Author name: Tara de Souza

This summer, new students at Goucher College will read The Power of Mindful Learning in which Harvard psychology professor Dr. Ellen Langer uses her innovative theory of mindfulness to dramatically enhance the way people learn. The book is Goucher’s 2015 summer reading assignment for first-year and transfer students. Selected based on suggestions from the campus […]

Congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis (D-Ga.) will receive an honorary degree and deliver the keynote address at Goucher College’s 124th Commencement on Friday, May 22, 2015. President José Antonio Bowen will preside over the ceremony, which will begin at 10:30 a.m. on the Margaret M. Winslow Great Lawn, between the Athenaeum and Katharine

As part of Goucher College’s Commencement festivities, the “Donning of the Kente Cloth” ceremony allows students of the African diaspora and communities of color to pay tribute to their own unique heritages, experiences, and achievements. The ceremony also presents the occasion for students to pay homage to those who have paved the way for them

This year Goucher revised its search procedures for faculty, and this fall the college will welcome more new Asian, Hispanic, African American, and international faculty than in any previous year in Goucher’s history. Goucher College is welcoming these new, full-time professors from across the academic disciplines for 2015-16 academic year:   Emma Amador (Assistant Professor,

On Friday, May 8, Goucher College will break ground on a new residence hall that will begin a complete re-envisioning of how students live and learn on campus. Goucher students, faculty, staff, alumnae/i, trustees, and other community members will gather on the lawn of Froelicher Hall across from the Decker Sports and Recreation Center at

Goucher College’s Department of Theatre proudly presents “Goucher Playwrights Open Studio Readings: Volume V,” a series of readings and discussions of new, student-written plays and musicals in progress, on April 30. The works are being crafted in Professor Alvin Eng’s courses THE 237 “New Play Development Workshop” and THE 239 “Writing for the Musical Stage.”