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This summer, new students at Goucher College will read Colum McCann’s sweeping and radical social novel Let the Great World Spin. The book is Goucher’s 2013 summer reading assignment for first-year and transfer students. Selected based on suggestions from faculty and staff, Let the Great World Spin will spark discussion among new students, staff, and […]

Opening Ceremony Tuesday, September 17 6 p.m. | Pinkard Room, the Athenaeum The Department of Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures’ Florencia Cortes-Conde, associate professor and chair, and Frances Ramos Fontan, director of Goucher’s Futuro Latino Learning Center, will lead a short video presentation of “Una Mejor Vida: Latino Voices on Survival and Transformation.” This bilingual Spanish-English

Melissa R. Klapper ’95, professor of history and director of women’s and gender studies at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ, will speak at Goucher College on Wednesday, October 2, at 7 p.m. in the Batza Room of the Athenaeum. Her talk is based on her most recent book, Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American

In Sundry Moods, Julia Sutliff’s paintings celebrate nature, places left uninterrupted by humans—the wilder, the better. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, runs in Goucher’s Rosenberg Gallery from September 6 to November 1 and can be viewed Monday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Additionally, an artist’s reception will

Reactions have been tinged with sadness following Sanford J. Ungar’s announcement at the end of last month that he will be stepping down as Goucher’s president in June 2014. Community members say they will be sorry to see the end of Ungar’s thirteen-year tenure at the college, but they also share their confidence that his

R. Luke DuBois—a composer, conceptual new-media artist, educator, and performer—will be the keynote speaker at Goucher’s graduate programs Commencement, during which the college will graduate its first cohort of students from the Master of Arts in Digital Arts (MADArts) program. The Master of Arts in Digital Arts program allows students who are interested in music,

Just Gender, a documentary tackling the little-understood world of transgender people, will be screened at Goucher College on Tuesday, October 15, at 4 p.m. in Buchner Hall of the Alumnae/i House. A roundtable discussion will follow with Cindy and Susan Brittain, both featured in the film; Daniel Norvell, a counselor at Brandywine Counseling & Community

Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel will be the featured performer on Wednesday, October 16, at 8 p.m. in Merrick Lecture Hall.

Goucher President Sanford J. Ungar has announced his decision to leave the college’s helm after an impressive 13-year tenure.

Goucher College will launch a rare undergraduate academic program in book studies, starting this fall. The 18-credit, interdisciplinary minor will explore the past, present, and future of the book.