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To celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Emma, the Goucher College Library will host Emma in America: Jane Austen’s Novel through Two Centuries. The exhibit will spotlight one of the treasures of its world-class Jane Austen Collection: the very rare first American edition of Emma, published in Philadelphia in 1816. The exhibit […]

Goucher College is pleased to announce that Kathleen M. Anderson will be the 2015-16 Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence. Dr. Anderson is a professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University and a specialist in 19th-century British literature. She is the author of Jane Austen’s Guide to Thrift and a number of scholarly and popular essays on Austen that

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given Goucher College a $100,000 grant to support presidential leadership over the next three years. The grant focuses on supporting institutional reform that has an impact beyond specific programs. Goucher will use the funds to support projects that add high-impact practices to our first-year programs and provide more support

Goucher College once again has been included in The 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. For more than 30 years, the guide has chosen a select group of the “best and most

College-matching platform College Raptor has recognized Goucher as a regional gem college for the northeast. Regional gems are defined as high-caliber colleges and universities which receive less than 5,000 applicants a year but have a total enrollment more than 1,000. Goucher was one of 44 institutions recognized across the country. Gems for each region were

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