BU Selects First Female President George Washington University School of Business Dean, Professor Named 15Th Baylor President
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STAY CONNECTED >> Subscribe to the Morning Buzz : Get today’s top headlines in your inbox Baylor ‘13 Reasons Why’ Review: pg. 6 LariatWE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE APRIL 19, 2017 WEDNESDAY BAYLORLARIAT.COM BU selects first female president George Washington University School of Business dean, professor named 15th Baylor president KALYN STORY Staff Writer Baylor has announced Linda A. Livingstone as the university’s 15th president. Set to take office June 1, she will be the university’s first female president. She is currently the dean and professor Photo Courtesy of Baylor Media Communications at the George Washington University School of IN WITH THE NEW Baylor University has Business. selected Dr. Linda A. Livingstone, current dean Baylor Media reported in an email that and professor of management at the George Livingstone was the unanimous choice of the Washington University School of Business, as the Board of Regents and was recommended by the institution’s 15th president. Presidential Search Committee. Before she was at George Washington University, not seek out a women president in light of the recent she served as a dean of Pepperdine University’s sexual assault scandal but rather searched for the Graziadio School of Business and Management and best person for the job. He is confident Livingstone associate dean and associate professor in Baylor’s is the best selection. Hankamer School of Business. “This is not the first time in my career I have “I am humbled and honored to be selected as the been the first women to do something so I am certain 15th president of Baylor University,” Livingstone I can take that responsibility on,” Livingstone said. wrote in the email. “I chose to begin my academic “I am the right person regardless of what my gender career at Baylor in significant part because of is. I take [issues of sexual assault] very seriously, Baylor’s Christian mission. To return to Baylor to and they are important issues for every person in the partner with the exceptional faculty, staff, students community. At Baylor, we are going to do the right and administrators to fulfill the University’s vision thing, certainly according to the law but beyond to be a top-tier research institution, committed that, and provide a safe and healthy environment to excellence in all aspects of university life, for our students.” while strengthening the Christian mission is an In the conference, Livingstone was asked point opportunity I look forward to with enthusiasm.” blank if every student found guilty of sexual assault In a teleconference Tuesday afternoon, would be expelled, and Livingstone said issues of Livingstone said she is honored to return to Baylor sexual assault will be handled on a case-by-case and said Baylor’s faith and superb academics are basis. the reasons she started her academic career at Livingstone’s time at Pepperdine University Baylor in 1991. overlapped for almost six years with former Baylor “Baylor holds such a unique and significant President Ken Starr’s time as Dean of Pepperdine place in higher education, scholarship, academics, University’s School of Law. all while maintaining their Christian commitment,” When asked about new programs she would Livingstone said. “I am looking forward to the like to put in place, she said that before she decides future of Baylor, we have a tremendous opportunity anything she is going to do a lot of listening to and here. There is tremendous passion among the visiting with individuals on campus and across the Baylor family and I look forward to working with university community. the entire Baylor community.” “Foundationally and at the core of the university *1898: John C. Lattimore served as interim president Livingstone and Ronald Murff, chairman of *2005-06: William D. Underwood served as interim president is the desire to strengthen the Christian mission and *2008-10, 2016-17: David Garland served as interim president the Board of Regents, both acknowledged the academia and to ensure the safety and security of significance of Livingstone being Baylor’s first Source: Baylor.edu female president, but Murff said the committee did PRESIDENT >> Page 5 Liesje Powers | Photo Editor Organization hosts cross-cultural dinner JOY MOTON growing up in America as people of up in America. definitely helped me to embrace my strong part of who she is. Staff Writer African descent. She said that while other people culture and be proud of it,” Fondong She explained that she loves Alexandria, La., senior Mima live in large cities where there were said. attending traditional weddings, eating Students gathered in the Bobo Fondong, president of the African subcultures of people from Africa, Little Elm senior Serra John said her mother’s