Nichols Delivers Scharf Lecture
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief Historian David Nichols delivered the Henry M. Scharf Lecture Wednesday evening in the Penn Hall Lyceum to an audience of about 35, many of whom were community members associated with the Eisenhower Society. Nichols, whose body of work on President Dwight D. Eisenhower has been credited with the 34th president’s recent ascent from the middle of the pack to the upper echelon in historians’...
Student Success Task Force Issues Report Urging Systematic Approach, Greater Faculty Engagement
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief Late in the spring 2017 semester, three senior college administrators commissioned a task force to study student success at Gettysburg College and make recommendations to improve student retention. In March, that task force released a report on its work, and, in September, task force co-chair Dr. Brendan Cushing-Daniels, Harold G. Evans Chair of Eisenhower Leadership Studies and Associate Professor...
Faculty Meeting News and Notes: October 4, 2018
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief The Gettysburg College faculty held its second business meeting of the year last Thursday and had a fairly light business agenda before reports from President Janet Morgan Riggs and Provost Christopher Zappe. Alumni Professor of Mathematics Darren Glass also gave a report on the first-year seminar program, which he directs. Glass: Time to Make FYS Participation Mandatory Dr. Darren Glass, who has...
College Unable to Conduct ‘Proper Investigation’ Into DUI, Closes Inquiry Without Charges Against Fraternity
The TL;DR On Oct. 29, 2017, a 19-year old Gettysburg College sophomore flipped his car on W. Lincoln Avenue shortly before 2:30 a.m. He had left from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, where he said he had been drinking previously. After the police concluded its investigation, which resulted in bringing five charges against the individual, the college began an investigation of its own, but it was unable to find evidence to...
Faculty Meeting News and Notes: August 30, 2018
By Benjamin Pontz, Editor-in-Chief The agenda for the semester’s first meeting of the Gettysburg College faculty, held Thursday afternoon, was largely informational and celebratory, and no official action was taken during the hour-long affair. Gettysburg College President Janet Morgan Riggs opened the meeting with some introductory remarks, new chair of the college’s Board of Trustees David Brennan ’75, former CEO of...
