The Arizona Cardinals shocked everyone at the University of Phoenix Stadium by defeating the Eagles. Leonard Pope played an important role in the victory.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
The College of Cardinals, Backed by a Pope
Friday, August 15, 2008
Cold Stone Creamery, Branson, Missouri
We were coming back from the Yakov Smirnoff show, where the star himself signed our special t-shirts. The Food Channel crew pounced on us at the Cold Stone Creamery and interviewed us about why we like ice cream.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
History of Grand Canyon University
A Death and a Dream: The Canyon Story
The Grand Canyon University story began in the 1920s with the demise of a small Baptist college, Montezuma College, in New Mexico. Two or three students and faculty of that school, consecrated there to the cause of Christian education, cached away a dream of one day building another school for the glory of God. The dream resurfaced in the mid 1940s in a business meeting of Arizona Southern Baptists in Casa Grande, Arizona. Pastor L. D. White of Calvary Baptist Church plunked a shiny silver dollar on a wooden table at the front of the room and proffered its value as the first donation toward a Baptist college in Arizona. Dozens of others followed, including a widow with a jar of pennies and a Montezuma alumnus who wrote a hundred dollar check. Enthusiasm seized everyone—everyone except Dr. Willis J. Ray.
Dr. Ray, a pastor and executive secretary of the fledgling Arizona Southern Baptist Convention, thought his fellow Baptists were getting in over their heads. Asked to take up the offering, he politely declined. Events over the next few years nearly proved him right. Enthusiasm for the project waned, as problems, setbacks, debts, and discouragements accumulated. Everyone gave up on the hope of the Baptist college—everyone except Dr. Willis J. Ray. His faith crystallized even as others’ dissipated, a fact the first board of trustees began to appreciate. Eventually, they asked Dr. Ray to serve as the little college’s first president. A Montezuma alumnus, Vernon Shipp, became the first chairman of the board of trustees. Another, Dr. Roland Beck, became its first professor. And so, Grand Canyon College came into existence.
In 1949, classrooms opened to 93 students in Prescott, Arizona. Two years of financial drought followed, spelled by occasional showers of generosity and the steady, sturdy growth of academic excellence and an athletic reputation. On October 8, 1951, Grand Canyon College relocated to the present campus in Phoenix. A handful of faithful pioneers—Roland Beck in education, Betty Beck in English, Niles Puckett and D. C. Martin in religion, H. E. TenHarkle and Grace Weller in music, Shihj-Ming Wang in mathematics, Clarice Maben in history, and David and Mildred Brazell in athletics—left their respective chances for prosperity to build the tiny college into a beacon of Christian education.
Their work paid off with the announcement of regional accreditation by the North Central Association in 1968. National championships began to accrue in basketball, baseball, and women’s tennis. With the 1980s, the academic program expanded into colleges of education, nursing, business, performing arts, and arts and sciences. Masters programs were developed in education, and shortly thereafter, in business.
The 1980s also witnessed an expansion of “Canyon’s” guiding theme. “Spiritual Emphasis” weekly sermons by the Reverend Tom Wolf of Los Angeles fired the spirit and seized the imagination of Grand Canyon’s faculty, staff, and students in 1982. Wolf proposed that all Christians are commissioned to missions and missions’ support and that the college was uniquely positioned to address that commission. He argued that mission work should increasingly depend not solely on evangelists but also on laymen, who give witness while cultivating their secular professions in the international marketplace. These ideas became part of a new global emphasis at Grand Canyon University.
GCU Website
Grand Canyon University - Four Pillars
Academic Advancement
Our demanding curriculum will empower you to stretch your intellectual capacity and gain vital knowledge and critical thinking skills that will be at your command throughout your life and career. Go for it!
Christian Camaraderie
GCU is much more than classroom learning and competitive sports! You’ll immediately make new friends who become your lifelong “brothers and sisters in Christ.” And you’ll participate with them in serving your fellow students and the surrounding community. Serving Christ is not a Job…it’s an Adventure!
Extracurricular Excellence
If participating in sports makes your heart pound, we’ll give you the playing field! We offer a broad range of intramural as well as intercollegiate opportunities. Who knows, you could be our 13th GCU baseball star to play for a Major League Baseball team!
Wellness & Well-Being
Get healthy, stay healthy! If that’s your personal goal, you’ll achieve it at GCU! Work out in our fully equipped fitness center, or take advantage of our tennis and basketball courts. Our state-of-the-art health care center gives nursing and athletic training majors the perfect place to develop their care-giving skills, too.
Apollo Group Names New CEO
From BizJournal:
Apollo Group names Charles Edelstein CEO
July 7, 2008 5:42 PM ET advertisement
Stocks mentioned in this article: Apollo Group Inc (APOL).
Apollo Group Inc. Monday announced it has appointed Charles B. Edelstein as CEO and member of the board of directors, effective Aug. 26.
John G. Sperling, founder of Phoenix-based Apollo Group (NASDAQ: APOL), continues to act as executive chairman of the board.
The move comes two weeks after Brian Mueller resigned as president and director of Apollo to take over as CEO of Grand Canyon University, which is in the process of going public.
Edelstein, 48, joins Apollo from Credit Suisse, where he served as a managing director and headed the global services group within the investment banking division as well as its Chicago investment banking office. Edelstein founded and oversaw Credit Suisse's advisory practice in the education industry, where he served as adviser to many of the largest education companies, including Apollo Group.
