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Goucher Hillel has hired Rachel Leavey Plotkin as its new Jewish student life coordinator and Karin Hasin as the staff’s first full-time Jewish Agency Israel fellow/Israel engagement coordinator.  Rachel is a Baltimore native and a graduate of UMBC. She served as a Jewish Campus Service Corps at Houston Hillel and has worked in Jewish informal

Faith Bailey grew up in rural southern West Virginia with her family and later attended high school in the historic, albeit insular, Appalachian town of Harpers Ferry, WV. When she decided to pursue a college education, she applied to just two schools: West Virginia University, where she would be guaranteed merit-based financial aid through that state’s

While nearly all four-year colleges and universities offer study abroad, Goucher College became and remains the only liberal arts college in the United States where 100 percent of students study abroad. Goucher’s study abroad program gives students a truly global perspective—and competitive advantage in the marketplace. This commitment to educating students to become global citizens has

Goucher College has been included in the annual college guide Fiske Guide to Colleges. The guide is a subjective but systematic collection of profiles of more than 300 colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain that was compiled by former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske. In the guide Goucher is cited

Rhoda M. Dorsey, the eighth president of Goucher College and the first woman to hold that post, passed away on May 10 in her apartment at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville, Maryland. Goucher will honor the life and work of Dr. Dorsey at a celebration on Monday, June 16, at 11 a.m. in Kraushaar