Mike Kilen

From trailer park to budding astronaut, former student aims for the stars

Celene Meraz-Benavente dreamed of the stars outside her rural Colorado trailer but didn’t even know if she could afford college. But after earning scholarships to […]

She traded work boots for law books

Abby Nevers clearly heard her dad’s advice when she was a little girl. It’s either work boots, Army boots or schoolbooks. The GCU alumna chose […]

Internship led GCU student to be the light for others

Junior Abigail Barstad had faced her own struggles through high school, but when she got to GCU she learned that behavioral health was a career […]

How Jack the Ripper launched history, behavioral health fusion

It was outside the norm, walking the streets of London to find the murder sites of Jack the Ripper, but GCU instructors from behavioral health […]

Canyon Rising scholars are a face of hope for their families

Kharlo Ramirez Aleman’s parents sat in the front row of Global Credit Union Arena Thursday night, and his grandmother who travelled from Mexico was wheeled […]

GCU's trades pathway launches Texas site

The Pre-Apprenticeship for Electricians Pathway has been a hit in Phoenix, so the GCU's Center for Workforce Development took its program to Austin, Texas, another […]

GCU College of Education adjuncts 'on fire' for new academic year

For the first time, the College of Education kicked off the academic year with a faculty conference for adjunct faculty members, and they were enthused […]

'I'll call you when I want to feel close to home'

They stood in family huddles, arms draped around one another, in an inaugural rite of passage called Lope Family Sendoff that gave parents prayers and […]

These students came to play at Intramural Sports Field Night

If you don’t think Intramural sports are a big thing on campus, think again. There were 1,760 teams of 13,320 participants last academic year. And […]