OT: Grand Canyon University looking to move back to non-profit status

[MWC Tex]

http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/2014/10/29/gcu-weighs-buying-investors-turning-nonprofit/18141677/

 

With their financial problems behind them and growing enrollment on their phyiscal campus, they wanting to get back to a traditional non-profit university.

 

Currently, they are in the second year of D1 transition in the WAC.  If they can make good progress in the next 10 years, the MW can fill the geographic hole in AZ with GCU.  They are looking to start up football also.

[TheTedfordTrain]

Drop SJSU and add GCU.

[jdgaucho]

What conference does GCU really want to end up in? 

[CPslograd]

What conference does GCU really want to end up in? 

 

Same on as everyone else does.

 

The PAC12 baby!.  Heard it hear first, GCU to the PAC.

[Guest #1Stunner]

Arizona and Arizona State feel really threatened by Grand Canyon, and tried to get the PAC12 to put a scheduling ban on them.

Aren't almost all of their students enrolled online?

JDGaucho is a huge fan of theirs.

[Wyobraska]

Arizona and Arizona State feel really threatened by Grand Canyon, and tried to get the PAC12 to put a scheduling ban on them.

Aren't almost all of their students enrolled online?

JDGaucho is a huge fan of theirs.

They have a decent sized campus in Phoenix. Not sure of on campus enrollment though

[MWC Tex]

They have a decent sized campus in Phoenix. Not sure of on campus enrollment though

On campus: 8,200

[masterfrog]

The ability to enroll in all online courses would have great appeal to me if I was a student athlete.

[CPslograd]

The ability to enroll in all online courses would have great appeal to me if I was a student athlete.

 

Hell, the SWC didn't even bother with that, so why are you getting hung up on this?

[UTAlrightGuy]

The ability to enroll in all online courses would have great appeal to me if I was a student athlete.

Well....yeah. I'm sure it appeals to a lot of people that don't want to go to class or participate in school in general. Just use that stipend money to pay for grades.

[jdgaucho]

Arizona and Arizona State feel really threatened by Grand Canyon, and tried to get the PAC12 to put a scheduling ban on them.

Aren't almost all of their students enrolled online?

JDGaucho is a huge fan of theirs.

 

I'm a fan of the BW adding Grand Canyon.  Direct flight for Hawaii, the SoCal schools can bus to Phoenix, member #10.  All nicey nice

[jdgaucho]

Same on as everyone else does.

 

The PAC12 baby!.  Heard it hear first, GCU to the PAC.

 

The Pac needs some Central Coast representation.  Cal Poly and UCSB to the Pac!!

[Wyobraska]

I'm a fan of the BW adding Grand Canyon. Direct flight for Hawaii, the SoCal schools can bus to Phoenix, member #10. All nicey nice

6+ hours for a bus ride? Would schools want to do that?

[bigbluebaby]

It is one long ass hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, trust me on this, I've done it.

And once you get there the last thing you will want to do is play a football game.

[Wyobraska]

[Wyobraska]

[bigbluebaby]

Is that the stadium with the track around it?

No bleachers?

[Wyobraska]

Is that the stadium with the track around it?

No bleachers?

They don't have a football team yet. 

[UNM2TIMES]

It is one long ass hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, trust me on this, I've done it.

And once you get there the last thing you will want to do is play a football game.

If you didn't weigh too much for a burro, they would have let you ride down.

[East Coast Aztec]

Isn't this essentially what Liberty has done?  I wish them the best.