October 9, 2000

Baylor gets $2 million grant from Lilly
___WACO--Baylor University is one of 20 U.S. colleges and universities to receive grants of $1 million or more from the Lilly Endowment to begin or enhance programs that encourage young people to consider the ministry as a career or to consider faith commitments in whatever careers they choose.
___Baylor received a $2 million grant to establish a program called Baylor Horizons: An Exploration of Vocation for a Life of Service. The program will implement a comprehensive set of 13 projects, ranging from new-student orientation to internships in area churches.
___"Baylor was founded to be of service to church and state. Therefore, we at Baylor are grateful to the Lilly Endowment for the opportunity to be involved in their new initiative," said Michael Beaty, director of Baylor's Institute for Faith and Learning and principal investigator for the grant. "Our participation in this initiative gives all of us at Baylor the opportunity to take part in activities that reaffirm, deepen and expand Baylor's historic efforts to help our students see all of their lives as a vocation, a calling."
___Nationwide, the Lilly Endowment awarded 20 grants totaling nearly $40 million. The endowment's board of directors also approved a $50 million commitment for a second round of grants in this competitive initiative for church-related schools.
___"The caliber of proposals we received in this initiative was absolutely outstanding," said Craig Dykstra, vice president for religion at the Indianapolis-based foundation. "It is clear to us that these schools have thought deeply and productively about this issue of encouraging young people to consider questions of faith and commitment when they choose their careers."

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