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By Lisa Asher Adding to a long list of honors, Dr. William (Bill) Hillis was named the 2010 Collins Outstanding Professor Award, an annual honor given by Baylor seniors. A 1953 Baylor graduate, Hillis is currently Baylor’s Cornelia Marschall Smith Distinguished Professor of Biology. Hillis received the Baylor Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998 […]
The 2010 Herbert H. Reynolds Retired Faculty and Administrators Award was presented to recipients on Saturday, May 8, at a luncheon held in the Cashion Building of the Hankamer School of Business. The award is presented each spring at a luncheon co-sponsored by the alumni association and the Retired Faculty and Administrators Program. With the […]
The Baylor family is mourning the loss of Master Teacher and longtime Baylor history professor Robert Reid, MA ’47,who died April 8 at the age of eighty-eight. Reid taught at Baylor for forty-five years, retiring from full-time teaching in 1992. He served as chair of the history department from 1977-92. He also was a longtime […]
By Meg Cullar Photograph by Danny Turner In fourteen years at the Baylor Line, I have to count the legendary Paul Baker (pictured in 2001) as one of the most interesting people I have ever interviewed. Of course, I was well aware of his history with the university and the controversy surrounding his departure when […]
By Dr. Lynn Tatum, senior lecturer in Baylor’s Honors College All great universities are built upon two great ideas. The first and most famous is academic freedom. The second is not as well known, but is no less important: shared governance. Academic freedom, the right to pursue truth wherever it leads, is only possible in […]
Matthew C. Cordon Director of Legal Research, Associate Director of the Law Library, and Professor of Law Chair, Baylor University Faculty Senate, 2007-08 Recent news stories about the denial of tenure to a high percentage of Baylor University faculty members have to some degree renewed discussion about the place and importance of tenure in university […]
