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The Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College is pleased to welcome the cartoonist and novelist Lynda Barry as the Fall 2013 Visiting Author. Barry will read and discuss her work and sign books on Wednesday September 25, at 8 p.m. in the Hyman Forum of Goucher’s Athenaeum. This event is free and open […]

Frank Bruni, the New York Times’ first openly gay op-ed columnist, will present “A New Day: Same-Sex Marriage in America” on Monday, September 30, at 8 p.m. in Hyman Forum of Goucher College’s Athenaeum. This event is open to the public, but tickets are required for all attendees. Tickets are free for Goucher students, faculty,

After a $25 million renovation of its former library, Goucher College is ready to unveil its new state-of-the-art academic center. There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony and official opening of the new Academic Center at Julia Rogers on Saturday, October 5, at 10:15 a.m. This event is free and open to the public. After the ceremony, the

The 410 members of Goucher’s entering first-year class were chosen from 3,461 applications. Members of the Class of 2017 are coming to Goucher from 359 high schools in 39 states, the District of Columbia, and eight countries beyond the United States. Nearly 60 percent of the first-year students applied through the Early Decision and Early

Goucher once again has been included in The Princeton Review’s annual guide ‘The Best 378 Colleges.’ The college also was named the No. 1 school with the “Most Popular Study Abroad Program.”

On July 25, the Goucher Vagabonds will be hitting the road, traveling between Northern Virginia and Maine to help connect the college’s alumnae/i with one another and with their alma mater, and they will welcome first-year students to the Goucher community. The Vagabonds Program is a joint effort of Goucher’s Development & Alumnae/i Affairs and the

This summer, new students at Goucher College will read Colum McCann’s sweeping and radical social novel Let the Great World Spin. The book is Goucher’s 2013 summer reading assignment for first-year and transfer students. Selected based on suggestions from faculty and staff, Let the Great World Spin will spark discussion among new students, staff, and

Opening Ceremony Tuesday, September 17 6 p.m. | Pinkard Room, the Athenaeum The Department of Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures’ Florencia Cortes-Conde, associate professor and chair, and Frances Ramos Fontan, director of Goucher’s Futuro Latino Learning Center, will lead a short video presentation of “Una Mejor Vida: Latino Voices on Survival and Transformation.” This bilingual Spanish-English