College of Humanities and Social Sciences

New Speech and Debate director walks the talk

GCU's Speech and Debate team will hit the tournament season running this year with 11 returnees and a new director, Michael Dvorak, who has coached […]

User's guide to Welcome Week: All hands on deck

Welcome Week 2017 promises to be another busy and festive time for students as they return to campus. But it’s extremely important, too. “The week […]

Don't think of him as blind – 'Big Dog' is a cowboy

Michael ‘‘Big Dog’’ Abell wasn’t always blind, but he started losing his sight at age 9 as the result of a firecracker accident. It took […]

Changing lives (including their own) at Dream Center

Summer vacation or not, GCU College of Humanities and Social Sciences counseling professors and students continue to bring group therapy sessions to sex-trade survivors sheltered […]

Speech and Debate has it together, with good reason

One of the most successful teams at GCU the last couple of years has been Speech and Debate, which has an interesting collection of personalities […]

Slideshow: Friday online commencement ceremonies

Photos by Slaven Gujic  GCU News Bureau Online students in the College of Doctoral Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences and College of Nursing […]

Kids play big role in online graduates' stories

Online students have many amazing stories of overcoming obstacles to earn their degrees. Some of them make you wonder how they ever did it — […]

Honors College completes first graduating class

Twenty-one students in the Honors College inaugural group, which began in 2013, were awarded their degrees Thursday. Breanna Naegeli, Honors College assistant dean, described the […]

A mom's walk, like Karli, leaves lasting memory

Cathy Hocking accepted a Bachelor of Arts in Communications degree Thursday at Grand Canyon University on behalf of her daughter, Karli Richardson, one of three […]