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Highlights from Friday’s graduation of nearly 900 students in four of GCU’s colleges: Arts and Sciences, Theology, Doctoral Studies and Business.

Being shot and paralyzed did little to prevent Latisha Anderson from recognizing her path in life. The GCU online nursing graduate student will receive her diploma this week and put it to use as a nurse manager working in the geriatric psych unit at Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center in Sun City.

Five have made the final cut in the third annual entrepreneurial competition and will make live presentations on March 27.

The third annual competition, which will stage its final round in late March before an impressive panel of judges, has been fine-tuned and expects to attract dozens of entries.

Among the issues to be discussed by a team that has launched a review of GCU’s PhD in psychology is whether learners in the program should be required to attend dissertation “boot camps” to hone their research skills and work collaboratively.

GCU online student Catherine Herron said devine inspiration led her to write her first book and record her first gospel CD.

Executive summaries for the Challenge are due on Jan. 31, and 10 finalists will be announced four weeks later. Those 10 will submit full business plans, and then five will be selected to make live presentations in late March.

Students and faculty at the Delta Mu Delta Honors Symposium presented their studies on the topic of ethics at the Williams Building lecture hall.

Paige Day, assistant fire chief in Missouri City, Texas, a Houston suburb, plans to use her doctorate in education from GCU to write and lecture about the importance of mentors for women interested in the male-dominated fire service, She was in Phoenix this week for her doctoral residency, the final one of the year.

GCU Arena was packed for the first-ever fall ceremony for nontraditional students, many of whom came for the weekend from great distances to celebrate their accomplishment.