Baylor announced on Tuesday that the McLane Student Life Center (SLC) would open at 4 p.m. as an emergency warming location. The center will remain open throughout the night for off-campus residents that lack power, heat or water.
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Baylor has made the decision to cancel classes on Monday and Tuesday as the weather prevents students from going to campus as well as experiencing classroom instruction online.
Nursing students are serving the community and gaining experience outside the classroom through vaccine administration.
With continuous national recognition, Baylor’s entrepreneurship program plans to continue stretching the boundaries of success.
The statue of co-founder Robert Emmet Bledsoe Baylor sits at the heart of campus. Because of Judge Baylor’s connections to the Confederacy and slavery, daily sit-ins are being held continually in front of the statue to educate others and push for the statue’s removal.
“The last time in Waco that we got down into the single digits … in February was 1985.”
To encourage meeting new students, Baylor’s Black Student Union is hosting Live Music Fridays throughout the month of Feb. to acknowledge the influence music has within the Black community.
The annual university song and dance show, All-University Sing, is usually in full swing by this time of year. However, the late start to the semester and moratorium on campus events due to COVID-19 has put a roadblock in the usual schedule of events.
A Long Long Way Film Series will take place online this year instead of in Washington D.C., and Baylor students are encouraged to attend.
Because their role requires connecting with people, implementing a semi-virtual format has affected the way social work students carry out their internships.
Students who have gone into isolation through Baylor after testing positive explain what the experience is like.
Baylor plans multiple study abroad opportunities for summer 2021, while monitoring international Covid-19 restrictions and guidelines.
Baylor’s graduate programs are represented by “over 2,400 students in more than a hundred academic programs across the humanities, arts, and sciences.” These students, like undergraduate students, have been forced to earn their degrees in a different way than normal.
Several Baylor professors shared their experience making the jump from in-person to virtual teaching.
The Faculty Senate passed a resolution to support Gamma Alpha Upsilon’s goal to become an officially chartered student organization with 26 in favor, nine opposed and four abstained.
After hosting several online services, Vertical has announced it will resume in-person events on Feb. 15.
With February being Black History Month, future teachers in the Baylor School of Education prepare to teach Black history in their classrooms.
In reflection of the fall semester, Baylor predicts a return to normalcy by the summer.
Thanks to help from Baylor student witnesses, police officers were able to detain a suspect in an ongoing investigation shortly after an armed robbery Tuesday night.
Dr. Burt Burleson reflects on the student Chapel experience and what’s ahead.
Several Baylor alumnae have remain plugged in to the chapters to offer their services and advice to the active members.
Students, faculty and staff gathered Wednesday evening to listen to minority students speak about their experiences at Baylor. This sit-in was in response to BUPD being called on Black students studying in Moody Memorial Library.
While the pandemic has altered many activities on campus, serving and being a light are core points of the Baylor mission and the Missions and Public Life Department has found ways to keep that going on.
Online classes have led to more Baylor students having change-of-major conversations with advisors, expert suggests.
The BIC COVID Care Team supports BIC students with the challenges they experience related to COVID-19.
Premiering in the summer of 2020, the university offered classes at a discounted rate for current students, incoming freshmen and rising high school seniors. Looking at what they accomplished, students can get excited for their plans for summer 2021.
Black women’s stories have often been left out of history, but scholars are working to fill in the gaps and include them in American history even before colonization.
Students wishing to explore the finance workforce can connect with Baylor grads through the Investment & Advisory program.
Students held Black Lives Matter signs for a picture in front of the Judge Baylor statue to put pressure on Baylor to remove the statue from campus.
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