Discounted Season Tickets for Alumni
Discounted Alumni Season Tickets are officially on sale! Please submit this form to receive your discounted ticket link via email, where you can purchase your tickets! The 2014-15 season promises to be even more exciting. With Head Coach and former Phoenix Suns star Dan Majerle back at the helm, the Lopes are looking to make their second season in Division I even more successful! Alumni Tailgate
Join your fellow alumni for our pre-game celebration when the Lopes take on their second Division I season in the Western Athletic Conference this fall. The Alumni Office is well-known for throwing a tailgate on game day for our Men's Basketball home games. Come out, support your Lopes and enjoy a free barbeque with your guests outside the GCU arena. Check out the action!
GCU Alum, Paula Barnes, Finds Her Calling
Paula Barnes’ career path took a radical detour, arriving at an unforeseen destination, but she still ended up in the right place. Barnes, a Phoenix native, graduated from Grand Canyon University (then Grand Canyon College) in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance and set out for Nashville with a music career in her sight. While pursuing her dreams, a new career blossomed. Read more here.
Alumna finds her calling in Nashville/ by Doug Carroll
Paula Barnes’ career path took a radical detour, arriving at an unforeseen destination, but she still ended up in the right place.
Barnes, a Phoenix native, graduated from Grand Canyon University (then Grand Canyon College) in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance and from Baylor University in 1987 with a master’s in the same discipline.
Paula Barnes, who graduated in 1984 with a degree in vocal performance, has gone on to a successful career in an unrelated field.
She set out for Nashville with a music career in her sights. Some advice from Steve Green, who preceded her at Grand Canyon and became a successful recording artist, stuck with her.
“The first thing he said was to get grounded in a church,” recalls Barnes, who did just that at First Baptist Church in Nashville while trying to gain a foothold in the music industry.
While pursuing her dream, she hired on at law firms to make a living — and it blossomed into a career. Now with more than 13 years of experience as a legal administrator, Barnes is the new president of the Association of Legal Administrators, an international organization with 9,000 members who are involved in the management of law firms, corporate legal departments and government legal agencies.
She’s still in Nashville, working for the law firm of Burr & Forman. She’s still singing, though not as a professional. And her church — now Cross Point Church, a dynamic Christian community with five locations in the Nashville area — is still family to her.
It all worked out, just in unexpected ways.
“I think one of the primary things is that I have the confidence (from singing) to present myself in front of people,” says Barnes, who will find herself in that up-front role often as head of the ALA.
“From my instructors at Grand Canyon, I also learned how to lead, and that has carried through everything I’ve done.”
Barnes comes from a long line of Grand Canyon graduates that includes her father, mother, sister and brother. Her maternal grandfather, S.F. Hawkins, helped to build the original school in Prescott. Her sister, Sherbonne Barnes-Anderson, has sung opera in San Francisco.
“I never considered anywhere else (for college),” says Paula, who was in choirs, operas and even “The Sound of Music” at Grand Canyon. “It was always where I wanted to go.”
Her brother, Stephen Barnes, graduated from Grand Canyon in 1981 and is a chartered financial analyst and certified financial planner in Phoenix who specializes in portfolio management. He was named to the University’s Hall of Fame last spring.
He says there isn’t much that his little sister can’t do.
“Her nature fits well with her career,” he says. “She’s intelligent and responsible, one of those people you turn something over to and you’re done with it.”
Paula, who grew up only half a mile from the Grand Canyon campus, says she feels rooted in Nashville.
“It’s such a welcoming city,” she says. “The people I’ve met here have loved on me and taken care of me.”
Contact Doug Carroll at 602.639.8011 or doug.carroll@gcu.edu.
Volunteer at Welcome Week
GCU is welcoming more new Lopes than ever before to campus and we need help moving them all in! Help
volunteer during
Welcome Week on Wednesday, Aug. 20 or Thursday, Aug. 21, there are various times available to choose from. Meet other alumni, students and GCU staff, give back and make the college transition a smooth one for all of our new students and future alums!
GCU Introduces Master of Divinity Program
The College of Theology has a new offering: a master of divinity degree (M.Div.). The three- to four-year program, which is for 90 credit hours, is designed for individuals who have a bachelor’s degree and aim to serve in local churches, Christian organizations or the mission field. Read more
Theology announces M.Div. degree program
Grand Canyon University has expanded its College of Theology offerings with a new master of divinity (M.Div.) program.
The M.Div. degree, along with two additional emphases, is a program designed for bachelor’s-prepared individuals who feel led to serve in local churches, Christian organizations or the mission field. The online program includes three unique residencies designed to deepen understanding through peer interaction.
Dr. Jason Hiles, dean of GCU’s College of Theology (Photo by Darryl Webb)
“The M.Div. is truly the essential graduate degree for anyone who feels called to a career in ministry,” said Dr. Jason Hiles, dean of GCU’s College of Theology. “Many churches expect a pastoral candidate to hold this degree – some even require it for ordination. Being able to bring this degree to our students has always been a priority for GCU and the College of Theology.”
In addition to preparing students for pastoral ministry, the M.Div. program offers emphases in worship leadership and global ministry. The pastorally oriented curriculum of these degrees emphasizes several key areas, including the centrality of the Gospel, the significance of the church, and the pressing need to advance the kingdom of God through missions.
