The window of Baylor University Chaplain Burt Burleson's office in the Bobo Spiritual Life Center looks over a campus intersection often busy with students on their way to class. In the nearly 18 ...

Rufus Burleson, the school’s second president ... narrow,” wrote Rountree in a 2021 note to the Baylor community. The work on campus memorials has ongoing backing from Baylor president ...

Steen Morris, a relative of Burleson’s, was arrested and charged ... Brann was abducted at gunpoint and driven to the Baylor campus for a lesson in humility. Beaten and threat­ened with worse ...

Founders Mall is a large outdoor space between several key buildings on campus. Other changes ... Civil War — fail to align with Baylor’s Christian commitment,” the commission reported. In summer 2022 ...

The school will also relocate a statue of former Baylor President Rufus Burleson from that space and place it in between two academic buildings on campus. “Our goal at the outset of this process ...

On July 13, Baylor officials removed the Rufus Burleson statue previously located at the front of The Quadrangle, following the lines of the Commission on Historic Campus Representation’s 2021 report.

The university released the Baylor Commission on Historic Campus Representation’s final ... the Confederacy or the institution of slavery. Burleson, who served as a Confederate Army chaplain ...

The school will also relocate a statue of former Baylor President Rufus Burleson from that space and place it in between two academic buildings on campus. "Our goal at the outset of this process ...