Gettysburg College, an equal opportunity employer, complies with all applicable federal, state, local laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and admission. The College prohibits discrimination and harassment, and provides equal opportunity without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, marital/familial status, possession of a General Education Development Certificate (GED) as compared to a high school diploma, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex, age, or genetic information in all aspects of employment, educational programs, activities, and admissions. Pursuant to Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972, Gettysburg College prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex (i.e., which includes but is not limited to the prohibition of sexual misconduct and relationship violence, including sexual assault and harassment) in all of its educational programs and activities.
Gettysburg College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
The College reserves the right to make changes to the policies and procedures and will notify students accordingly.
Handbook contents
1. Student Rights and Responsibilities
A community for education provides opportunity to learn. The student, in order to make best use of that opportunity, must be free to learn. The effectiveness of the opportunity depends upon each faculty member's freedom to teach. The various agencies of the College Administration attempt to provide the instruments and the conditions, which make the opportunity possible.
In order that Gettysburg College, as a community for education, may be of greatest utility in providing the opportunity to learn, both in the formal student-teacher relationship and in less formal contexts, each of its constituent groups must have certain rights and, equally important, must exercise certain responsibilities.
The purpose of the statement, which follows, is to provide guidelines for the insurance of the rights of Gettysburg College students and for the exercise of their responsibilities as members of this community for education. Other documents deal with the rights and responsibilities of other constituencies of the College.
Free discussion, inquiry, and expression in the classroom are essential to the task of a liberal education at Gettysburg. Student performance, therefore, should be evaluated solely on the basis of academic achievement, not on opinions or conduct in matters unrelated to academic standards. Students are responsible for maintaining the academic standards established by the College and the respective instructor(s) for each course in which they are enrolled. Students have the right to know their standing and the criteria on which they are being evaluated in any course in which they are enrolled. Students have the right to be evaluated solely on the stated criteria in any course in which they are enrolled. They should never be subjected to prejudiced or capricious academic evaluation. Any student who feels he/she has been subjected to such evaluation should ask the professor involved to explain his/her grade. If not satisfied by such explanation the student may request the Chairperson of the department or the Provost to consider and resolve the issue.
- Freedom of Expression
- Academic Rights and Responsibilities – Student Records
- Governance Rights and Responsibilities
2. Academic Policies
Introduction to Academic Policies
- Accommodations for Disabilities
- Academic Level
- Academic Standing
- Cancelling of Grades
- Center for Global Education
- Class Attendance General Policies and Policies for Athletics & Other Extracurricular Activities
- Course Credit Hours
- Deans List
- Exemption from Degree Requirements
- FERPA
- Grades
- Grading System
- Graduation, Honors, and Commencement
- Honor Code
- Honor Societies
- Late Course Entry
- Midterm Reports
- Normal Progress Toward Graduation
- Registration
- Residence Requirements And Schedule Limitations
- Schedule Limitations
- Special Interest and Dual Degree Programs
- Suspension, Leaves of Absence, and Reinstatement
- Transcripts
- Transfer Credit
3. Community Standards and Conduct Procedures
- Philosophy, Jurisdiction, Implementation of community standards and the Conduct Process, Reporting a Violation of Policy, Violations of Law
- Amnesty
- Student Conduct Policies
- Overview of Conduct Resolution Process
- Sanctions
- Interim Measures
- Sanctioning Guidelines
- Appeals
- Conduct of Student Organizations
4. Other policies
Guidance for Religious Observance for Students
- Alcohol and Drug Information
- Anti-Hazing Policy
- Bathroom Access Policy
- Bias Response and Education Protocol
- Campus Solicitation & Sales Policy
- Computer Network Use Policy
- Consensual Sexual or Romantic Relationships
- Crime Reporting/Reporting of Criminal Actions or Emergencies
- Drug Policy
- Gettysburg College Official Email Address Policy
- Harassment Policy
- Information Management Policy
- Nondiscrimination Statement
- Organizational Misconduct Policy
- Policy and Guidelines for Public Expression, Invited Speakers, and Distribution of Written Materials on Campus
- Policy on Partisan Political Activity Hosted by Students and Student Organizations
- Sexual Misconduct Policy and Procedures
- Smoking Policy
- Social Event Policy
- State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA)
- Student Name Policy
- Title IX Policy and Procedures
- Vendor Sales
5. Residential policies