As a small liberal arts college on the North Shore, Gordon College has not been without its issues. Budget cuts in 2019 resulted in the downsizing of several departments which impacted students' college career. In 2020 during the heat of the pandemic, racial tensions rise after hate crimes are committed on campus. This is the story of the class of 2022.
Oleksiy Svitelskiy is a Ukrainian physicist and is a professor of physics at Gordon College. He received his Ph.D. in experimental solid-state physics from Lehigh University. He has had several physics research papers published. He appeared in the documentary The Gordon Affair in 2021.