Engaging with Social Wellness at Gettysburg College
- Center for Career Engagement - connectGettysburg: Is the College’s official online engagement, networking, and mentoring platform. Alumni, students, parents, friends of the College, and employees connect and reconnect with each other, provide career advice to students and alumni, grow their own professional network, share and pursue career opportunities, and learn more about events and ways to get involved.
- 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.
- Office of Multicultural Engagement: The Office of Multicultural Engagement promotes an inclusive campus culture, one where students are encouraged to engage through participation in initiatives and programs which stress the value of diversity at Gettysburg College. Through campus programming, student engagement, and cultural immersion, the office seeks to create distinctive opportunities for healthy discourse, allowing students to feel empowered sharing aspects of their own diversity, which will benefit their cultural competency.
- Residential Education: The mission of the Office of Residential Education is to empower students to actively engage with the Gettysburg College community by fostering a safe and inclusive environment, supporting developmental transitions, offering opportunities to learn and grow, and strategically managing residential communities.
- Office of Student Activities & Greek Life: The Office of Student Activities & Greek Life provides opportunities to engage in diverse co-curricular programs rooted in institutional values to enrich the students' social experience and create an inclusive campus community.
- EngageGettysburg: The official campus community platform at Gettysburg College. Use EngageGettysburg to find activities, workshops, and events on campus.
- Campus Recreation: Campus Recreation promotes healthy lifestyle choices and social interactions in an environment that values individual differences. Campus Recreation sponsors and supports club sports, intramural sports, and the use of the Ortenzio Fitness Room and Bullets Pool for all students.
- International Student Services: Each month we hold Birthday Parties to recognize and invite students to a safe space to celebrate themselves and each other. Students connect with each other and get a chance to step away from their academic pressure and enjoy a light evening of cake and relaxation. We also hold Workshops on a variety of topics including dating and relationship to promote healthy boundaries, how to combat loneliness, and how to navigate breaks to help student manage stress and loneliness when they miss their family and friends in a new country.
- Identity based clubs and Organizations: There are many clubs and organizations at Gettysburg College. Find one that interests and supports your social wellness.
- Garthwait Leadership Center: In all our programs, we facilitate "connection before content" through walk-in activities, check-in questions, and group development strategies. Formal programs include: Ascent, Outdoor Trips, the Leadership Certificate, the Group Facilitation Fellowship, the Eisenhower Leadership Conference, and the January Leadership Expedition. We also provide custom-designed workshops on topics related to group development and conflict transformation in the classroom or on the Challenge Course.
- Sexual Respect and Title IX office: Support for reported misconduct- This service allows for those who have experienced some sort of interpersonal harm to come to an informal resolution with the person who caused the harm. It is a voluntary process that both parties would agree to move forward with. Consent Fair- Teaches the importance of consent to students while also connecting them to on and off campus resources. Various Workshops and Presentations by request or scheduled programmatically that focus on consent and healthy relationships.
- Library Services: The library hosts regular opportunities for students to gather and get a break from their studies with programs like Crafternoon, 3@3, #BookTalk, and more!