cooking, not having to Spiritual Life Center for a Cross- Student Association, is originally she lived in a small town where she she grew up in a very traditional speak English at home, dressing up Cultural Engagement dinner with from Cameroon and said it was hard only met one or two people from household. She said she had a tough in traditional clothes and seeing her the African Student Association on for her parents to understand what other countries. She tried to mask time finding a balance because it family. Tuesday evening. Students ate a she went through growing up in a her culture because she did not have took her a long time to learn English. “I absolutely love everything traditional Ethiopian dinner as a panel new country because although they anyone to relate to, she said. Having to learn to assimilate into the about my culture. When I go home I of three students from various parts had been young once, they did not “That was kind of hard, but being American lifestyle was difficult, but of Africa discussed their experiences experience the struggle of growing at Baylor and having subcultures here she said her culture has remained a DINNER >> Page 5 Seniors present >>WHAT’S INSIDE theses during opinion Baylor’s new president: Not only is she a woman, Honors Week but she’s the most qualified for the job.pg. 2 RYLEE SEAVERS opportunities provided to Staff Writer undergraduate students arts & life through the Honors College. The Honors College’s Throughout the week, Baylor, Lariat alumnus 25th annual J. Harry and Anna all graduating seniors in produces “A Very Sordid Jeanes Academic Honors the honors program will be Liesje Powers | Photo Editor Wedding.” pg. 6 Week is underway. During presenting thesis research MISCHIEF MANAGED Belton senior Melissa Rosario Montgomery shares her thesis on this week, undergraduate projects, said Dr. Thomas “Sociology Through Harry Potter” on Tuesday in 115 Alexander. students present thesis Hibbs, dean of the Honors research papers and attend a College. The honors thesis Hibbs said. These thesis with what they are doing and graduate students sports banquet. is an opportunity for students projects sometimes lead academically,” Hibbs said. to conduct independent Events began Tuesday Baseball wins 2-1 to in the Honors College to to internships, graduate Hibbs also said that the research. and will conclude Friday with Stephen F. Austin at home work intensively on one school admission and other mark of a successful research Dr. Albert Beck, the academic convocation. on Tuesday pg. 8 subject with the counsel of opportunities, Hibbs said. university is one that admissions and advisement Academic Honors Week a faculty member that has “It allows them to provides opportunities and is a recognition of the knowledge on the subject, connect their career goals encourages undergraduate HONOR >> Page 4 Vol.117 No. 98 © 2017 Baylor University Wednesday, April 19, 2017 2 The Baylor Lariat opinionbaylorlariat.com GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? We want to hear it. Send us your thoughts: [email protected] COLUMN EDITORIAL Cherish the Welcome, President Livingstone The state of Baylor’s moments presidential office has had its share of ups and downs recently, to say the least. From Starr’s firing to the with family; limbo of Interim President David Garland’s tenure — the position has been anything but stable. they won’t But finally, after months of deliberation, the board has been able to report some good news last forever to the Baylor family: They have found their 15th president of JESSICA BABB Baylor in Dr. Linda Livingstone. While there are plenty of Broadcast Managing Editor reasons to celebrate this new hire, one of the biggest pieces of news This time three years ago, I was a is that Livingstone is the first senior in high school, and I was just woman president in the history itching to leave the town I grew up in and of the university. There is reason begin a new adventure. It felt like college to be excited about this historic couldn’t come fast enough. Now that I am moment, but placing our focus on the other end of my college journey on her gender diminishes the and graduation is importance of her hiring. drawing closer, I Bringing excessive attention have realized how to the fact that she is a woman much harder it is to overshadows all of her leave home. accomplishments as an individual. I love adventure, She expressed this sentiment and my college years herself after the announcement of have been filled her presidency, saying, “I am the with it. I studied right person regardless of what my abroad in Italy; I gender is. I take [issues of sexual spent a semester in assault] very seriously, and they Joshua Kim|Cartoonist Washington, D.C., are important issues for every during the presidential election; I covered University and currently serves we hold to the belief that any We believe it is imperative that the person in the community.