Welcome Week

Here's the big numbers for Welcome Week, including 117

Catch these big numbers compiled over Welcome Week. You may know the real big one -- the record-setting temperature -- but did you know the […]

Welcome Week is social, the eye-to-eye kind

At many Welcome Weeks events you won't find too many faces buried in their phones on social media. Especially at Welcome Week socials, where the […]

Lope Shop a prime stop for Welcome Week

Welcome Week is the busiest week of the year for the Lope Shop, where this year, the big-sellers are anything lavender-colored, particularly tank tops and […]

Multicultural Office skates into new year

The Multicultural Office's Welcome Week icebreaker, Project L, took on a '70s theme, complete with roller skating and music by ABBA and the Bee Gees. […]

Welcome Week spirit just keeps growing

Hang on to your hats. Welcome Week 2022 is about here. Welcome Programs Manager Alden Sia lays out all the new events and the transformation […]

Pinning ceremony stirs emotion in parents, students

This week's Welcome Session is more than just an opportunity for students and parents to gain valuable information about the University. It also includes an […]

Initiative welcomes parents into the 'Lope familia'

When junior mechanical engineering major Daniela Chavira attended Welcome Week as a freshman, her parents, who don't speak English, didn't get the same experience she […]

Life leaders help students feel at home on campus

GCU life leaders were among the thousands of students roaming the campus as Move-In began today. But they were the ones trying to make connections, […]

The Rivers arrives: 'It's so fresh and new in here'

It's official -- the first day of Move-In brought The Rivers to life. Students have a multitude of things about their new apartment complex to […]