College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Police negotiator quells crisis with grad student's counseling wisdom

Photos by Ralph Freso Enzo Ortiz was called to an all-too-familiar scene in his job as a crisis intervention detective and negotiator for the Phoenix Police […]

Counseling faculty shares expertise at national counselor education conference

A team of Grand Canyon University counseling department faculty and a GCU doctoral student in counselor education and supervision presented at the 2025 Association for […]

She wanted to flip houses, but a D.C. trip flipped the script for public policy major

Grand Canyon University student Riley Swedberg wanted to flip houses, but then a trip to Washington, D.C., changed what she wanted to do with her […]

Graduate takes unexpected path to 'be that person' who helps refugees

Photos by Ralph Freso / Slideshow / Livestream Her mom said it best while watching Dylan Vanderleest merge into graduates lining up for fall commencement […]

Graduate finds a fascinating life 'outside my own head' after traumatic brain injury

Photos by Ralph Freso Rafael Guerrero’s mom says her son always carries a little notepad in his back pocket. He’s afraid he will lose his […]

A class that communicates in the 'real world'

When semester-ending project presentations roll out in early December at Grand Canyon University, it’s not all bloviating on theory. Communications instructor Reka Vicsacsan’s Communications Campaigns […]

Hundreds of GCU social work students offer a helping hand across U.S.

It started with an idea last year that spread across the country to hundreds of Grand Canyon University online social work students. They went into […]

LOPES Academy participant is more than mainstream, he's a standout Havoc

Last year, Evan McKee was helping lead the student section at a basketball game, similar to his role as Havocs president at Midnight Madness earlier […]

Day on writing shows value of words ... in so many words

Photos by Ralph Freso / Slideshow “One time in another universe …” Thus began the progressive collaboration, where one writer’s sentence built off the last […]