Cultivating Human Flourishing

Baylor’s role as an unambiguously Christian institution of higher education calls us to engage in research and dialogue about factors that shape and nurture the human condition. Humans reach their fullest potential when they develop across multiple dimensions and are nourished physically, spiritually, emotionally, professionally, environmentally and through the acquisition of knowledge and understanding. These Baylor scholars, whose works cross a range of disciplines, join together to explore the crossroads of human flourishing. Symposium participants:

• Linda A. Livingstone, Ph.D., President, Baylor University
• Michael K. McLendon, Ph.D., Interim Provost and Hale Endowed Professor in Higher Education Leadership and Policy

Faculty Scholars

• Dawn S. Carlson, Ph.D., The H.R. Gibson Chair of Management Development, Hankamer School of Business
• Beverly Roberts Gaventa, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Religion, College of Arts & Sciences
• Byron Johnson, Ph.D, Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences and founding director of the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion
• Dwayne Simmons, Ph.D., The Cornelia Marschall Smith Endowed Professor and chair of the department of biology, College of Arts & Sciences