Tips for Being a Successful College Freshman
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....
Faith & College: The Purpose of Art
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...
Faith & College: The Honors College
"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...
Faith & College: Christian Thought is Relevant
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...
Faith & College: Mental Health in Scripture
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 to...
Faith & College: Jesus was a Teacher
The School of Education within the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences (CoEBS) at HBU teaches, researches, and models those activities that not only imitate, but even implement a Christian and biblical worldview. Story of the Bible The story of Scripture is...
Faith & College: Healing Professions
Our School of Nursing and Allied Health at HBU does its work of teaching, research, and clinical training in relationship to the healing professions. And it does so within the framework of our Christian mission. Christian Worldview This recent series of blogs has been...
Faith & College: Business & Decisions
The Archie W. Dunham College of Business at HBU has been widely recognized for its excellence – an excellence that comes from the product of our students, the quality of our faculty, the breadth of our programs, and the reputation of the Dunham name. Business, Virtue,...
Faith & College: Why Science & Math?
Science and mathematics are longtime academic disciplines of higher education. In a Christian university, however, tradition is not our only reason for retaining and expanding these exacting disciplines. The College of Science and Mathematics at HBU is a living...