Gettysburg College Spends Less on Instruction than Peers
By Carter Hanson, Katie Oglesby & Benjamin Pontz Gettysburg College spends less per student on instruction than any of its closest peer institutions, an analysis based on data from The Chronicle of Higher Education conducted by The Gettysburgian shows. Annual tuition (excluding room and board) for the 2016-17 academic year, the year for which The Chronicle compiled a comprehensive data set, was $50,860. That year, the college...
From the Editor: Inside This Issue
A Note from Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Pontz: This marks the second edition of The Gettysburgian’s new magazine. I opened the first edition by printing some quotes that appeared in The Gettysburgian’s second-ever print edition (back in 1897) in which readers responded to what they saw in the first. I thought it appropriate to share a few comments we received on our first magazine here. “I just read the first edition of The Gettysburgian...
Extended Power Outage Cancels Morning Classes, Causes Confusion on Heels of Reading Days
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief A power outage shut down the campus computing network, led to the cancellation of classes before noon, and created a de facto extra half reading day at Gettysburg College on Wednesday. The blackout began around 1:00 a.m. and ended in most areas of campus about nine hours later, shortly after 10:00 a.m. Power was fully restored to areas with lingering outages by 1:45 p.m. The campus network —...
Faculty Meeting News and Notes: October 3, 2019
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief The Gettysburg College faculty dispensed with its agenda in a mere 22 minutes on Thursday afternoon. During that time, it passed a motion to approve a restructured major from the Management Department entitled “Business, Organizations & Management.” The faculty spent two entire meetings last spring debating a proposal from the Management Department to add a dual major in business...
“The reality is that we’re exclusive.” Reflections on the SCOGL Report
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief The Student Senate Committee on Greek Life (SCOGL) released a 15-page report in June—more than 60 days past the deadline—and had one overarching recommendation: continue the committee. The report concluded that more students ought to be interviewed and a systematic survey ought to be conducted in order to get a better read on the pulse of the campus. Despite the committee’s charge to “combine the...
