Professor Kathy Flann has won the 2016 Best Book Award in the short story category for her collection Get a Grip. Get a Grip previously won the 2014 George Garrett Fiction Prize, as well as the 2016 International Book Award and the National Indie Excellence Award in the short story categories. The book was also named […]
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Redbook Magazine on “The Business of Friendship” features Paid to Party: Working Time and Emotion in Direct Home Sales, by Goucher profs Janet Shope and Jamie Mulaney.
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Baltimore, Md., November 21, 2016—The Maryland Horse Breeders Association announced Friday that it will relocate its headquarters from Timonium to Goucher College at the end of December. Goucher is currently developing an 18-acre state-of-the-art intercollegiate equestrian center that will be anchored by the Maryland Horse Breeders Association’s office, which will eventually offer a museum and
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Mary B. Hyman, President of the Sigmund M. Hyman Foundation, has announced a $2.5M planned gift to Goucher College, the largest gift the foundation has ever given to a Maryland school. This generous gift will support merit scholarships, capital projects, and student-faculty research. Mary is a Goucher trustee emerita and alumna (1971). She received a
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Micaela Beigel ’19 was a winner in the 2016 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest. The contest, sponsored by the Library of Congress’ Center for the Book and the Rare Books and Special Collections Division, the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America, and the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies, recognizes and encourages young collectors. “We are honored
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After a decision last year to remove stained glass windows at the National Cathedral in Washington that honored Confederate generals, the cathedral hosted a discussion featuring professor of religion Kelly Brown Douglas. From DCist: Reverend Doctor Kelly Brown Douglas, the cathedral’s canon theologian and a professor at Goucher, calls this “the pit that divides us—a racial pit.” If
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On Friday November 11, Drs. Mel Lewis, Emma Amador, Irline Francois, and Michelle Tokarczyk will present a roundtable discussion, “Decolonizing Curriculums: The Marriage of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Hispanic Languages, Literatures, & Cultures” at the National Women’s Studies Association annual conference in Montréal, Québec.
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What’s the point of an education if no one can afford it? Goucher College wants to change that. For the first time in the college’s history, Goucher will not raise tuition for the upcoming school year (2017-18). The initiative builds on Goucher’s long tradition as a leader in liberal arts innovation and in advocacy for
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