Mike Kilen

GCU pledges its allegiance with teachers

Teaching can be tough. Fighting for enough funding or pay. Taking all of society's ills into your classroom, which this year means COVID-19. But GCU […]

How education helped bring him out of darkness

Kevin McCausland wrote a text to his friend and swallowed six pills. He thought his life was over after years battling drug and alcohol additions. […]

Her job shows how SIS scholarship program works

Those first Students Inspiring Students scholarship recipients came to GCU with hope for a better future. The University helped them grow and have watched many […]

As campus adapts, sense of community will remain

GCU is known for its vibrant campus life. To maintain that spirit was a big challenge that University and student leaders tackled this summer. Here's […]

Advocacy and counseling go hand in hand

An advocate can be as simple as “not remaining silent when someone speaks negatively of other people,” said Ron Friesen, a GCU adjunct instructor who […]

Faculty are plugged in for online, blended learning

GCU ground faculty did it in a pinch, shifting gears last spring when classes moved to emergency remote learning mode because of the pandemic. But […]

New COE Assistant Dean loves guiding teachers

To say the new Assistant Dean in the College of Education is driven may be an understatement. Emily Pottinger has taken on the leadership role […]

This training will help multiply number of teachers

There's a national teacher shortage, a numbers problem GCU is helping address. GCU's K12 Educational Development hopes its webinar training on teacher certification tests adds […]

Counselors face their own pandemic stress

The stresses are adding up. A pandemic, social unrest, working from home, loss of income and freedoms. Now think of the mental health professionals trying […]