Saturday, 21 May 2016
Grand Canyon University
The school was established as a not-for-profit organization in 1949 in Prescott. Arizona Southern Baptists felt the need to set up a religious establishment that would permit neighborhood Baptists the chance to get a lone ranger's or graduate degree without going east to one of the Baptist schools in Texas or Oklahoma. On October 8, 1951, Grand Canyon College migrated to its present area in Phoenix.
Enduring monetary and different troubles 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 monetarily, it reported 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. Be that as it may, the shame encompassing the revenue driven industry – some of which is merited, and some not – is genuine and it is not moving forward. Furthermore, regardless of what GCU does to partitioned itself, its spoilers keep on attempting to utilize this shame to diminish GCU's prosperity." Mueller has noticed that GCU has been insusceptible to a great deal of the issues connected with revenue driven universities, chiefly in light of its provincial accreditat
