Baylor and Silliman: Historical and Academic Comparison of Two Christian Universities

Abstract

Employing historical and comparative approaches, this paper describes how Christian commitment has inspired Baylor University
and Silliman University in establishing quality higher education institutions that have surpassed the test of time and continued to
develop academic and community programs that bear and transmit Christian values and ideals to students amidst the secularization of higher education in the world. Informed by their vision and mission, both institutions demonstrated efforts in promoting faith-learning integration and at the same time ensuring quality education at par with other universities in the US and the Philippines, respectively. Certainly, the younger Silliman still has something to learn from Baylor although it has its own ways of integrating faith and learning and in improving the quality and scholarships of its faculty an students, evident in the recognition it received in recent years.