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Nearly 150 years ago, poet, activist, and black Baltimorean Frances E.W. Harper took the platform in Union Square, New York, to discuss voting rights and segregation of public transportation. She began her speech with a rather private story about how her husband had died suddenly, heavily in debt, leaving her alone to provide for her […]

When Laura Tims ’14 came to Goucher at age 18, she knew she wanted to be a writer. But she didn’t have an exact plan to make that happen, and, she admits, she also had “no backup plan.” By the time she graduated, she had a two-book deal with HarperCollins; her first novel will be

          Chionque Mines, a senior at Goucher, had the distinct honor of introducing President Barack Obama at the second College Opportunity Day of Action in Washington, DC. This event focused on building college networks to promote student completion, invest in high school counselors, create K-16 partnerships around college readiness, and increase the

Leading up to the 2015 bicentennial anniversary of Jane Austen’s Emma, Goucher College will be providing an open-access edition of a very rare American version of the beloved novel. Goucher—home to the largest Austen collection in North America—has one of just six copies of the rare 1816 Philadelphia edition of Emma, the first and only of Austen’s works

Goucher’s men’s soccer team went from not winning a Landmark Conference game for two years in a row, to becoming a playoff team, all within a span of four years. Bryan Laut, the team’s head coach, calls this “a testament to the hard work of a great support staff and a special group of players

The Goucher Poll asked Maryland residents for their perspectives regarding Maryland state parks. Marylanders were asked about park use, activities, goals, and how the Maryland Park Service could best inform them about parks. Use and Visitation of Maryland State Parks The 72 percent of residents who visited a Maryland state park at least once during the

There are thousands of Goucher students, faculty, alumnae/i, and staff. This makes for a whole lot of different experiences and personalities scattered around campus … and the globe. Now all members of the college’s extended community can connect and see one another’s unique points of view about Goucher with the social media account “This is

Goucher College became the first college in the nation to allow students to submit video applications as the decisive factor for admission. The launch of the Goucher Video Application (GVA), last September, created a big stir both in higher education circles and in national print and broadcast media, including The New York Times, NPR, PBS,

Author and historian Robert Beachy, Ph.D., will lecture on his new book, Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity, on Wednesday, December 10, at 5:30 p.m. in the Batza Room of the Ungar Athenaeum. The book examines the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and

Martin Sweidel is Goucher College’s new senior vice president for strategic initiatives, effective November 3. Sweidel came to Goucher from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, where he had served as the associate dean for administrative affairs since 2007. He came to SMU in 1986 as a music faculty member, teaching