News & Politics
March 28, 2024
A Baylor Scientist Transforms Education for the Blind
Inspired in part by his son, Bryan Shaw is leading a team that's reenvisioning the college chemistry lab.
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Sports
October 25, 2023
A Jury Found Baylor Liable for Failing to Prevent Violence Against a Student
The woman who reported being physically abused in 2014 was awarded $270,000 in damages.
Sports
October 20, 2023
The Most Puzzling Moments From Art Briles’s Testimony in the Baylor Title IX Lawsuit
The former head football coach was called to testify on Thursday—and made some surprising assertions.
News & Politics
April 27, 2022
Baylor Grants First Charter to LGBTQ Student Group
The group’s copresident calls the move “baby steps” for the 175-year-old Baptist university.
Texas History
June 22, 2021
A Pioneering Black Singer’s Compositions, Long Forgotten, May Finally Have an Audience
Waco-born baritone Jules Bledsoe starred on Broadway and toured Europe, but his original opera and other works languish in obscurity. A Baylor professor hopes to change that.
Sports
December 30, 2020
The Best and Worst Things in Texas College Football This Season
From Tom Herman to Houston Baptist to the Rose Bowl in North Texas, here's everything that made the 2020 season surprising and ridiculous.
News & Politics
September 16, 2020
On Texas Campuses, Student-Run Newspapers Have Become Crucial Sources of Coronavirus News
Front pages once filled with stories about football games and student politics are now dedicated to tracking the latest test results, reporting on breaches of social distancing guidelines, and pressing university administrators for more transparency.
Art
December 23, 2019
“What Were You Wearing?”: A Roving Campus Art Exhibit Addresses Misconceptions About Sexual Assault
The show has traveled to the likes of Texas A&M, Baylor, and Texas Tech.
Art
August 13, 2018
At Baylor, a Sexual Assault Exhibit Opens the Door to Constructive Conversations
The campus chapter of It’s On Us brought awareness to its community by displaying the clothing that survivors were wearing when assaulted.
Sports
March 23, 2017
‘Disgraced’: The Story of the Other Baylor Scandal
What a 2003 basketball scandal can tell us about sports culture at Baylor.
Sports
May 26, 2016
Changes at Baylor
The 171-year-old university fired its football coach and demoted its famous President today. Will that be enough?
Sports
September 17, 2015
Path to Justice
Baylor, bared.
Sports
August 20, 2015
Silence at Baylor
A much-talked-about football player at Baylor University—whom coaches “expect back” this fall—is currently on trial for the sexual assault of a fellow student. Questions now swirl around what the program knew and when they knew it.
The Daily Post
August 18, 2015
What’s Changed Since Baylor’s Viral Sorority Recruitment Video?
As the University of Alabama’s Alpha Phi chapter faces blowback, we remember a different school's sorority recruitment video.
The Daily Post
July 8, 2015
Baylor Drops Ban on ‘Homosexual Acts,’ But Does That Actually Change Anything?
It’s a great step, but what it amounts to in practice isn’t quite clear.
Politics & Policy
April 10, 2015
A Seat at the Table
Mimi Swartz wonders why, in this day and age, there are so few Hispanics serving on the boards of Texas nonprofits.
The Daily Post
December 8, 2014
Why Aren’t TCU and Baylor in the College Football Playoff?
Texas teams—and the Big 12—aren’t going to be competing for a National Championship.
January 21, 2013
Princeton Review Labels Three Texas Universities as LGBT-Unfriendly
In the latest Princeton Review ranking, three Texas institutions of higher learning made the list of schools most "LGBT-unfriendly."
News & Politics
January 21, 2013
Rick Perry and Mark Cuban Are Both More Popular than Jerry Jones
But Tim Tebow is more popular than all of them. Public Policy Polling released the last part of its January Texas voter survey.
Sports
January 21, 2013
The Heisman May Be Coming Back to Texas
The prediction polls are saying that Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III will win the Heisman Trophy on Saturday.
Object Lesson
January 20, 2013
Ken Starr’s Study
The Baylor University president shows us his refuge.
Reporter
April 30, 1999
Unbearable
Baylor University gets sued by one of its own.
November 1, 1991
The War for Thee University
Pray for Baylor. The Baptists are calling each other flat-earthers and liberal parasites, and the school they call Jerusalem on the Brazos is caught in the middle.