Around the State: UMHB students participate in Global Outreach

Seven University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Global Outreach teams served domestically and abroad this summer to spread the gospel and provide vital services to populations in need. More than 50 students participated in Global Outreach, including three teams that conducted medical missions in Belize, Kenya and the Dominican Republic. Teams also delivered supplies in the mountains of Nepal, worked with safe homes in Spain, and ministered to youth in Montana and Alaska. Tiffany Horton is director of Global Outreach at UMHB.

Baylor University appointed civil rights historian Felipe Hinojosa as the inaugural Jackson Family Chair for Baylor in Latin America, expanding Baylor’s international footprint and providing additional leadership to advance the priorities of the Baylor in Latin America initiative. Hinojosa comes to Baylor from Texas A&M University, where he serves as professor of history, assistant provost for Hispanic Serving Institution initiatives and director for the Carlos H. Cantu Hispanic Education & Opportunity Endowment. His appointment as the Jackson Family Chair is effective Aug. 1. Born and raised in Brownsville, Hinojosa earned an undergraduate degree in English from Fresno Pacific University, a master’s degree in history from the University of Texas Pan American and his Ph.D. from the University of Houston in 2009. He joined the faculty at Texas A&M in 2009. The Jackson Family Chair was established through a $1.5 million gift fromJohn and Nancy Jackson as part of Baylor’s Give Light Campaign’s Foster Academic Challenge matching grant program.

Researchers in Baylor University’s Diana R. Garland School of Social Work have been awarded a significant federal grant to bolster mental health services to school children by preparing licensed mental health providers for work in schools. The Department of Education awarded the project, Partnering for Heart of Texas Mental Health, more than $2.5 million in funding over a five-year period. The funds provide for internship positions, training and certificate program development and Spanish-language training. Carrie Arroyo, senior lecturer of social work at Baylor, serves as the project’s principal investigator and is joined on the grant by Mary Zane Nelson, co-principal investigator and project director, and Stephanie Boddie, project evaluator and associate professor of church and community ministries.