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President Ken Starr
“With its great tradition in the Christian world and its growing international reputation as a research university that continues to care deeply about undergraduate education, Baylor is poised to have an increasingly expanding global impact.”
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President Starr in the News

President Starr In The News
6/10/2013
June 9, 2013
An historic $35 million gift from Baylor alumnus Paul L. Foster, BBA '79, of El Paso, will support the construction of both a new campus for Baylor's business school and the new on-campus football stadium. Foster and Baylor President Ken Starr are quoted in the article.
President Starr In The News
6/6/2013
May 30, 2013
An historic $35 million gift from Baylor alumnus Paul L. Foster, BBA '79, of El Paso, will support the University's campaign to construct the new Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation, which will house Baylor's Hankamer School of Business. Foster's gift also will support Baylor Stadium. Foster and Baylor President Ken Starr are quoted in the article.
President Starr In The News
6/6/2013
May 29, 2013
Gen. William K. Suter, who is retiring after 22 years as clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court, named Baylor President Ken Starr as one of the four former U.S. Solicitors General on his list of the most impressive lawyers to have argued before the Court.
President Starr In The News
6/5/2013
June 5, 2013
An historic $35 million gift from Baylor alumnus Paul L. Foster, BBA '79, of El Paso, will support the University's campaign to construct the new Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation, which will house Baylor's Hankamer School of Business. Foster's gift also will support Baylor Stadium. Foster, Baylor President Ken Starr and Board of Regents Chair Richard Willis are quoted in the article.

President Starr's Messages

President Starr's Messages
6/10/2013
Today, allow me to share the good news of another important milestone for Baylor Nation -- an historic agreement between the leadership of Baylor University and the leadership of the independent Baylor Alumni Association. We have come together and agreed to fashion a single, comprehensive, university-based alumni engagement program.
President Starr's Messages
5/18/2013
We are in a time and place of remembrance. We chose to be adorned in the centuries-old custom of cap and gown. Efficiency and cost-cutting experts might well advise: "Just send the diploma via email. Why all this pomp and circumstance? It's a lot of trouble to be here." But we do so because of one word: tradition.
Featuring President Starr, President Starr's Messages
4/30/2013
The tragic events in the nearby town of West, Texas have deeply impacted and saddened the Baylor community. At the same time, they have called forth a powerful demonstration of the Christian mission and character of this great University. Through acts of service, sacrifice and generosity, the Baylor family both near and far have responded actively and compassionately to this terrible tragedy. As a result, we have demonstrated to our neighbors in West, and to the nation, the very essence of Baylor University.
Featuring President Starr, President Starr's Messages
4/18/2013
Baylor President Ken Starr reaches out to Baylor Nation about the tragic events in West, Texas, only 17 miles from the Baylor campus. The University community continues to be in prayer for West and for the members of our own Baylor family whose lives have been disrupted by this disaster so suddenly. However, on Diadeloso, a day of tradition for our University, Baylor Nation is choosing to embody an even greater tradition -- that inspired by Christ Jesus to be energetically in service to the needy.

Featuring President Starr

Featuring President Starr
6/4/2013
WACO, Texas (June 4, 2013) - Baylor University announced today that the University has received a $35 million gift from Paul L. Foster, BBA '79, of El Paso, which represents the largest gift from a living alumnus in Baylor's history. Foster's gift will support the University's $100 million campaign to construct a new 275,000-square foot facility - to be named the Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation - which will house Baylor's Hankamer School of Business. His gift also will support Baylor Stadium - the University's football stadium currently under construction on campus - at the Founders level.
Featuring President Starr
5/17/2013
WACO, Texas (May 17, 2013) - At their spring meeting today, the Baylor University Board of Regents approved construction of phase one of a new on-campus track and field stadium and voted to move forward in developing the design for the proposed new School of Business building.
Featuring President Starr
5/7/2013
WACO, Texas (May 7, 2013) - With a backdrop of Baylor Stadium rising above the banks of the Brazos River, Baylor University today celebrated significant progress in both fundraising - at $100 million in private support - and construction on the University's $250 million on-campus football stadium which is slated to open in fall 2014.
Featuring President Starr
5/7/2013
As the spring semester winds to a close, over the past two weeks Baylor University has celebrated the success of not one — but two — $100 million fundraising programs, thanks to the faithful and generous support of Baylor Nation who stepped forward with gifts of all sizes to bring Baylor Stadium and the President’s Scholarship Initiative to reality.

President Op-Eds

President Starr In The News, Presidential Op-Eds
4/15/2013
April 14, 2013
Op-ed by Baylor President Ken Starr about improving civic education in our country and how Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's iCivics program has provided an outstanding example of a vibrant, curriculum-driven strategy to engage today's young people in the active practice of democracy. iCivics is now a cornerstone of the flourishing partnership between Baylor's School of Education, the Baylor Law School and the Waco and Midway Independent School Districts.
President Starr In The News, Presidential Op-Eds
3/5/2013
The immigration debate is now in full swing. Historically, the president's State of the Union address sets out his policy agenda; the party in opposition is given an opportunity to respond; pundits then weigh in on whether the president can achieve his goals. As debates are unfolding in Congress, one thing is clear: Partisan wrangling of the past several sessions may actually subside on this vitally important set of issues.
President Starr In The News, Presidential Op-Eds
9/17/2012
Sept. 17, 2012
On Constitution Day, Baylor President Ken Starr authors a guest column about the history of the U.S. Constitution and how our nation's founding document has stood the test of time.
Presidential Op-Eds, President Starr In The News
8/18/2012
Chron.com: (Aug. 17, 2012) The end of summer marks the launch of the new school year, including the arrival - or return - of 1.5 million students studying at Texas' 146 institutions of higher learning. This is a time of opportunity and promise, but also of pressing challenges for higher education, both in Texas and beyond.