GCU TODAY • 17
REVIEW
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Speech and Debate
The Speech and Debate Team
ranks in the top 25 in two different
categories, wins its third straight
Division III title in the Christian College
Forensic Invitational and is chosen to
host the event next year.
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Nonprofit effort ends
Grand Canyon Education, Inc.
(NASDAQ: LOPE) announces
that it is terminating its current effort to
convert Grand CanyonUniversity to a
nonprofit entity after the Higher Learning
Commission denies the request.
2015-16
HONORABLEMENTION:
GCU freezes tuition for the eighth
straight year, President Brian
Mueller is voted Businessperson
of Year by the Phoenix Business
Journal, the GCU Foundation Run to
Fight Children’s Cancer attracts thousands
of runners and cancer survivors, students
and staff continue to bring their passion
to mission trips around the world and
community outings close to home, and the
University is again the home for significant
events such as Forensic Science Day.
Signs of GCU growth and community
involvement were everywhere, from
numerous construction projects (left) to the
Habitat for Humanity initiative (above), the
continuing rise in the campus population
(right) and the successful renovation
and opening of Grand Canyon University
Championship Golf Course (lower right).
Center forWorship Arts students,
includingMaddison Harris (singing,
above), produced their first LP, and
engineering degrees were offered by the
University for the first time as the STEM
curriculum took hold (left, bottom).
