The growing Baylor Center for School Leadership has served teachers around the world in the five years since its founding through research, networking, events and more. Jon Eckert came to Baylor in 2019 as the Lynda and Robert Copple Endowed Chair for Christians in School Leadership.

Baylor Opera Theatre has spent the last year earning numerous national awards as they annually bring multiple opera performances to campus. This spring, Baylor Opera delivers Luisa Fernanda, their first opera entirely in Spanish.

Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business is celebrating 100 years of business education. Founded in 1923, it has since grown into one of the nation’s premier business schools—recognized in the top 12 percent nationally by U.S. News. In this Baylor Connections, Dean Sandeep Mazumder shares reflections from a milestone birthday: people and values over the last century that set the stage for present success, growth within the business school, and priorities that will guide Hankamer School of Business into its second centennial of service.

Baylor Alumni is Baylor’s official alumni engagement program, and facilitates numerous events, activities and volunteer opportunities across the nation to connect with the Baylor Family.

As 2023 draws to a close, President Livingstone looks back at an exciting year on campus and looks ahead to 2024.

Individuals with intellectual disabilities and disorders (IDD) have a friend in Alison Prahl, whose research uncovers pathways to literacy. Prahl, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders at Baylor, leads Baylor’s Language Impairment and Down Syndrome lab, and her work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Stephen Newby came to Baylor this summer as the inaugural Lev H. Prichard III Chair in the Study of Black Worship. Dr. Newby brings a background in music, scholarship and ministry to the position, which leads research and scholarship efforts associated with the growth of Baylor’s Black Gospel Music Preservation Program.

What are the connections between food, creation and faith? Jenny Howell serves as director of Baylor’s Theology, Ecology and Food Justice Program, which offers a holistic approach to educate students, ministers, leaders and more on the Church’s role in addressing food challenges.

Baylor’s Program for the Future Church is housed within the George W. Truett Theological Seminary. The program exists to convene professors and church and community leaders to listen, imagine, and pilot solutions for emerging changes facing the Church, with resources to connect stakeholders virtually and in-person.

Baylor students can access physicians, nurses, physical therapists, psychiatrists and more through the Baylor Health Center.