A statue of Rufus Burleson on the Burleson Quadrangle at Baylor. The university is renaming the quad and relocating the statue since the former university president was a slave owner. (Jordan ...

Workers have pulled a bronze statue of former Baylor University President Rufus Burleson from its original spot for a move to a less-prominent perch, one of the first tangible results of a report ...

WACO, Texas — The Baylor University Board of Regents voted Friday to rename a campus quadrangle and relocate a statue of a slave-owning former university president more than a year after a ...

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The Baylor Board of Regents approved a four-step plan to change the name of a campus quadrangle named after a slave-owning former university president and add more elements to provide a better ...

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