Grand Canyon University (GCU)

Grand Canyon University (GCU) is a private, revenue driven Christian college situated in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. GCU was established in 1949 as a non-benefit human sciences school, and was acquired by Grand Canyon Education, Inc. 

Stupendous Canyon University is licensed by the Higher Learning Commission and gives grounds based and also online postsecondary training administrations concentrated on graduate and college degree programs in instruction, human sciences, business, and social insurance through its eight schools.

The school was established as a charitable foundation in 1949 in Prescott. Arizona Southern Baptists felt the need to set up a religious organization that would permit nearby Baptists the chance to get a Bachelor's or Master's degree without setting off east to one of the Baptist universities in Texas or Oklahoma. On October 8, 1951, Grand Canyon College migrated to its present area in Phoenix. First Southern Baptist Church of Phoenix gave the area vital for the foundation, and a few individuals from that congregation, drove by the Reverend Vaughn Rock and S. F. Hawkins, gave the funds and physical work expected to bring G.C.C, as it was known, into reality. Fabulous Canyon College was renamed Grand Canyon University in 1989

Campus

In 2006, the Grand Canyon University grounds got a US$150 million makeover including a block promenade, an aquatics focus, with pool and hot tub, and a bistro offering a variety of diversions and wide screen televisions.

In 2009, Grand Canyon University's grounds started deal with a $60 million grounds extension venture which incorporates a 500-bed quarters, a 55,000-square-foot (5,100 m2) wellness and diversion focus, 125-classroom office, nourishment court and knocking down some pins alley, and a 5,000 seat stadium. The GCU Arena, which opened on September 2, 2011, is used for common and non-mainstream shows, speakers, and occasions, and being home to Grand Canyon University's Men's and Women's ball groups, and Women's Volleyball games, starting in the fall of 2013. The three-year-old stadium is now experiencing significant development starting in Spring of 2014 with the objective of growing to around 7,000 seats.

Two new habitation lobbies opened in the fall of 2012, Sedona Hall and Camelback Hall, each with 500 beds.[citation needed] Two extra living arrangement corridors opened in the fall of 2013, Chaparral Hall and Saguaro Hall. Real updates have been made to the Student Union building, changing the structure to a four-story building with two library floors, one Peet's Coffee & Tea floor, and another cafeteria floor. A condo style habitation corridor, the Papago Apartments, opened in fall of 2014 alongside another conventional home lobby, Ocotillo Hall. GCU likewise obtained the close-by Mesquite Apartments and opened them as understudy living offices. The college has four new six-story habitation corridors wanted to open in the fall of 2015 on recently gained arrive on the upper east piece of grounds.

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