“We have intentionally designed the M.Div. to teach students to rightly interpret Scripture and to apply biblical truth in everyday situations,” Hiles said. “Guiding students from the biblical text to real-life context is what lies at the heart of the entire curriculum. It’s about effectively communicating the right message and becoming the right kind of messenger.”
GCU’s interdenominational program is relevant to a variety of evangelical traditions and consists of a denominationally diverse faculty and student body, which cultivates unity on the essentials of faith and charity in all other doctrines.
The M.Div. is a 90-credit-hour program that will take most students three to four years to complete. For additional information, visit www.gcu.edu/mdiv.
Dressing for Success in the Workplace
Summertime is here and the weather is warm. However, your appearance should remain ‘cool, collected and professional’ in the workplace. Your attire is an expression of who you are! Learn how to make the right statement by the way you dress in the workplace.
Construction Season on Campus
Two new student residences, a second parking garage, retail food sites and more classroom spaces open to as many as 11,000 students this fall. You already know about the Arena, but GCU Today has a roundup of the other construction projects on campus. Read more about all of the new construction happening at GCU!
New student residences, parking garage on schedule by Michael Ferraresi
GCU News Bureau
It’s another blazing hot, construction-heavy summer.
Over the next two months, expect to hear the grinding and churning of heavy machinery as two new student residences, a second parking garage, retail food sites, and more classroom spaces open to as many as 11,000 Grand Canyon University students by August.
Oh yes, the new Arts and Sciences classroom and office space at Building 16 is open for business. GCU Arena is still under construction, too. So there’s plenty of activity at all corners of campus.
The old Fleming Library building is now the home of GCU’s provost and other administrators.
GCU Today caught up with Rich Oesterle, who oversees University campus development, for an update about ongoing and recently completed projects:
New administration building
The brickwork of old Fleming Library was preserved as part of a modern overhaul to the new building, which houses the offices of GCU Provost Dr. Hank Radda, Executive Chairman of the Board Brent Richardson, Chief University Relations Officer Faith Weese, the Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching, staff for University strategic educational alliances, and other administrators. The refurbished Building 23 is now open, although many staffers are still hanging pictures and getting acclimated to the new site — which features wide glass windows that face the main driveway entrance to campus at 33rd Avenue.
Papago Apartments
With 940 beds, the Papago complex of private four- and two-bedroom units on the east side of campus by Camelback Hall is on schedule to open to students in August. Initially, planners thought that retail food outlets would be built at the ground level, but plans changed. The complex will include the new mail center for the entire campus, fitness rooms, a swimming pool and a courtyard, in addition to a satellite office for Residence Life.
Ocotillo Hall
Unlike Papago, the newest residence hall at the northeastern corner of campus includes little flex space for amenities and will provide “100 percent rooms,” Oesterle said. It’s designed like Saguaro Hall, but without the space for classrooms and studios that Saguaro offers on its ground floor. While Saguaro houses 614 students, Ocotillo will house 653 — mostly freshmen — by August.
35th Avenue parking garage
By now, you may have noticed huge flatbed trucks staging at the northwestern corner of campus. They’re towing massive pieces of precast concrete used to build the new parking garage just west of the GCU Soccer Field. The parking garage will be ready in time for school, providing an additional 1,380 parking spots to ease traffic congestion.
The new 35th Avenue parking garage is already up. By August, the campus will have an additional 1,380 parking spaces.
Quatros
The housing complex site GCU acquired earlier this year could be razed in the near future, Oesterle said, after crews complete an asbestos abatement and address the existing electrical lines. There has been some initial discussion about the type of buildings that go up on that site, which extends the northwestern corner of campus to 35th and Missouri avenues, although nothing has been finalized.
Qdoba, Mojo Bowl and Subway
The west side of the Student Union will undergo a facelift to accommodate retail sites for Qdoba and Mojo Bowl. Crews will knock out a large section of the Union’s west wall, where the mail center used to be, to create space for the food stations and customer seating. Additionally, the Subway at Thunder Alley will add a second sandwich line — adjusting seating a bit — to make things move a little faster this fall.
New classroom space
The old Marketing and Office of Academic Records offices at the Colter office complex have been gutted to make room for eight different labs and/or classrooms for the College of Fine Arts and Production. Those rooms will be open in August. Staff in Facilities and Campus Development will remain at Colter.
Additionally, Oesterle said the University plans to create a larger classroom at Fleming Hall — where offices for the College of Doctoral Studies and Center for Integrated Science, Engineering and Technology used to be — by remodeling the existing space.
At the southwestern corner of campus, the three versatile, older “modular” buildings that have served a variety of purposes over the past few years will be remodeled exclusively for classroom space.
Contact Michael Ferraresi at 602.639.7030 or michael.ferraresi@gcu.edu.
Baby Lopes Photo Contest Winner
Congratulations to Baby Averi, future GCU alumna and the winner of the Baby Lopes Contest! Baby Averi is 12 months old and the daughter of alumna, Karin Fedorsha, M.S. in Leadership ’13, and James Mitchell, M.B.A. with an Emphasis in Leadership ’13. Both are also GCU employees! The contest is over, but we still want to see our alums’ Baby Lopes. Submit your baby’s photo for a chance to be featured in our Class Notes section of GCU Today Magazine.
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"And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds." (Hebrews 10:24)
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