College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Social Work programs expand to meet growing need

Lena-May Haught and Wendy Bowersox want to help change a troubled world. That's the fiery passion of students in Social Work programs at GCU. Haught, […]

How GCU scored points with pandemic innovations

There were innovations aplenty as GCU dealt with the pandemic. But none of the required alterations were more visible than the cutouts in GCU Arena, […]

Faculty Focus: Molly Fleming

Math is not something to fear and is important to understand. That's the message Molly Fleming demonstrates to students in her role as a math […]

Can die-hard Iowa fans turn into Lopes? Yes!

GCU online student Lanna Thompson faced a dilemma. Both she and husband Kyle are GCU online students. But they live in Iowa, home to the […]

Faculty Focus: Dr. Afiya Burson

Dr. Afiya Burson, an Online Full-Time Faculty member in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, is passionate about advocacy, self-care and self-awareness. She shares […]

Student helps school through Texas storms, virus

Amanda Sullivan, a graduate-level School Counseling student, faced a year of COVID challenges and a Texas weather disaster in February during her practicum with characteristic […]

GCU grad key player in Rescue Mission partnership

Nathan Smith had quite a year in 2020: He earned his GCU degree, and he was named Chief Program Officer of the Phoenix Rescue Mission. […]

GCU mourns loss of a 'gentleman extraordinaire'

He dined with people who fashioned peace in Northern Ireland, yet when Dr. Val Martinez came to GCU to teach Government courses after a career […]

Students' plant knowledge sprouts at colloquium

The first day of the Kevin McClean Research Colloquium featured nine impressive presentations, but the three by students on desert plants were the talk of […]