GCU First Year Experience at ACE Centers
Grand Canyon University’s (GCU) First Year Experience program provides you with support during your freshman year. We are here to help you succeed by offering opportunities to help you receive academic support, as well as grow your social relationships and professional experiences.
The First Year Experience team has six core themes, with an ultimate goal of helping you grow academically, socially and spiritually.
- Increase student-to-student interactions
- Increase faculty-to-student interactions
- Increase academic expectations and levels of academic engagement
- Increase student involvement and time on campus
- Link curricular and co-curricular activities
- Assist students by providing any necessary academic support
Mission
The First Year Experience at GCU is designed to engage, connect and empower freshman students during their first year on campus so that they transition into the college community; succeed in their coursework; and interact and participate in meaningful and purposeful academic and social experiences.
Access the First Year Experience
The First Year Experience offers a Road Map to Success to help you on your GCU journey, with everything you need to be successful, from a calendar of events to help you get involved on campus to direct links to departments.
Explore our Road Map to Success now.