Gettysburg College President announces new public policy major

Gettysburg College President Janet Morgan Riggs '77 recently discussed the new public policy major while she was in Washington, D.C. meeting with parents and alumni.

The public policy major will serve as a second major, allowing students to combine their interests in other areas (e.g., environmental studies, health science) with an in-depth focus on policy. This addition takes advantage of the college's proximity to both the state's and nation's capitals provides easy access for students to observe public-policy decision making and to interact with those who are making public policy.

This fall, 16 Gettysburg students participated in "Inside Politics," a new semester-long mentoring and research experience provided by the Eisenhower Institute. According to political science major Daniel Dodge '12, the program offered "phenomenal" opportunities, such as meeting with U.S. Senator Bob Dole and former White House Counsel Fred Fielding '61. "By walking through the halls of Congress and meeting with people who have devoted their lives to politics, we have been able to truly go inside politics and see how it functions in real life," Daniel said.