Below is a list of the current opportunities within each Pathway, new experiences will be added over time.
Year 1: Introductory Experiences
- Contribute to a constructive team climate by demonstrating accountability, sharing ideas, and engaging with differing viewpoints.
- Build self-awareness of intercultural competence, values and beliefs, talents and strengths, and areas of growth through self-reflection and feedback.
- Join and actively participate in a student organization or athletic team
- Join and actively participate in a local community organization
- Participate in Ascent (Pre-Orientation outdoor program)
- Participate in a Garthwait Leadership Center group development workshop
- Participate in the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute
- Participate in a Garthwait Leadership Center Challenge Course experience
- Complete and reflect on the CliftonStrengths assessment
- Regularly participate in a Student Senate Committee
- Participate in the Community GIGs program as a first-year student
- Participate in Eisenhower Institute’s Foundations of Strategy and Leadership Seminar
- Participate in Eisenhower Institute’s Democracy Week and related campus-wide events
Year 2 and 3: Exploratory Experiences
- Help a team move forward by completing all assigned tasks, constructively building upon or synthesizing the ideas of others, and practicing group facilitation skills.
- Address conflict directly and constructively, helping to manage it in a way that strengthens cohesiveness, belonging, and future effectiveness.
- Build strong interpersonal connections with students who are different from themselves.
- Employment on or off campus
- Participate in the Garthwait Leadership Center Group Facilitation Fellowship experience
- Complete the Leadership Certificate
- Serve as an officer in a student organization
- Actively participate in SAIL (Student Athlete Impact Leader)
- Participate in the Cross-Disciplinary Science Institute (X-SIG)
- Participate in a multi-day Garthwait Leadership Center outdoor trip
- Serve on the executive board of a music ensemble
- Participate in an intensive all-day Garthwait Leadership Center Challenge Course Workshop as part of a class, team or organization
- Serve as a Senate Committee Chair or Affinity Group Leader
- Participate in the Greek Emerging Leaders Program
- Participate on an organization’s competition team (Model UN, Quizbowl, Mock Trial, etc.)
- Participate in a student organization production or performance (performer or performance support)
- Serve as an Orientation Leader
- Collaborate with a team of peers and a community employer partner through the Community GIGs program
- Participate in the Eisenhower Leadership Conference
- Participate in Eisenhower Institute’s Gender and Leadership Program
- Serve on the Eisenhower Institute Student Advisory Committee
Year 4: Consequential Experiences
- Proactively help and empower team members to complete their assigned tasks and improve their ability through coaching and mentoring.
- Manage a complex, strategic project or organization from start to finish.
- Learn new ways of adapting and working with others.
- Serve as a Peer Learning Associate
- Captain an athletic team
- Work as a Leadership Mentor or Outdoor Facilitator
- Serve as an Immersion Project Leader
- Serve in a senior leadership role in a student organization
- Serve as the coordinator within a department or student organization responsible for planning a large-scale program
- Direct, choreograph, or otherwise coordinate a student organization’s public production or performance
- Serve in a supervisory role through a student employment opportunity
- Serve on an institutional committee as a student representative (SLC, Sustainability, PSAC, etc.)
- Plan and execute an aspect of Eisenhower Institute’s Gender and Leadership program
- Serve as a Residential Student Staff Member
- Implement a Greek Emerging Leaders Impact on Community project
- Lead a team of peers through the Community GIGs program
- Complete Eisenhower Institute’s Strategy and Leadership in Transformational Times Program
- Complete Center for Global Education’s Global Leaders of Gettysburg College Program
- Serve as a mentor to an incoming international student