Snapshots of the Goucher community at home—Chapin Noel ’24, Paige McSavaney ’24, Jaired Tate, Kendyl Walker, and Tina Carretti show their lives learning and working from home.
As part of a national racial justice teach-in, Goucher faculty opened their classrooms to the public for discussions about Goucher, racial equity, and more.
Senior Vice President and Provost Elaine Meyer-Lee discusses academics at Goucher: what’s working best, where our focus should be, and why anti-racism should be at the heart of it.
View Class Notes, Remembered, and In Memoriam, meet Goucher’s new vice president of advancement, Michele Ewing, and hear from AAGC President Jay Gilman ’09. For your privacy, this section is password protected online.
New books published by Goucher faculty and alumnae/i.
Most students don’t begin a college internship expecting a job offer. Gabi Umstead ’20 and Danielle Clapperton ’20 were two of this year’s exceptions at Goucher College.
How does a student choose a college when they can’t visit campus or sit in on a class? At Goucher, the answer is through virtual recruitment efforts.
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought Goucher professors a new kind of complex problem to solve: how to make a hands-on learning experience a virtual one.
Graduating seniors have much to celebrate this spring. For four students, that includes $25,000 grants to take part in AmeriCorps’ Teach for America.
When Goucher moved to remote learning, Associate Professor of Mathematics Phong Le ’03 brought home the 3D printer to do some maintenance. Now, he’s running it all day long, printing parts for face shields for health care workers.
Brandon Arvesen ’04 reflects on how Goucher has influenced his life, both as a student and as a teacher.
As these three students proved, becoming a doctor doesn’t have to start with a textbook.
From touring with a rock band to teaching time arts, this is Kent, in his own words.
Whether it is at an outreach event, or in the laundry room, “everyone finds a community here no matter what their story is,” Ramos-Fontán says.
Frenchy Snyder supported women’s rights, stood up for liberal politics, joined a union, and was president of the Baltimore section for the National Council of Jewish Women.
As students in Emily Billo’s environmental justice class learned, forces of privilege determine access to healthy food. The class collaborated with the Black Yield Institute to understand the issue.
Penny Norrington Orth ’63 and Joe Orth are visiting all 419 of the National Parks Service sites, including monuments, trails, rivers, and battlefields.
The ghosts of Goucher, in their own way, live on through the stories we tell, which is maybe what they wanted all along—to be remembered.
Sydney Hines joins Goucher's men’s basketball as an assistant coach, making her the third woman to serve as a men’s basketball coach in Maryland.
By Kailah Figueroa The Goucher College Library welcomes Paul Henderson: Photographs from the Civil Rights Era, a traveling exhibit from the Maryland Historical Society opening on September 19, 2019. Paul Henderson was an African American photojournalist who worked on the staff for the Baltimore Afro-American as one of their first photographers and as an occasional […]
For college transfer students, everything is new again. But these Gophers know they’re right where they’re supposed to be.
A partial history of Burning Man, through the eyes of its CEO: the founder, lover, and Goucher alumna Marian Goodell ’84.
A hobby can bring both joy and frustration, as finding a balance of work and pleasure can be a tricky puzzle.
Thirty years after living in Jeffery House, a group of seven Goucher women found new friendships in each other.
First jobs teach us a lot. Our first jobs after college can help start our career paths, or help us decide to do something else.
When it comes to a career in dance, don’t let fear be the reason you never try.
When it launched in 2014, the Goucher Video Application was the first of its kind in college admissions. This semester, the first cohort of GVA students graduated.
Last month, Goucher College President José Antonio Bowen joined thought leaders from across the nation at SXSW EDU 2019, a prominent teaching and learning conference.
Brendan O’Meara, M.F.A. '08, loved listening to creative people discuss their process, so he started a podcast on the art and craft of telling true stories.
In the spring semester, Goucher created a League of Legends esports team to compete in the Division III Landmark Conference, which introduced esports for the first time.
It's important to Tierra Dorsey to meet people where they are, so she's having conversations with alumnae/i and the Goucher community at large.
With a concentration in environmental science, Sam Glickstein was already interested in intensive agriculture when he got the chance to build a prototype of a hydroponic system in Goucher’s greenhouse.
Todd Troester ’15 has been building connections and helping others his entire life. Recently, his passions have led him to a kind of social activism.
In an increasingly fast-paced globalized society, how does one preserve ancient traditions and cultural heritage? Over the past year, a group of professors and students from Goucher’s M.A.C.S. program has been working on two projects addressing that question.
Summer at Goucher College is marked by possibility—animals wander even more boldly, rain threatens many afternoons, and exciting discoveries could come at any time.
Anyone who has spent time on Goucher’s campus over the past two years knows intimately that the college is undergoing an exciting period of transformation.
After serving for more than a decade on the Goucher College Board of Trustees, Ruth Shapiro Lenrow ’74 became board chair in July, previously serving as the board’s secretary and vice chair, as well as gala chair for two years.
Dante Disparte ’00 believes “that the most important thing people need to learn is to learn how to learn,” a skill he said Goucher gave him.
More Goucher students than ever are landing internships, driven by a desire for specialized career experiences they might not encounter in a more typical summer job. Here are a few of their stories.
In 1942, in a locked room at the top of a building in downtown Baltimore, 10 young women learned cryptology under the supervision of a Pulitzer Prize winner and a Navy officer. The building was Goucher Hall, in the days when the college was still located in the downtown part of the city, and the […]
Finding your purpose and figuring out how to lead a fulfilling life can be a daunting challenge for anyone, especially young adults learning to navigate their way through college.
After five years at Niagara University teaching abstract algebra and practical statistics, a faculty position opened at Goucher College. Phong Le ’03 was only a year away from tenure, but he says the decision came down to where he wanted his career to go. This was Le's [UNDAUNTED] moment.
The tech world has a problem: It needs more employees with liberal arts degrees.
President José Antonio Bowen received the Ernest L. Boyer award from the New American Colleges & Universities (NAC&U) at the Association of American Colleges & Universities 2018 annual meeting.
Preparations for the 2018 Goucher Awards Gala and Celebration are under way, and it will be a memorable night for the college.
Goucher has never been short of creative thinkers looking for problems to solve.
Goucher’s award-winning Equestrian Program has been a fixture in the life of the college for the past 91 years.
At 100, Evelyn Dyke Schroedl ’62 aces philanthropy
All three Froelicher residence halls were successfully relocated this summer.
Colleges across the country are turning their attention to student engagement.
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