Sep 28, 2017 | College Tips, Higher Education
Houston Baptist University serves more than 1,000 graduate students – both master’s and doctoral students. Graduate students experience a new set of challenges and questions, smaller classes, more specific programs, and a higher academic standard than undergraduate...
Sep 20, 2017 | College Tips, Higher Education
Students often come to college with preconceived notions about student organizations. Movies don’t do a great job of showing how these organizations work, and – more often than not – students have unrealistic expectations about how much time they will have...
Sep 14, 2017 | College Tips, Higher Education
At Houston Baptist University, we have quite a few students who are also working parents. It can be daunting for a parent returning to school to enter a classroom of traditional college students. While they are living on campus, attending sporting events, joining...
Sep 12, 2017 | College Tips, Higher Education
Houston Baptist University competes in NCAA Division 1 athletics. Though sports are important to University life, they are not the primary purpose of the University, and ultimately student-athletes are students first. Our student-athletes strive to excel both...
Sep 5, 2017 | College Tips, Higher Education
Fall semester classes at Houston Baptist University began this week. I asked faculty and staff if they had any pointers to give at the start of the year pertaining to classroom etiquette and courtesies. Dr. Curtis Henderson’s advice on the topic sums the answers...
Aug 22, 2017 | College Tips, Higher Education
This year’s incoming freshmen, the HBU Class of 2022, will move into the dorms this Thursday. In preparation for their arrival, I asked several faculty members and staff at Houston Baptist University to provide some tips for success in the first year of college....
Aug 2, 2017 | HBU Faith & College Series, Higher Education
Our series of blogs regarding a Christian university has touched on the various colleges and schools of HBU and how each of them fits within the larger Christian worldview that we affirm in our mission and vision statements, and indeed in the Preamble to the letters...
Jul 11, 2017 | HBU Faith & College Series, Higher Education
“All truth is God’s truth” is an expression commonly used by Christian colleges and universities to express our commitment to the discovery, synthesis, teaching, and publication of all that can possibly be known. We believe it is important for...
Jun 27, 2017 | HBU Faith & College Series, Higher Education, Theology
In this Faith & College blog series, I have been exploring the various colleges and schools of Houston Baptist University and thinking about how each of them reflects a Christian worldview. In some ways this task should be easy with regard to the School of...
Jun 14, 2017 | HBU Faith & College Series, Higher Education
How does a Christian worldview – understood particularly with respect to the overarching story of Scripture – inform and help us implement the various kinds of academic tasks we undertake as a university? Today’s blog in the Faith and College blog series relates...
