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The Goucher Poll asked Marylanders for their perspectives regarding the job approval and favorability ratings of President Barack Obama, senators Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski, the U.S. Congress, Governor Martin O’Malley, and the Maryland General Assembly. Citizens also were asked their opinions about the Maryland heath exchange website and their overall views of the new […]

The Goucher Poll asked Maryland citizens for their opinions toward publicly funded campaigns, campaign contributions, citizens’ sources of news, and gubernatorial traits and characteristics. Highlights of the results regarding these important issues are detailed below. Public Funding and Campaign Finance Marylanders were divided in their opinion toward publicly funded campaigns. Forty-five percent oppose having an electoral system in

The Board of Trustees of Goucher College is pleased to announce that José Antonio Bowen—a national award-winning educator and author of Teaching Naked—will become the liberal arts college’s 11th president, effective July 1, 2014. Bowen will come to Goucher from Southern Methodist University’s (SMU) Meadows School of the Arts, where he is serving as the

The Goucher Poll asked Maryland citizens for their opinions toward marijuana, the minimum wage, sick leave, and the addition of gender identity to statewide anti-discrimination laws. Highlights of the results regarding these pressing issues in the state are detailed below. Marijuana Marylanders’ opinions toward legalizing marijuana remains basically unchanged since the October 2013 Goucher Poll;

Maryse Fauvel, a professor of French studies at the College of William & Mary, will present the talk “Museums as Ways of Forgetting: A Parisian Case Study” on Thursday, April 3, at 7 p.m. in Buchner Hall of Goucher College’s Alumnae/i House. This interdisciplinary talk, which will be presented in English, will look at various

Goucher College President Sanford J. Ungar was honored for his service to higher education with commendations from both the Maryland State Senate and the House of Delegates. On March 6, Ungar was presented with resolutions in front of the entire General Assembly on the floors of both houses of the state legislature in Annapolis. House

In Kaleidoscope, a new art exhibit at Goucher College, Baltimore area artists are presenting a variety of pieces for show and sale. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, is running now through mid-April in the Lenrow Gallery on the fourth floor of Goucher’s Athenaeum. Artists’ receptions will be held Thursday, April 3,

Johanna Kandel—a nationally recognized speaker, advocate, and author—will talk about eating disorders and everyday challenges of recovery on Sunday, March 2, at 2 p.m. in Goucher College’s Kelley Lecture Hall. Kandel will talk about how to: • stop self-sabotage and sidestep triggers • quiet the eating-disordered voice • strengthen the healthy, positive voice • overcome

In March 1971, Betty Medsger, then a reporter at The Washington Post, received from anonymous sources copies of files stolen from the FBI office in Media, PA, days before. She was the first journalist to publish the story, which revealed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had—for nearly a half-century—distorted the mission of the most powerful

Eddie Palmieri has been at the forefront of jazz and Latin genres for five decades. The nine-time Grammy Award-winner and 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master will perform with his Latin jazz septet in Goucher College’s Kraushaar Auditorium on Sunday, March 9, at 7 p.m. This event is open to the public, but