Grand Canyon University

GCU didn't let pandemic stop teaching practicums

Student Ellie Everitt needed practicum hours toward her education degree but was worried that area schools switching to online instruction during the pandemic wouldn't need […]

Students' heart for serving earns them stethoscopes

When Dignity Health needed help at the last minute at its East Valley COVID vaccine Point of Dispensing site, GCU's nursing students stepped up in […]

New student leaders say their mission is to listen

Darion Padilla and Ben Claypool were speechless when they found out the results of the record-setting election, when the pair became leaders of the Associated […]

After 12-month hiatus, GCU returns to Serve the City

When COVID-19 struck Arizona last spring, the University paused many of its community initiatives, including its most visible one -- its partnership with Habitat for […]

Nursing students circle back to clinical rotations

After hospitals and other health care facilities paused their clinical rotations last spring, the College of Nursing and Health Care Professions scrambled to fill the […]

GCU vaccine site opens to public by appointment

It took just 10 days -- 10 days -- for GCU to create a regional COVID-19 vaccination site, one unique in that it is the […]

Helping the Rescue Mission is an easy sell for GCU

GCU has partnered with Phoenix Rescue Mission in many ways over the years, from helping the nonprofit's restaurant, Mission Possible Cafe, get off the ground, […]

Allocate to Elevate never on back burner for one team

Office of Financial Aid Vice President Chris Arnold sees firsthand how Allocate to Elevate impacts his community. He remembers receiving a letter, written on grade-school, […]

Nearly 800 tested at community COVID event

Just before the first COVID vaccines were administered to health care workers on Monday, GCU was the site of a free-of-charge, community COVID Testing Blitz. […]