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 sharing ideas and demonstrating accountability. Engage with viewpoints different from one’s own.
- 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 a Garthwait Leadership Center Challenge Course experience
- Complete and reflect on the CliftonStrengths assessment
- Regularly participate in a Student Senate Committee
- Participate in an Eisenhower Institute campus event
Year 2 and 3: Exploratory Experiences
Help a team move forward by, practicing group facilitation skills, building upon or synthesizing the ideas of others, and/or practicing group facilitation skills. Learn new ways of adapting and working with others.
- 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
- 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)xxxx
- Serve as an Orientation Leader
- Collaborate with a team of peers and a community employer partner through the Community GIGs program
- Participate in a multi-day Eisenhower Institute program focused on Leadership, Teamwork, and Collaboration
Year 4: Consequential Experiences
Manage a complex, strategic project or organization from start to finish. Build interpersonal connections with students who are different from oneself.
- Serve as a Peer Learning Associate
- Serve as a captain of 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.)
- Serve as a Residential Student Staff Member
- Implement a Greek Emerging Leaders Impact on Community project
- Collaborate with a team of peers and a community employer partner through the Community GIGs program as a repeat participant in a leadership capacity
- 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