This academic year, the German department welcomed award-winning writer Utz Rachowski to their staff. With a unique cultural background, Rachowski shared his first hand account as a political prisoner in East Germany with Gettysburg students. Rachowski designed German 306, Introduction to German Literature, to reflect his extensive knowledge on the subject of German social and political systems...

From presidential platforms to public perceptions, no political stone was left unturned after experts from Gettysburg College’s Eisenhower Institute (EI) spoke to more than a hundred alumni, parents, students, and guests at the Union League Club in Philadelphia.

U.S. Presidential Leadership in Transformational Times was the topic of the inaugural Gettysburg Great Symposi...

46,000 steps.

That’s how many the average person takes when running in a marathon.

What makes someone want to accomplish such a feat? Graham Kimmerer ’08 can tell you – he ran in this year’s Boston Marathon.

But he wasn’t the only Bullet in the race – Kimmerer met two other Gettysburg alumni, separated by more than a decade, while trai...

No American college is better or more appropriately suited to offering exemplary programs focused on the American Civil War than Gettysburg, a college that is immersed in the history of the war era.

The College's rich historical context creates the backdrop for three distinctive Civil War programs:

• The Civil War Era Studies Program
• The Gettysburg Semester
• The Civil War Institute

Civil War Programs

The Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College is a distinguished center for leadership and public policy based in Washington, D.C. and Gettysburg, honoring the legacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that develops and sponsors civic discourse on significant issues of domestic and international public policy.

The Institute provides both top-level dialogue among policy-makers and a premier learning experience for undergraduates. Its activities include research and scholarship, education and outreach, and recognition and celebration.

The Eisenhower Institute

The Sunderman Conservatory of Music at Gettysburg College combines a superb music tradition and strengths as one of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges.

The distinctive vibrancy of a Sunderman Conservatory education results from three things coming together: a diverse and vital music environment, a culturally rich and supportive atmosphere for all of the performing and visual arts, and an energetic college community full of intense involvement in a broad spectrum of pursuits.

Offering three majors, bachelor of music in performance, bachelor of arts in music, and bachelor of science in music education, the Conservatory's curriculum encompasses a wide variety of music genres and traditions and opportunities to perform with more than a dozen vocal and instrumental ensembles.

The Conservatory was founded by a $15.7 million gift from 1919 Gettysburg graduate Dr. F. William Sunderman.

The Sunderman Conservatory

The Majestic Theater is home to the Jennifer and David LeVan Performing Arts Center, a world-class facility featuring an 816-seat theater, two cinemas, and art gallery., offering pre- and post-performance dining with a swanky, 1950s ambience.

The 83-year-old theater reopened in Nov. 2005 after a $16-million renovation, invigorating the cultural community in Gettysburg. Owned and operated by the College, the Majestic offers a diverse program of Broadway shows, classical and popular music, dance, comedy, children's theater, film classics, and other attractions.

The Majestic Theater

The Gettysburg Review is one of the nation's premier literary journals, publishing fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews of the highest quality by some of the world's finest writers since 1988. Published by Gettysburg College, The Gettysburg Review is noted for the highest quality writing, editing, and design.

The Gettysburg Review has won many prizes and awards, including a Best New Journal award, four Best Journal Design awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, and a PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Editing. More than 80 short stories, poems and essays first appearing in the journal have been reprinted in prize anthologies, such as The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Essays, The Best American Poetry, and The Pushcart Prize: Best of Small Presses. Contributors have included such luminaries as E.L. Doctorow, Rita Dove, Donald Hall, and Joyce Carol Oates, as well as emerging writers Ginger Strand, Scott Schrader, Kellie Wells, and Charles Yu, among others.

The Gettysburg Review

The Garthwait Leadership Center (GLC), through collaborative partnerships, helps students and alumni to develop leadership skills through a set of intellectual and experiential opportunities. Students and alumni use these opportunities to identify and reflect on their passions, and learn how to apply leadership skills ethically to make a positive impact.

The Garthwait Leadership Center's name recognizes the alumnus who has endowed the program, Robert Garthwait, Jr. '82, a trustee of the College and CEO of Cly-Del Manufacturing in Waterbury, Conn.