The Center for International Education is sponsoring events this week promoting Baylor’s avenues for international education as part of a larger, national effort.

International Education Week, a joint partnership with the U.S. State Department and the Department of Education, is a week to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide.

The event’s theme this year is “Striving for a Healthier Future Worldwide” but Center for International Education director Randy Penson said the federal departments have very little influence over the local Baylor event and the theme does not apply.

The philanthropic arm of shipping giant UPS said it will no longer give money to the Boy Scouts of America as long as the group discriminates against gays, the second major corporation to recently strip funding from the scouts.

The No. 18 Baylor men’s basketball team is set to head to South Carolina to play in the Charleston Classic Thursday-Sunday.

The Bears have won their first two games against Lehigh and Jackson State in pretty convincing fashion.

Lehigh was Baylor’s first victim that fell 99-77. There is a lot of buzz surrounding Lehigh’s team this season.

The defending national champions and No. 1 Baylor Lady Bears are 1-3 when playing in the State Farm Tip-Off Classic.

The Lady Bears will unveil a trio of banners: the Big 12 season championhip, the Big 12 tournament championship and the national championship.