Provost Search
Baylor University seeks a visionary, forward-thinking, and deeply mission-centered academic leader to serve as its next Provost. The Provost will be called to steward Baylor’s distinctive mission while boldly envisioning Baylor’s future. Baylor calls for a leader to help shape an academic environment that is innovative and entrepreneurial, deeply committed to teaching and research excellence, responsive to society’s most pressing challenges, and unwavering in its commitment to educating men and women for worldwide leadership and service.
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More NewsI am pleased to announce the members of the Baylor Provost Search Advisory Committee, which is charged with identifying candidates to serve as the University’s next chief academic officer.
The Fulbright Program today recognized Baylor University as one of the nation’s elite top 10 producers of students and recent alumni selected for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Only a relative handful of schools nationwide rank among U.S. News‘ top 40 for both undergraduate teaching and undergraduate research. That short list is filled with schools like Duke, Michigan, Princeton, Stanford, Yale — and Baylor.
For the seventh straight year, U.S. News‘ rankings placed Baylor right alongside such prestigious peers, as BU was ranked No. 27 nationally for undergraduate teaching and No. 40 for undergraduate research/creative projects. No other Big 12 schools (and only one other Texas school: Rice) made the top 40 in both categories.
Baylor is well-represented with 44 faculty on a prestigious list of the world's top 2% most-cited researchers.