John Lilley, president of Baylor University, has been fired for failing to "bring the Baylor family together," says Howard Batson, chair of the university's board of regents. The regents voted July 24 to remove Lilley from office, effective immediately, during their summer meeting in Grapevine, near the Dallas-Fort Worth...
HAVOC Distribution Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of American Enterprise Development Corporation (PINKSHEETS: AEND), announced today that it is following up last week's release relating to the new University of Illinois Energy Drink, "Powered by HAVOC," with an agreement with Baylor University in Waco, Texas. "Baylor's Gold Rush...
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings assigns a rating of 'AA-/F1+' to the Waco Education Finance Corporation revenue refunding bonds, Baylor University issue tax-exempt variable rate demand bonds, series 2008, consisting of: --$79,550,000 series 2008A; and --$79,550,000 series 2008B. The proceeds of the bonds, along with the fixed...
The Society of Professional Journalists is pleased to announce the Mark of Excellence Award winners from Okla. and Texas for the 2007 calendar year. This year, collegiate journalists submitted more than 3,400 entries in 39 categories across SPJ's 12 regions. The honorees were awarded certificates on March 29 during...
The Life of Pat Neff: The Land, The Law and The Lord. By Dorothy Blodgett, Terrell Blodgett, and David L. Scott. Austin, TX: Home Place Publishers, 2007. 383 pp. My older brother, Harry, and his wife Nelda, both graduated from Baylor University a decade before I did. I remember...
By Bill Blankenship THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL With firing cannons and ringing chimes, "The 1812 Overture" might have been the most bombastic work Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky wrote, but it wasn't his most beloved. That title belongs to the Russian composer's "Serenade for Strings," which the Washburn...
NEW YORK -- Fitch assigns a rating of 'AA-' to approximately $45.58 million of Waco Education Finance Corporation select auction variable rate securities the bonds series 2002B issued on behalf of Baylor University Baylor. The bonds, which are an unsecured general obligation of Baylor, sold via negotiation in May 2002...
DONE GOT JESUS: Baylor University professor Ralph C. Wood, who grew up in east Texas, says that when he was a college student, a Baptist evangelist, after learning that Wood was an English major, asked, "Why do you need Shakespeare and them boys when you done got Jesus?" Wood says...
Francis Beckwith is a professor of philosophy and church-state studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. A story in Friday's Deseret Morning News incorrectly referred to the university.
NewMarket Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: NMKT) and NewMarket China, Inc. (OTCBB: NMCH) today announced that Dr. Larry Xianghong Wu has been invited to present at Baylor University's upcoming "China in the World Economy" Global Business Forum scheduled for February 25-29, 2008. Dr. Wu currently serves as Vice President of Chinese Business...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Lori Fogleman, Director of Media Communications of Baylor University, Office: +1-254-710-6275, Cell: +1-254-709-5959, Lori_Scott-Fogleman@baylor.edu; or Jerry Derloshon, Director of Public Relations and News of Pepperdine University, Office: +1-310- 506-6485, Cell: +1-949-510-5455, jerry.derloshon@pepperdine.edu WACO, Texas, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Baylor University has named Dr. Stephen D....
By 1900, however, that number had risen to over five thousand. (1) These numbers support the claim that Protestants produced a veritable explosion of missionary activity by 1900. Effective methods of recruiting were absolutely essential to the success of the modern foreign missionary enterprise. In 1901, John R. Mott...
Agreement Includes Assistance for Purchasing Renewable Energy Credits That Promote the Development of Alternative Energy Solutions PHILADELPHIA -- ARAMARK Corporation, a world leader in providing professional services, today announced a national partnership with Amerex Energy Services to provide clients with an array of energy services, including the purchase of...
SANTA CLARA -- Mike Singletary will remain the 49ers assistant head coach and linebackers coach after withdrawing from consideration for the head coaching vacancy at his alma mater, Baylor University. Singletary said Thursday a couple of sticking points surfaced during his talks earlier this week with Baylor...
SANTA CLARA -- With coach Mike Nolan away for family reasons, assistant head coach Mike Singletary ran 49ers practice Friday. The 49ers provided no reason for Nolan's absence, but it is known that his father, Dick Nolan, 75, is in deteriorating health because of Alzheimer's disease and...
To: SCIENCE EDITORSContact: Anika Smith of Discovery Institute, +1-206-292-0401, ext. 155, asmith@discovery.org WACO, Texas, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Baylor University has proven yet again that academic freedom has been thrown off campus and academic persecution is now the norm," said Discovery Institute's Casey Luskin in reaction to Baylor University's deletion...
More than 1,300 family and friends filled First Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, May 30 to bid farewell to Herb Reynolds, the president of Baylor University from 1981 to 1995. He founded the university's George W. Truett Theological Seminary, and his administration changed the campus charter to prevent conservative Baptist...
To: BUSINESS EDITORSContact: C.J. Jackson, +1-254-710-7628, Cynthia_Jackson@baylor.eduWACO, Texas, June 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business has again embarked on its annual search for the best family businesses in the great state of Texas. "Baylor University and the Entrepreneurship Center consider it a privilege to honor family-owned firms...
A Baylor University scholar serving this year as president of the Evangelical Theological Society shocked colleagues by returning to the Catholic faith of his youth and college years. Francis Beekwith, associate professor of church-state studies at Baylor, announced last month on his Internet blog that he was resigning as...
DALLAS AP -- The head of the Evangelical Theological Society has returned to the Roman Catholic Church and, as a result, has stepped down from his post with the evangelical group. Francis J. Beckwith, associate professor of church-state studies at Baylor University, said his resignation as president and...
