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Slideshow: Friday commencement ceremonies

Photos by Slaven Gujic GCU News Bureau Nontraditional (online) students from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the College of Nursing and Health Care […]

At crunch time, grads showed what makes them tick

Graduates juggle raising children and balancing jobs with their studies. GCU Today talked to several graduates about the road to receiving their degrees during fall […]

Online graduates are saluted at commencement

The first of four online commencement ceremonies convened Friday morning in GCU Arena, and Pam Aydelott sure stood out -- she was wearing a 1940s-era […]

Dedicating degree to memory of her heroic son

Meloney Jefferson always wanted to be a teacher, but she knew the path to getting her online degree from Grand Canyon University would be difficult. […]

Shot of hope: Nurse has heart for helping people

Nurse Carma Erickson-Hurt, a GCU online faculty member, recently returned from the Houston area, where she gave more than 200 tetanus shots to those who […]

Students help elders refresh the fount of knowledge

One of the unique features of Grand Canyon University's online program is the fact that students -- many of them in their 40s and 50s […]

Free-wheeling: How a graduate kept going forward

Ryan Pinney rolled his wheelchair onstage Saturday at spring commencement with the same force he has used to overcome the bicycling injury that paralyzed him. […]

Kids play big role in online graduates' stories

Online students have many amazing stories of overcoming obstacles to earn their degrees. Some of them make you wonder how they ever did it — […]

For some families, commencement is doubly good

The commencement ceremonies this week are big days for families. And when there are two graduates in the family -- especially when they've motivated each […]