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Coordinates: 31°33′1″N 97°6′49″W 31.55028, -97.11361

Baylor University

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    • Waco, Texas, United States of America
  • Telephone Numbers: 1-800-BAYLOR-U
  • Official Website: [1]
• History & Memorable Moments

In 1841, the delegates to the Union Baptist Association meeting, accepting the recommendation of the Reverend William Milton Tryon and Judge R.E.B. Baylor (the latter of whom the school would ultimately be the namesake of), agreed to establish a Baptist university in the Republic of Texas. A petition was presented to the republic's Congress in 1844. The university was chartered in 1845 under Republic President Anson Jones and opened at Independence, Texas, as an all-male institution. Baylor's first fulltime fundraiser, Reverend James Huckins, the first Baptist missionary to Texas, is recognized by the university as the third founding father of Baylor. ^[1]

Six years later, Baylor's second president Rufus Burleson decided to separate the men from the women, and thus the Baylor Female College branched off from the main university, while Baylor University became an all-male institution. The city of Independence began suffering a decline because of the rise of neighboring cities serviced by the Santa Fe Railroad. Beginning in 1885, Baylor University moved to Waco and merged with Waco University, where Baylor's former second president Rufus Burleson was serving as president. That same year, the Baylor Female College moved to Belton, Texas and would later become known as the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. A Baylor College Park still exists in Independence as a memory of the bygone era. Around 1887, Baylor University began readmitting women, becoming a coeducational institution once again. The university was desegregated in 1964. ^[1]

During the American Civil War, the Baylor president was George Washington Baines, maternal great-grandfather of future U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Baines was also later a trustee of Mary Hardin-Baylor. ^[1]

In 1900, three physicians founded the "University of Dallas Medical Department", in Dallas, despite the fact that a "University of Dallas" did not exist. In 1903, it was acquired by Baylor University and became known as the Baylor College of Medicine, remaining in Dallas. In 1943, Dallas civic leaders wanted to build larger facilities for the university in a new medical center, but only if the College of Medicine would surrender its denominational alliances with the General Baptist Convention. Baylor refused, and with funding from the M. D. Anderson Foundation and others, the College of Medicine moved to Houston. In 1969, the Baylor College of Medicine became independent from Baylor University. However, Baylor University and Baylor College of Medicine have entered into an agreement through the Baylor2 program that provides five Baylor undergraduates with an acceptance into Baylor College of Medicine. Additionally, Baylor University President and CEO John M. Lilley is a member of the Baylor College of Medicine Board of Trustees. ^[1]

Amidst concerns of a potential conservative takeover, the university changed the terms of its charter in 1991 with the permission of the Texas legislature in order to establish a governance less directly dependent upon the Baptist General Convention of Texas. The Baptist General Convention of Texas continues to elect one-quarter of the members of the university's Board of Regents, Baylor's governing board. ^[1]

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