Edelstein sits on the Chicago board of directors for both Teach for America and Junior Achievement.
Apollo stock concluded Monday's trading at $55.23 per share, a gain of 5 cents on the day. The stock had been trading in the $54 range at midafternoon, but rallied in the final hour to hit $56 per share before a final retreat to the closing price.
Its 52-week range is from $37.92 to $81.68.
Apollo Group is a Phoenix-based provider of higher education focusing on working adults. Its subsidiaries include the University of Phoenix and Western International University.
Bio from Milliken Institute:
Managing Director, Global Head, Global Services Group, Credit Suisse First Boston LLC
Charles (Chas) Edelstein is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse First Boston, Head of its Global Services Group and Head of its Chicago office. Since joining CSFB in 1987, Edelstein has worked on a wide range of transactions including debt and equity capital markets executions, merger and acquisitions advisory work, corporate finance advisory work and a variety of other investment banking services. He has advised many of the CSFB’s most important clients including Apollo, BP Amoco, Career Education, Corinthian Colleges, DeVry, Ford Motor Company, and S.C. Johnson. In addition to his managerial responsibilities, Edelstein founded and oversees CSFB’s leading advisory practice in the Education industry. He also sits on CSFB’s GIS Management Committee. Edelstein’s previous experience includes three years as a management consultant with Price Waterhouse (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers). Edelstein earned his B.A. with highest distinction at the University of Illinois and his CPA from the State of Illinois. He also earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar with high distinction.
He gave $1,000 to Obama for America.
University of Phoenix and CIW Certification
From Business Wire:
University of Phoenix to Offer Certified Internet Webmaster Program
Business Wire, Nov 1, 2000 E-mail Print Link Business Editors
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 2000
Apollo Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:APOL) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, the University of Phoenix, will begin offering Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) certification courses from ProsoftTraining.com (Nasdaq:POSO). The courses will be available at select campuses beginning in January 2001.
"Today's announcement means that a large share of our students will now have access to CIW, the de facto standard in Internet certification," commented Dr. John G. Sperling, chairman and CEO of Apollo Group. "The principles upon which CIW is based, namely certification defined by industry-accepted job roles and vendor-neutrality, are well-matched with the principles of the University of Phoenix."
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"We are obviously excited to have the University of Phoenix adopt our CIW program," remarked Jerry Baird, CEO of ProsoftTraining.com. "The Apollo Group subsidiaries comprise the largest private institution of higher education in the United States. They have been accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools since 1978 and are innovative in meeting their students' needs. Their successful expansion into online learning and new campuses proves they have a winning formula."
Through the agreement, University of Phoenix students will have the ability to work toward certifications in website administration, programming or design, while achieving their bachelor's degree.
"The CIW program addresses real problems that our working students face every day," said Sperling. "The better prepared they are, the better they become to their employers."
Apollo Group, Inc. has been providing higher education programs to working adults for over 25 years. Apollo Group, Inc., operates through its subsidiaries the University of Phoenix, Inc., the Institute for Professional Development, the College for Financial Planning Institutes Corporation, Western International University, Inc. and Apollo Learning Group, Inc. The consolidated enrollment in its educational programs makes it the largest private institution of higher education in the United States. It offers educational programs and services at 54 campuses and 96 learning centers in 35 states, Puerto Rico and Vancouver, British Columbia. Combined degree enrollment was 100,900 students as of August 31, 2000. For more information about Apollo Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries, call 800/990-APOL or visit Apollo on the World Wide Web at http://www.apollogrp.edu.
About CIW
CIW is the industry-leading certification program for Internet professionals. CIW defines the critical job roles and associated skills required to deploy today's e-business solutions. The industry-validated job role designations provide a "road map" that helps individuals and companies prepare Internet professionals to develop and deploy e-business technologies. The vendor-neutral program gives participants exposure to the leading technologies in numerous subject areas. After mastering the basic concepts in the CIW Foundations series, students are prepared to pursue CIW Professional certification in job role areas such as Site Designer, e-Commerce, Application Developer, Enterprise Developer, Server Administrator, Internetworking Professional or Security Professional. Students can focus on specific job roles, or pursue the new master-level certification tracks--Master CIW Administrator, Master CIW Enterprise Developer and Master CIW Designer. Over 10,000 professionals have certified their credentials through the CIW program.
About ProsoftTraining.com
ProsoftTraining.com is a supplier of computer training content solutions for end-user and technical training. The company's ComputerPrep brand includes content for areas such as Internet, Linux, CompTIA, Cisco, Microsoft, Oracle and telecom professionals. Prosoft offers Internet certification through its industry-leading CIW certification program, creating and certifying the skills that today's e-business workforce needs to support the growth of B2B and B2C applications. The industry-validated job role designations defined in the CIW program provide a "road map" that helps individuals and companies prepare Internet professionals to develop and deploy e-business technologies. The vendor-neutral program gives participants exposure to the leading technologies in numerous subject areas. ProsoftTraining.com's Internet certification programs have the endorsement of the Association of Internet Professionals and the International Webmasters Association. Certification testing is available through the Prometric and VUE testing networks. Learn more about CIW at www.CIWcertified.com and about Prosoft and its other programs at www.ProsoftTraining.com and www.computerPREP.com.
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