GCU feels vindicated after spending millions of dollars to successfully defend itself against federal government allegations.

The Federal Trade Commission voted last Friday to dismiss a lawsuit against an affiliate of Grand Canyon University.

The Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously on Friday to dismiss its complaint against Grand Canyon University, Grand Canyon Education and Brian Mueller, president of GCU and CEO of GCE.

The unanimous FTC vote comes after the U.S. Department of Education dropped a multimillion-dollar fine over similar allegations.

Now that Grand Canyon Education doesn't own GCU anymore, the focus of the Phoenix company will quickly shift, according to the company's CEO, who outlined multiple areas of growth for the business.

Former president of the Apollo Group, 2006-'08, he's now CEO of Grand Canyon University, a small Christian college that investor Michael Clifford helped revive. This is the edited transcript of an ...

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