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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 […]

Published October 16, 2017

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 […]

Published October 14, 2017

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 […]

Published October 13, 2017

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. […]

Published October 11, 2017

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 […]

Published September 21, 2017

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 […]

Published May 10, 2017

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. […]

Published April 29, 2017

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 — […]

Published April 28, 2017

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 […]

Published April 25, 2017