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Asking QuestionsLine's editorial plans revolve around exploring core values
Todd Copeland, Editor, Baylor Line
As an institution of higher education, Baylor University is a place
where serious questions are not only welcomed--they are strongly
encouraged. From classrooms and faculty offices to residence halls
across campus, questions of meaning, mission, truth, and, yes, love are
daily posed, entertained, and answered.
 Granted, some of the answers are provisional. Perhaps some questions
are ultimately unanswerable. But we still keep seeking. You could say
that questions are Baylor's lifeblood. Without them, the process of
education would weaken and ultimately fail. The body would die.
As an organization that embodies Baylor, the Baylor Alumni Association
is also a place of questioning and inquiry--a forum where the voices of
the Baylor family interact, sometimes blending together and other times
simply agreeing to disagree.
The places where this conversation has most often--and, perhaps, most visibly--taken place has been the Baylor Line magazine, published by the Baylor Alumni Association since 1946, and the BAA's monthly online newsletter, Between the Lines.
We also recently expanded the scope of this conversation by adding a
blog and a message board to our now-independently hosted website at bayloralumni.com.
The Baylor Alumni Association believes that one of the best ways to
keep you connected to Baylor is to keep you fully informed and engaged
in conversation. With these online tools and an ongoing commitment to
candid reporting in the Line,
the Baylor Alumni Association is striving to enhance the Baylor
family's ability to join in a celebration of our alma mater's
achievements as well as an exploration of the significant issues facing
Baylor.
Last December, we published a special issue of the Line
featuring the phrase "What We Believe" on the cover. That issue carried
a presentation of the Baylor Alumni Association's core values, and in
doing so it laid the foundation for several issues of the magazine. In
essence, it set the stage for the in-depth exploration of a number of
big questions facing Baylor and the Baylor family.
We started building on that foundation a few months ago, when the spring issue of the Line carried a cover story
on the rising price of higher education. That story was based on the
BAA's core value, "We believe in keeping a Baylor education accessible
for the leaders of tomorrow."
From the question, "Why is college so expensive?" we now turn to two
more questions in this issue--questions that are big and bold on the
cover. These questions arise from the BAA's core value, "We believe in
the strength of a community based on transparency, open communication,
shared governance, and the free marketplace of ideas."
As the editor of the Baylor Line,
I hope you will find these two feature stories to be informative and
constructive. I also hope you will let us know what you think about
these stories, and the role that the Baylor Alumni Association plays in
the life of our alma mater, by sending an e-mail to us at baylorline@bayloralumni.com. We welcome your voices and perspectives.
As an employee of the Baylor Alumni Association, I hope you will
continue to demonstrate your support as an annual member--or as a life
member who also chooses to provide an annual gift--so that we can
continue providing such services as this magazine to our membership and
the Baylor community.
Each member really is important to the strength of this organization,
and membership revenue directly underwrites the costs of publishing the
Line.
Finally, as a fellow Baylor grad, I hope you will continue to keep Baylor University in your thoughts, prayers, and plans.
By staying involved and being a notable presence on campus and at
university-related events around the state and beyond, we can keep
"that good old Baylor line" standing strong in support of the oldest
institution of higher learning in Texas.
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