Engaging with Intellectual Wellness at Gettysburg College
- Clubs & Organizations: There are many clubs and organizations at Gettysburg College to support your intellectual wellness.
- Eisenhower Institute: Empowering young leaders to tackle society’s most challenging public policy issues in real-time.
- Internships: These opportunities are a great way to connect what you learn in the classroom to the professional workplace.
- Research opportunities: Students have the opportunity to engage with and conduct meaningful, hands-on research alongside faculty inside and outside the classroom.
- Library Services: Students have access to many different Intellectual Wellness resources including The Cupola - Gettysburg College’s institutional repository, which provides a platform for students to share their scholarly and creative work with the world. Research workshops – focused, topic–specific 30–minute workshops that help students through many academic challenges. Special Collections and College Archives – which regularly exhibits documents, photographs, and artifacts from its collections to link the history of the Gettysburg College community to larger societal issues and historical events.
- Center for Student Success: The Center for Student Success supports students throughout their educational journey, working closely with faculty and other campus partners to remove barriers to students’ academic and personal success.
- Sunderman Conservatory: A dedicated place for music inside a liberal arts college, a conservatory embedded in a rich intellectual community.
- Music Ensembles: The Sunderman Conservatory of Music offers a full range of music ensembles -- choral, band, orchestra and jazz. Musically speaking, there is something for everyone.
- Garthwait Leadership Center: Three GLC programs address this dimension specifically. Participants in the Leadership Certificate work in small groups to help an on-campus partner with a current challenge. Participants in the Community GIGs program also work in groups to present ideas for complex needs of local non-profit organizations. Additionally, participants in the Group Facilitation Fellowship learn group development through dynamic small group low and high rope activities. We also provide custom-designed workshops which use problem solving strategies in their design, in the classroom or on the Challenge Course.
- Pathways: Knowledge and enduring skills—the anchors of the Gettysburg Approach—are practiced and deepened within our Guided Pathways and supported by your Personal Advising Team. This holistic and intentional approach to education ensures that every experience on campus—in the classroom and beyond—matters.
- Center for Public Service: The Center for Public Service engages students, community members, faculty and staff to facilitate partnerships, education, critical thinking and informed action. Through these alliances, we aim to foster social justice by promoting personal, institutional and community change.
- Center for Career Engagement: Through Student Employment Services, experiential programs, and internships, students practice and enhance enduring skills that can be integrated with the academic curriculum.
- International Student Services: We hold one on one sessions with students that seek resources for graduate school and long-term career planning. We help them navigate resources on campus and through self-help guides to explore difficult questions they may have when it comes to their academic dilemmas.