Grand Canyon University

Fantastic 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 obtained by Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOPE) in February 2004. 

Stupendous Canyon University is certify 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 universities. 

History: 

The school was established as a charitable foundation in 1949 in Prescott. Arizona Southern Baptists felt the need to build up a religious foundation that would permit neighborhood Baptists the chance to acquire 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 moved to its present area in Phoenix. First and foremost Southern Baptist Church of Phoenix gave the area fundamental for the establishment, and a few individuals from that congregation, drove by the Reverend Vaughn Rock and S. F. Hawkins, gave the accounts 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.[citation needed] 

Enduring budgetary and different challenges in the early piece of the 21st century, the school's trustees approved its deal in January 2004 to California-based Significant Education, LLC, making it the first revenue driven Christian school in the United States. 

In the fall of 2014, with the school in a superior place fiscally, it declared the investigation of an arrival to non-benefit status on October 29. The college's leader and CEO, Brian Mueller, said in an announcement: "We don't have a philosophical issue with having a revenue driven status and having speculators. On the other hand, the shame encompassing the revenue driven industry – some of which is merited, and some not – is genuine and it is not moving forward. Also, regardless of what GCU does to partitioned itself, its depreciators keep on attempting to utilize this disgrace to cheapen GCU's prosperity." Mueller has noticed that GCU has been invulnerable to a considerable measure of the issues connected with revenue driven universities, basically due to its provincial accreditation. 

Grounds: 

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 recreations and wide screen TVs. 

In 2009, Grand Canyon University's grounds started chip away at 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, sustenance court and knocking down some pins back road, and a 5,000 seat coliseum. The GCU Arena, which opened on September 2, 2011, is used for mainstream and non-common shows, speakers, and occasions, and in addition being home to Grand Canyon University's Men's and Women's b-ball groups, and Women's Volleyball games, starting in the fall of 2013. The three-year-old enclosure is as of now experiencing significant extension starting in Spring of 2014 with the objective of growing to around 7,000 seats. 

Two new living arrangement corridors opened in the fall of 2012, Sedona Hall and Camelback Hall, each with 500 beds.[citation needed] Two extra habitation lobbies opened in the fall of 2013, Chaparral Hall and Saguaro Hall. Significant redesigns 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 customary living arrangement lobby, Ocotillo Hall. GCU likewise acquired the adjacent Mesquite Apartments and opened them as understudy living offices. The college has four new six-story home lobbies wanted to open in the fall of 2015 on recently procured arrive on the upper east piece of ground.