College to introduce new “Hourly Digest” emails

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By Benjamin Pontz, News Editor

In response to recent data from the Campus Climate Survey that showed a concerning lack of student engagement, college officials announced the creation of new “Hourly Digest” emails that will appear in students’ inboxes 24 times each day.

Other notable developments include the elimination of one’s ability to unsubscribe and mandatory weekly “Digest Quizzes” to test students’ comprehension of the emails. Students with poor scores on the quizzes will be penalized in the housing lottery and likely will have to participate in weekly community meetings to boost their campus engagement.

“We want to ensure all of our students have the most up-to-date information right at their fingertips,” explained Diana Cronkite, Deputy Assistant Coordinator for Residential & First-Year Programs and Associate Dean of College Life for Required Student Community Engagement. “That’s why we developed the hourly digest: to ensure you can have all the information you need all the time, whether you want it or not.”

Student feedback has been mixed. While one RA expressed excitement at the prospect of facilitating additional community meetings, most students shrugged and said that since the quizzes are on Friday afternoons, at least they’ll have forgotten about them by Saturday mornings.

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Author: Benjamin Pontz

Benjamin Pontz '20 served as Editor-in-Chief of The Gettysburgian from 2018 until 2020, Managing News Editor from 2017 until 2018, News Editor in the spring of 2017, and Staff Writer during the fall of 2016. During his tenure, he wrote 232 articles. He led teams that won two first place Keystone Press Awards for ongoing news coverage (once of Bob Garthwait's resignation, and the other of Robert Spencer's visit to campus) and was part of the team that wrote a first-place trio of editorials in 2018. He also received recognition for a music review he wrote in 2019. A political science and public policy major with a music minor, he graduated in May of 2020 and will pursue a master's degree in public policy on a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Manchester before enrolling in law school.

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