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Sam Goldberg ’17 visited multiple Admitted Students Days at multiple schools during his college search, but Goucher stood out in an interesting way. “At the other schools I went to, it was usually some guys in business suits directing traffic,” he said. “I got here, and the [admissions] ambassadors were singing SpongeBob songs from the […]

Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer gave a controversial, but very powerful, lecture at Goucher in 1970. Her talk is now digitized and available to the public for the first time through the Goucher College Library. Click here for more information, and here to hear her still-relevant words.

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.”

A newly digitized speech by civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer is now available to the public for the first time through the Goucher College Library. Hamer was a black sharecropper from Mississippi who joined the voter registration movement in 1962 and became a fiery and respected voice for civil rights. She is especially well

Goucher College once again has been included in The Princeton Review’s annual guide to the most environmentally responsible colleges. The Princeton Review’s Guide to 353 Green Colleges: 2015 Edition profiles colleges with the most exceptional commitments to sustainability based on their academic offerings and career preparation for students, campus policies, initiatives, and activities. The Princeton Review

Two-hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. This legacy of discrimination adds up, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ major Atlantic cover story “The Case for Reparations” ignited the long-dormant national conversation of how to repay African Americans for generations of institutional racism. Due to personal health issues, Ta-Nehisi

Sculptor David Page will visit Goucher on Thursday, April 16, at 7 p.m. in Van Meter Room G07. The Goucher College Art and Art History Department is hosting Page as the Nancy G. Unobskey Visiting Artist in Modern and Contemporary Art. This event is free and open to the public. Born in Cape Town, South

Goucher College is commemorating two important milestones in the fight for civil rights for individuals with disabilities with a panel discussion that will be held on Tuesday, April 28, at 7 p.m. in the Batza Room of the Ungar Athenaeum. This April 28 is the 38th anniversary of the signing of Section 504 of the

In the new exhibit, Unfriendly Skies: Birds, Buildings, and Collisions, 17 artists investigate bird deaths in Baltimore. Rose Anderson, Sandy Anderson, Miranda Brandon, Stephanie Garmey, Aaron Heinsman , Brian Henry, Bonnie Crawford Kotula, Ursula Marcum, Lisa Moren, Timothy Nohe, Jenny O’Grady, Lynne Parks, Ben Piwowar, Nicole Shiflet, Nick Clifford Simko, Chris Siron, and Van Wensil

Goucher Hillel will host HaDag Nahash, a popular Israeli hip hop/funk band, Monday, April 27, at 7 p.m. in Kraushaar Auditorium. The community concert is part of the band’s “Time to Wake Up” tour.  Doors open at 6 p.m. College students at area colleges may attend for free, and community members may buy tickets for