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In demand: Why employers keep coming back to GCU

Employers love GCU alumni and students, from startup Whatnot, which has hired more than 30 of them, to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Camp Elliott 2026

Campers pitched tents and hammocks on the Quad this week in anticipation of tonight's Midnight Madness pep rally to launch Grand Canyon University's basketball season. […]

Students level up, win 72-hour game design challenge

Let's take a few years to develop a video game? Not at the Arizona Game Cup, where students from seven universities had just 72 hours […]

New dean: GCU's College of Natural Sciences 'rethinking science education'

Dr. Jon Valla, after leaving his hometown of Hibbing, Minnesota, planned to become a psychologist, until an internship made him realized that wasn't for him. […]

Classroom reimagined to look like workplace via 16-credit-hour learning blocks

What if you took a course that had no quizzes or exams? What if your professor didn't lecture but was there more as a mentor […]

Classroom journey leads to D.C. for 'Oscars of Teaching' winner, GCU alum

Photos courtesy of the Milken Family Foundation Flashing cameras, big crowds and a red carpet rivaling Hollywood’s best faded into the background when two-time Grand […]

Green to Gold to GCU purple: Army ROTC alum embraces his gift for leadership

2nd Lt. Juan Loera Rogers joined the Army as a carpentry and masonry specialist. But he wanted something more, so he took advantage of every […]

Love of community helped chart GCU medical director’s path

Dr. Matt Shores’ first love was English. He wanted to be a teacher. But he instead chose medicine. He just wanted to help people and […]

Program passes test in helping students excel on national nursing exam

When nursing graduates cross the stage during commencement, it's not the end of their academic journey. They must then pass a national exam called the […]