Before You Arrive

The Dickinson Gateway is an online portal for information and services for the college community. As you prepare to come to Dickinson, you will use the Gateway to access your Dickinson email and obtain news and information about preparing for Orientation and your first year at Dickinson. As you progress through your college career, the information and services you access through the Gateway will change. The Gateway allows Dickinson to deliver information and services targeted to your specific roles and activities at the college. 

Consider Dickinson Gateway your hub for getting to several software platforms you will use at Dickinson.

Your Dickinson Gateway username and password are on your application status page. If you encounter difficulties accessing or using the Dickinson Gateway, contact the Library & Information Services Helpdesk at 717-245-1000 or helpdesk@dickinson.edu. The college protects your username and password; we must verify your identity via phone or email. We will only give this information to the individual student, not those calling on their behalf. 

Other tools & resources

We’ll be directing you to some different and important tools and resources to prepare for your Dickinson experience. Here’s what you need to know:

• Email: You should have received (or will receive very soon!) instructions on accessing your new Dickinson email account. You must check this account often, as necessary information, including weekly emails, will be sent only to that email address from this point forward. Contact helpdesk@dickinson.edu with any email-related questions.
• Navigate: A tool that will guide you on your academic path from Orientation through graduation - explore this app, as there are very cool resources like information about offices on campus to support you, even providing walking instructions to get there.  Also, check out your Journey to Dickinson, study buddies, and how to get information by virtually raising your hand! Download Navigate from your device’s app store. Search for Dickinson in the dropdown menu and log in with your Dickinson network login. For the desktop version, go to https://dickinson.navigate.eab.com and log in with your Dickinson network login. Email orientation@dickinson.edu with any questions.
• Orientation Website: Check here for everything you need to know about your first few days on campus! Explore FAQs, register for our Pre-Orientation: Explore More programs, find information regarding advising and placement tests, and more.
• Engaged (desktop) / CORQ (app): This is the home for everything related to the campus calendar of events, clubs, student organizations and events. Learn more about the many opportunities Dickinson has to get involved.
• Class of 2029 Instagram: Follow to stay connected to your classmates and the Dickinson community! Additional social media platforms are available at dickinson.edu/socialmedia.

With so much to do before you arrive at Dickinson, we want to help you keep track of everything with this list of important dates and deadlines. You will use Navigate (a campus platform) to keep track of those items. Open the site to see "Your Journey to Dickinson."

The following is a sample list of what to expect.  Don't worry; we will pace it out for you so you don't have to do everything all at once!

• Accommodations Request (if relevant)
• Housing & Food Agreement & Roommate Preference Form
• New Student Advising Form
• Emergency Contact Information
• Media Relations Form
• Placement Tests
• Religious, Secular & Spirituality Preference Form
• Music Background Information
• Health Forms
• Active Intruder/Assailant Awareness
• START Program
• Academic Integrity Online Course

You will find that Dickinson is a dynamic and engaging place for learning. Our priority is to assist you in taking full advantage of the extraordinary opportunities that await you. Your intellectual and personal development, and that of your peers, is the cornerstone of a partnership with faculty and staff that will last during your years here and beyond. It is an exciting journey on which we embark together.

Your physical and emotional health, now and throughout your life, will serve as a critical foundation for developing your intellect and creativity. As always, your commitment to yourself comes with a shared commitment to the health and welfare of others. Just as you have throughout your life, you will have a special opportunity to impact the lives of your peers in positive and productive ways, and we are committed to helping you do so. 

Within your "Journey to Dickinson", we require every new incoming Dickinson student to complete the Academic Integrity Online Course, START Courses (a series of modules addressing sexual assault awareness and prevention and alcohol and drug awareness), Active Intruder/Assailant Awareness Course, and Alcohol eCheckup To Go Course. You'll see the deadlines for these courses are in August and September.  These are not over-simplified lectures; they are thoughtful, well-researched educational programs for adults committed to thinking about their life choices and values. These programs will assist you in making informed, mature decisions. 

Part of the privilege of attending Dickinson College includes adhering to our Community Standards, including academic integrity principles. Students are expected to show respect for the ideas of others when using them to create original works by citing appropriately. Plagiarizing the work of others is prohibited and may be harshly penalized.

To help educate our community about this topic, all first-year students and other students new to Dickinson must complete an online tutorial regarding academic integrity and plagiarism. Students who do not complete this instruction by the deadline will have a hold placed on their accounts, preventing them from registering for next semester’s courses.

Students receive credit only after completing the tutorial, answering all questions, and clicking the “Submit” button on the last page.

QUESTIONS?

Dickinson College is deeply committed to the health, welfare, and ultimate success of our community members. For more information about the Academic Integrity Tutorial and other information for first-year students, please see our Information for First-Year Students online guide. Questions about academic integrity may be directed to ask@dickinson.libanswers.com.

New students must complete the START Learning Program for Higher Education before the start of their first semester. The START Program is a series of well-researched educational programs for adults committed to considering their life choices and values.  

The START Program is an online program that includes modules aimed at reducing campus sexual assault, dating/domestic violence, and stalking; empowering bystanders of potentially violent situations to intervene before the violence occurs.
 
The START Program is built as one of your steps in the Journey to Dickinson.  The modules may also be accessed at the following links:

• Healthy Relationships & Dating Violence
• Harassment & Respect Among Peers
• Lasting Choices: Protecting Our Campus From Sexual Assault 

Questions related to the START Program should be directed to devwell@dickinson.edu