Mike Kilen

Professors sent students encouraging words, inspiring poetry – and determination

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story was originally published in the November issue of GCU Magazine, available in the purple bins on campus or digitally. Michelle Ray’s […]

State board: COE is 'ahead of the curve'

Sean Ross said that “if you heal a kid, you heal a school. If you heal a school, you heal a community.” To do all […]

A week for first generation students to remind themselves they made it

Photos by Ralph Freso She came to Grand Canyon University with her parents’ hopes and her own empty pockets. “My dad immigrated here at age […]

LOPES Academy participant is more than mainstream, he's a standout Havoc

Last year, Evan McKee was helping lead the student section at a basketball game, similar to his role as Havocs president at Midnight Madness earlier […]

Day on writing shows value of words ... in so many words

Photos by Ralph Freso / Slideshow “One time in another universe …” Thus began the progressive collaboration, where one writer’s sentence built off the last […]

A family triple play: dad to mom to daughter in commencement call

Photos by Ralph Freso / Wednesday morning slideshow / Livestream During a Sunday family Zoom session, Bern and Margo Roberts of Mesa, Arizona, asked daughter […]

GCU students embed in neighboring school in new educator program

Photos by Ralph Freso Three college students are perched on little chairs in front of the kindergarten class, squirming but sitting crisscross applesauce on their […]

Virtue panel stresses compassion to future educators

A panel of five experts left an impression on the more than 100 students and staff who attended The Virtuous Educator: Building Capacity to Teach […]

Graduate's path to commencement stage is rocky, lifeless, humorous

Photos by Ralph Freso / Slideshow / Livestream The path some travel to an online degree later in life is rarely boring, but Garrison Bailey’s […]