to talk about her new book and discuss her time working in President George W. Bush’s administration.
Attending her first homecoming at only six-months old, Allison Deily, a 2006 Baylor alumna from Houston, has only missed two homecomings in her entire life. Quite like Allison, Boerne senior Martha Garrison first came to homecoming when she was three -months old. Their stories are different, but both revolve around family and a tradition that has seemed to become almost second nature to them.
Many Baylor alumni will have an opportunity to see new structural campus changes that have taken place over the past year for the first time this weekend.
Baylor honored 12 people Thursday for their commitment and effort to spreading Christian values in the world, presenting them with various Meritorious Awards following a Board of Regents dinner held at the Andings Exhibition Gallery in the Mayborn Museum.
Killing entire races of people, slaughtering men, women and children and showing no mercy: such topics don’t often make their way into the typical Bible bedtime story, but according to Dr. Philip Jenkins, these darker and often bloodier passages cannot be ignored.
