Campus Life

The excitement that is Move-In descended on campus Thursday as new students began moving into their residence halls. GCU Today is on the scene with a live blog that will be updated throughout the day with stories, anecdotes, photos and introductions to some of our new students.

GCU Today conducted Q&As with the RDs to get a sense of what motivates them to serve students, to learn what they do for fun, and to understand what makes GCU dorm life unique.

The Thunderground concept came from interest in developing a Christian-flavored nightclub that would generate buzz among students and with the music industry in Nashville, where GCU has developed relationships to bring major Christian acts to campus.

GCU has a brand-new dining experience awaiting students, faculty and staff in the renovated Student Union. It also has a new executive chef in Bob Spaziani, who got his degree in hotel-restaurant management from the University of New Haven (Conn.) and continued his education at the Culinary Institute of America, becoming an executive chef in 1995.

GCU got a sneak peek at the new menu offering in the renovated Student Union, which opens Thursday for lunch and dinner.

GCU faculty member Tom Dyer says passion will help ignite a fire in students. The idea comes from the theme for the year delivered by Associate Provost Dr. Kathy Player, based on a quote by W.B. Yeats: “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

Volunteers during Move-In made all the difference in the world to our visitors, and some of them took the time to let us know it.

Helping to set the community tone will be weekly Chapel in GCU Arena, which could draw as many as 2,000 students on Mondays this fall. Speakers for the semester have been given a choice of the so-called “one another” passages from the Bible.

The newest eatery on campus, Zoyo Neighborhood Yogurt, will offer “Thunder berry” as one of eight yogurt and smoothie flavors.

Matt Hopkins has joined GCU as a full-time judicial officer charged with overseeing non-academic student disciplinary review.