“We are able to tell the truth about our history, where we come from, and where we might be going,” Garrett said. “And it feels to me like Professor Reddie coming this fall could be a really important piece of Baylor’s continuing to reckon with our slaveholding past with racism and with the idea of repair and how we might move forward together.”

“There’s just one race, the human race. And that race is multiple, diverse, varied and concrete, yet one,” Copeland said.

Following almost 10 hours of deliberation across two days, a federal jury awarded former Baylor student Dolores Lozano $270,000 for her negligence claims against the university. Although the jury found that Baylor had also committed Title IX violations, it didn’t award her any money for those claims.

Quinene joined Baylor from UT Health San Antonio’s Master of Physician Assistant Studies program, where she served as the Associate Professor and Academic Coordinator since 2015. Her experience and expertise spread far and wide as a licensed physician assistant with experience in various fields, including traumatic brain injury.

“Students that are here almost every day or multiple times a day, we recognize them. … The same as like the live-in faculty and live-in staff, we recognize all of them, we have most of their like box numbers memorized,” Rust said. “It’s just nice to see them get their stuff and eventually graduate.”