GCU News

Students at Ignite encouraged to continue to be the light

Photos by Ralph Freso / Slideshow Among a sea of students who spilled onto the Grand Canyon University Quad on Tuesday night after Ignite and […]

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 […]

Ignite worship event

A first-day-of-school tradition at GCU is the Ignite worship service, when the Spiritual Life department sets the spiritual tone for the year. Ignite, on Tuesday […]

GCU Dining: Labor Day week

GCU Welcome Week, by the numbers

Photos by Ralph Freso It was the best of times; it was the busiest of times. Welcome Week wrapped up on Saturday with the American […]

Lope-A-Palooza

One of the Welcome Week student favorites is Lope-A-Palooza, a beginning-of-the-year pep rally of sorts to get students excited for the new semester as they […]

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 […]

Canyon Cool Down

It's Phoenix. The weather is hot. The solution for students at GCU during Welcome Week: Canyon Cool Down. The event featured water guns, waterslides, bubbles, […]