Spring Semester COVID-19 Update: Required Booster, Updated Testing Policy, Online Classes First Week
By Nicole DeJacimo, Managing Editor, and Phoebe Doscher, Editor-in-Chief Gettysburg College will begin classes as planned on Jan. 17, 2022, with additional testing and vaccination requirements, according to a campus-wide email from the administration. Upon arrival, in-person classes and activities will be restricted and students will be tested for COVID-19. The changes come based on the Omicron variant and the nationwide trajectory of...
Gettysburg to Sponsor Gilder Lehrman Master’s Program in American History
By Phoebe Doscher, Editor-in-Chief At the Oct. 7 faculty meeting, faculty voted to move forward with the proposed online master’s in American history program in conjunction with the Gilder Lehrman Institute (GLI). The program, aimed at high school history teachers, will be taught by scholars from around the country, and will operate under the auspices of Gettysburg College, starting in the fall of 2022. Background on the Gilder...
Note from the Editor: On Gratitude
When I think about the challenges and life changes over the past year, I’m both perplexed and proud—perplexed by the ways our world has changed, but proud of the ways we’ve shifted right along with it. At this time last year, we attempted to publish editions of the Gettysburgian magazine fully online, and by online, I mean no laid-out pages, no print copies, just articles that went on the website filed under the magazine tab. At the...
College Celebrates Midyear Graduates, Announces Commencement Date for the Class of 2022
By Phoebe Doscher, Editor-in-Chief, Gettysburg College celebrated the graduation of 31 students on Dec. 12 at the Midyear Graduates Recognition Ceremony. The ceremony recognized graduates who are expected to complete their degree requirements by December 2021 or who completed degree requirements in August 2021. During the ceremony, President Bob Iuliano, Provost Chris Zappe, and faculty speaker Mathematics Professor Benjamin Kennedy...
Ten Students Test Positive for COVID in Final Week of the Semester
By Phoebe Doscher, Editor-in-Chief On Wednesday morning, Dean of Students Anne Ehrlich alerted the campus community that in the past week, 10 students and two employees have tested positive for COVID-19. Over the entire semester, a total of 50 students and 42 employees have tested positive. The news comes alongside the latest surge of COVID cases at colleges and universities around the country; Middlebury College in Vermont moved...
