Teacher Certification Programs Adapt Field Experiences as Coronavirus Closes Schools
By Carter Hanson, Staff Writer With the novel coronavirus outbreak and subsequent university and school closures, the music education program and education department have had to dramatically alter their teacher preparation programs, suspending all field experiences and observations through the end of the semester. Despite the shift online, all graduating music education majors and education students pursuing teacher certification are...
Opinion: The Longest Three-and-a-Half Years
By Carter Hanson, Columnist And now, as the lilting rhetoric of Adam Schiff fades into the monotony, Lisa Murkowski has determined she will vote against including new witnesses and documents in the Senate Impeachment Trial. Though the verdict of the Trump Trial may not be released until next week, this almost surely dooms impeachment. This outcome is not unexpected, but it was not until Murkowski declined new evidence that the...
Conversations Beneath the Cupola: College Unveils Podcast Hosted by President Bob Iuliano
By Carter Hanson, Staff Writer Gettysburg College released the first episode of the podcast Conversations Beneath the Cupola on Oct. 30, with host President Bob Iuliano. The episode featured a conversation between President Iuliano and Lawrence Bacow, the 29th President of Harvard University, about the status of the liberal arts education and its future. The show was formatted like an interview, with Iuliano asking questions of Bacow....
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...
Student Political Groups Participate in Public Policy Debate
By Carter A. Hanson, Staff Writer On Thursday, Oct. 17, the Campus Policy Debate in Mara Auditorium featured debaters among some of the political student groups on campus. The Leftist Student Collective, College Democrats, College Republicans, and the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) debated for an hour and a half on policy issues such as gun control, climate change, data privacy, e-cigarette regulations, and packing the Supreme...
