Career Services Student Worker of the Month: Bailey Lindsey
By Marette Hahn GCU Career Services Bailey Lindsey (center) celebrates being named the April GCU Student Worker of the Month with her manager, Ricky Bezanson, and Thunder. The customary back-and-forth...
View ArticleAntelope Intros: Sonja Kassube and Charity Norman
Antelope Intros is a recurring GCU Today feature that introduces some of our new employees to the people around them in a way that is fun and informative. Employees are eligible to be featured in the...
View ArticleGCU bookstore is moving on to bigger and better things
By Rick Vacek GCU News Bureau The bookstore at Grand Canyon University soon will transition to a new location, a new name and whole new feel. In early May, the store will be closed in its current...
View ArticleJustice students prepare for life behind the badge
By Michael Ferraresi GCU News Bureau Jobs in criminal justice are seldom as they appear on TV. Law enforcement officers rarely spend their shifts kicking down doors or wrestling with suspects, and...
View ArticleGCU students help with HopeFest Phoenix
Grand Canyon University students helped sort clothing in advance of Saturday’s CityServe Arizona’s HopeFest Phoenix, then came to the event to hand out food boxes, entertain children and volunteer in...
View ArticleHow a marketing class impacted local companies
By Rick Vacek GCU News Bureau A marketing class at Grand Canyon University can provide more than the knowledge of how to successfully promote a business. You might develop new, lasting bonds. You might...
View ArticleCONHCP’s ‘most dedicated person’ retiring
Story by Janie Magruder Photos by Darryl Webb GCU News Bureau In 27 years at Grand Canyon University, Dr. Cheryl Roat has never done anything halfway. Her office door was wide open for students in the...
View ArticleBlessings abound for GCU alums Nicole and Brent Nedella
Story by Janie Magruder Photos by Darryl Webb GCU Today Magazine The Nedellas (from left), Jesse, Nicole and Brent, enjoy family time in the backyard of their Avondale, Ariz., home. Jesse Hannington...
View ArticleLopes baseball team aims for national prominence
Story by Michael Ferraresi Photos by Darryl Webb GCU News Bureau Players on Grand Canyon University’s baseball team recite their goal like a mantra that has been ingrained in their psyches. Never mind...
View ArticleUniversity expands tutoring to reach more students
By Janie Magruder GCU Today Magazine As a student at Canby High in northwestern Oregon, Bryce Beatty filled his days with chemistry, honors biology, advanced placement physics and playing shortstop for...
View ArticleGCU alums minister to needs of Ugandans during medical mission trip
GCU Today Magazine A group of health care professionals who studied together at Grand Canyon University before going to medical school traveled to western Uganda last year to bring medical care and...
View ArticleA year to remember: GCU’s Top 10 stories of 2014-15
GCU rolled out its longest purple carpet during Welcome Week in August 2014 when a record 6,200 students moved onto campus. This year was a time of growth for the University, in terms of people,...
View ArticleFlatz twins doubled their impact on performing arts
Story by Cooper Nelson Photos by Darryl Webb GCU Today Magazine Twin theatre majors Claire and Joy Flatz are identical in appearance, but their interests, personalities and individual contributions to...
View ArticleInitiative is a leap of faith and learning in classroom
By Rick Vacek GCU Today Magazine Microbiology is generally not the sort of class where you expect to hear a lot of prayer unless there’s a big exam coming up. But when Dr. Daisy Savarirajan introduced...
View ArticleDoctorate is one more way youth homes CEO fulfills lofty goals
By Rick Vacek GCU Today Magazine A day in the life of Tom Granado starts like a space launch — early and with a burst of energy that takes it to new heights. He and his wife, Wynn, get up at 4:30 a.m....
View ArticleExpansion will construct an even greater sense of community at GCU
Story by Rick Vacek Photos by Darryl Webb GCU Today Magazine Tim Griffin used to live right next to Disneyland, so close, he said, “I could have broken a window in the Disneyland Hotel. I could look...
View ArticleGCU Today Magazine previews new look for campus
The cover story in the latest edition of GCU Today Magazine is your guide to construction projects on campus this spring and summer. It includes details about new residence halls, dining options and...
View ArticlePoignant commencement filled with pomp and poetry
By GCU News Bureau Colorful mortarboards have become a GCU commencement tradition. (Photo by Darryl Webb) This morning’s commencement, the first of six to be held this week for the Grand Canyon...
View ArticleAntelope Intros: Liz Flanders and Erin McRae
Antelope Intros is a recurring GCU Today feature that introduces some of our new employees to the people around them in a way that is fun and informative. Employees are eligible to be featured in the...
View ArticleClouds can’t dampen sunny commencement moods
By GCU News Bureau There were plenty of diplomas awarded at this morning’s commencement for non-traditional students in the Colangelo College of Business and the College of Doctoral Studies in GCU...
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