Robert Iuliano
15th President of Gettysburg College
Assumed office
July 1, 2019
Preceded byJanet Morgan Riggs
Personal details
BornWatertown, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (AB)
University of Virginia (JD)

Robert W. Iuliano is an American attorney and academic administrator serving as the 15th president of Gettysburg College. Previously, he worked as the senior vice president, general counsel, and deputy to the president at Harvard University.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

Iuliano was born in Watertown, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University and earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law.[4]

Career

Upon graduating law school, he held a judicial clerkship and worked as a federal prosecutor before joining the counsel's office at Harvard University. In addition to his administrative role at Harvard, Iuliano taught various seminar classes at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.[5]

In January 2019, Gettysburg College announced that Iuliano would succeed Janet Morgan Riggs to become the college's 15th president. He assumed office in July 2019.[6]

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Pennsylvania, Iuliano designated a one-week lockdown period for all students at Gettysburg College in September 2020.[7][8] Iuliano also required all upperclassmen to return home for the fall semester, being the first American college to implement such a measure.[9]

In October, 2023, Iuliano's provost Jamila Bookwala announced the closure of The Gettysburg Review, a highly-regarded literary journal based at Gettysburg College. The journal's editors claimed that Iuliano and Bookwala did not understand the purpose of the journal or its unique value to Gettysburg students, to the college's reputation, and to the wider literary community. Moreover, the editors claimed that the journal consistently fulfilled the college's revenue expectations, and that Iuliano had never approached them to discuss any specific concerns, prior to making the decision to close the nationally-renowned journal. According to the editors, Iuliano did not attend the meeting to deliver the news that the journal would be closed and the editors would lose their jobs: "The President, Bob Iuliano, wasn’t even there. He sent his hatchet person [Bookwala] to do this work." The journal's editors raised suspicions that Kennedy & Company, a management consulting firm, may have been involved in the decision to cut the journal. Faculty from the Gettysburg English Department, as well as students and alumni who had served as interns at the Review, and the wider literary community, spoke out against Iuliano's decision, questioning his commitment to equity and liberal-arts education.[10][11][12][13][14]

References

  1. ↑ Mangala, Gauri; Pontz, Benjamin (January 30, 2019). "10 Fast Facts About the 15th President of Gettysburg College, Robert Iuliano". The Gettysburgian. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Iuliano to lead Gettysburg College". Harvard Gazette. Harvard University. January 30, 2019. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Universities Place General Counsel in More Senior Roles". Yahoo Finance. Yahoo!. February 1, 2019. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ "Biography of Robert W. Iuliano - President's Office - Gettysburg.edu". www.gettysburg.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-15.
  5. ↑ Kaplan, Robert (November 2009). "Wearing Harvard Crimson". The New England Super Lawyer. SuperLawyers.com. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  6. ↑ Doscher, Phoebe; Pontz, Benjamin; Mangala, Gauri (February 1, 2019). "Iuliano Will Replace Riggs as President". The Gettysburgian. Retrieved August 25, 2019.
  7. ↑ Pao, Maureen (September 4, 2020). "As COVID-19 Cases Rise, Gettysburg College Puts All Students On Lockdown". NPR. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
  8. ↑ Elfrink, Tim. "One college's students are on covid-19 dorm lockdown. They can only leave for food and bathrooms". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-12-30.
  9. ↑ Miller, Allie (September 5, 2020). "Gettysburg College sends most students home after mandatory quarantine". Philly Voice. Retrieved December 30, 2021.
  10. ↑ Montag, Madison (2023-10-04). "Gettysburg College ends award-winning literary publication of 35 years". pennlive. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  11. ↑ Rinehart, Hannah (2023-10-05). "Opinion: The End of the Gettysburg Review". The Gettysburgian. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  12. ↑ Van Landingham, Corey (2023-10-05). "Opinion: A Letter to the Administration". The Gettysburgian. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  13. ↑ Alonso, Johanna. "Gettysburg College Shutters Acclaimed Literary Journal". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
  14. ↑ Kindley, Evan (October 12, 2023). "Why is Gettysburg College Giving Up on 'The Gettysburg Review'?". Chronicle of Higher Education.
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