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If you’re looking for love or a good hiking trail, check out this week’s Antelope Intros. These two new employees aren’t shy about sharing on those two subjects.

This week’s Antelope Intros feature two enrollment counselors, one a foodie and the other a filmmaker. They have one very big thing in common — they love being at GCU.

This week’s Antelope Intros feature two new employees who like to help people and get out and do things. One of them had a hairy adventure on her 21st birthday.

This week’s Antelope Intros feature a new employee who had a unique way of preparing for her first exams in college and another who has gone to great lengths to devote her life to the care of children.

This week’s Antelope Intros feature two enrollment counselors, one who works in Tempe and another who’s in Peoria. Whether tracing family history or providing a skill that translates well, they both are self-starters.

While Grand Canyon University’s campus is safer than many, students, faculty and staff are encouraged this week to sign a pledge statement to a universal “commitment to help keep women and men safe from sexual assault.” The effort is part of the national “It’s On Us” campaign launched by the Obama administration.

This week’s Antelope Intros include the stories of a former GCU student worker who became a full-time employee after graduating and of a California resident who started working here because of the great experience she and her family had when they just happened to visit campus.

By Marette Hahn GCU Career Services Have you ever wondered what “servant leadership” looks like? Take one look at Andrew Boozer, and you’ll see such leadership in action. As a digital marketing campaign manager, Boozer exemplifies Grand Canyon University’s mission, vision and values. The business management student also is a worship leader at his church and aspires to be in executive leadership at a company in order to balance a good-paying career with family and travel. Boozer’s favorite part about his major are the personal stories told by the professors and the life lessons he has learned from Dr. Moronke Oke, Kenneth Hein and Taylor Carr in particular. Beyond his responsibilities as a student and worship leader, Boozer excels in his student worker position. “It’s nice to be given more responsibility than some others, and the knowledge I’ve learned – there have been a lot of good things I can use in the future,” he said. Above all, he values the servant leadership focus of GCU and its business management program as a whole. Erin Kerger, Boozer’s hiring manager, said Boozer seems to have a good understanding of servant leadership. “I have never met such an upstanding and philanthropic young […]

On the eve of Valentine’s Day, there’s love in the air in Antelope Intros. A new employee wrote passionately about five things she loves to explore.

The featured employees in this week’s Antelope Intros are athletic but also eclectic. They do things that add up, show a thread of ingenuity (well, lots of threads) and enjoy an activity that’s for slackers — literally.