Campus Life

GCU students have heard about hunger and poverty, and some have experienced it. An event on campus on Thursday is about to bring them face-to-face with these critical global issues.

Club sports are growing at Grand Canyon University, with baseball, bowling, rugby and lacrosse among those drawing talented student athletes.

Matt Hopkins took over as Grand Canyon University’s director of residence life in the midst of the busiest time in his department’s history.

Dr. Peter Williams of Tyndale House Cambridge used the story of King David from 1 and 2 Samuel to illustrate that “you can mistake the success God gives you for success you have achieved yourself.”

The apartments under construction on the east side of campus need a name. The complex is expected to provide nearly 1,000 private beds by August 2014.

Churches from the eastern sector of metro Phoenix will be well-represented among speakers, in a nod to the opening of GCU’s satellite campus in Mesa in 2015.

The year’s top 10 stories and a selection of photos from the GCU Today staff and campus photographer Darryl Webb.

You won’t find GCU junior Wil Gilliland playing video games in his dorm room when he can be teaching and playing soccer with refugee children living down the street from the University. For his beyond-the-call-of-duty actions as a student leader, Gilliland was selected as the November recipient of the GCU Community Service Award.

Elite group of student fans has helped make men’s basketball games a production, and leaders expect their numbers to grow. “We’re not a joke,” says the group’s president, Justin Macari. “This is like building a business.”

The University’s student engagement manager is finalizing plans to adopt two children from Uganda, but she estimates that the effort is still about $10,000 short.