Author name: Tara de Souza

Goucher students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to read The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway over winter break as part of a community reading project. Early next semester, we community members will join together to participate in an informal, non-mandatory book discussion; dates and locations will be announced after the spring semester starts. Free

The Goucher College Library this year introduced the Applestein-Sweren Prize for book collecting, which was made possible by an endowment established this year by Betty Applestein Sweren ’52 and Dr. Edgar Sweren. The competition is meant to encourage Goucher students to read for enjoyment and to develop personal libraries throughout their lives; to appreciate the

Goucher College’s Office of the President is proud to announce the Fall 2012 Innovation Grant winners. For 14 years, the Innovation Grant Program has provided seed money to implement many exciting and effective campus projects proposed by Goucher students, faculty, and staff. Past projects include Goucher’s recycling and composting initiatives, a program to help students

In keeping with its emphasis on developing students’ global perspectives, Goucher will present a series of lectures, workshops, and other events from November 12 to 17 to celebrate International Education Week. A joint initiative of the U.S. departments of State and Education, International Education Week is a celebration of international education and exchange that promotes

Goucher fared well during the most recent college ranking season, particularly among classifications that measured such important factors as academic quality, environmental sustainability, and study abroad. Here is a brief compendium of Goucher’s inclusion in many of the most closely watched college ranking publications: ● Goucher once again has been included in the popular guide

Goucher College is presenting a free, public presentation by Shujaa Graham, an anti-death penalty activist and exonerated death row inmate, on Thursday, November 8, at 7 p.m. in Kelley Lecture Hall. Graham was born in Lake Providence, LA, where he grew up in a sharecropper family on a plantation in the segregated South of the

The newly launched Goucher Poll asked Maryland citizens for their opinions toward same-sex marriage, immigration and undocumented immigrants, pit bull “inherently dangerous” court ruling, expanded gambling, and perceptions of the most important issues facing the state. Highlights of the results regarding these most pressing issues in the state are detailed below. The poll, conducted October