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Goucher College

Motto: Gratia et Veritas
"Grace and Truth"
Established 1885
Type: Private
Endowment: U.S. $220 million
President: Sanford J. Ungar
Faculty: 146
Undergraduates: 1,500
Postgraduates: 1,000
Location Towson, Maryland, USA
Campus: Suburban 287 acre (1.2 km²)
Athletics: 17 varsity teams
Colors:
Mascot: Gopher
Website: www.goucher.edu
Haebler Memorial Chapel, a non-denominational chapel in the heart of Goucher College
Haebler Memorial Chapel, a non-denominational chapel in the heart of Goucher College

Goucher College is a co-educational liberal arts college located in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson in unincorporated Baltimore County, Maryland, on a 287 acre (1.2 km²) campus. The school has approximately 1,350 students studying in 33 undergraduate subjects and about 1000 students studying in graduate subjects. It was one of the first colleges to embrace internships and allow its students to take a more individualized approach. In 2004, Newsweek called Goucher the college with the happiest students. Image:Adam Goucher. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... For the film of this title, see Private School (film). ... A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Degree ceremony at Cambridge. ... Towson is a census-designated place located in Baltimore County, Maryland. ... Official language(s) None (English, de facto) Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Largest metro area Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 42nd  - Total 12,407 sq mi (32,133 km²)  - Width 101 miles (145 km)  - Length 249 miles (400 km)  - % water 21  - Latitude 37° 53′ N to 39° 43′ N... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... Millie, once mascot of the City of Brampton, is now the Brampton Arts Councils representative. ... Look up gopher, gofer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Image File history File links HaeblerMemorialChapel. ... Image File history File links HaeblerMemorialChapel. ... Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of higher education in the United States which are primarily liberal arts colleges. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Monument City, Charm City, Mob Town, B-more Motto: Get In On It (formerly The City That Reads and The Greatest City in America; BELIEVE is not the official motto but rather a specific campaign) Location Location of Baltimore in Maryland Coordinates , Government Country State County United... Towson is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. ... For other uses of Baltimore, see Baltimore (disambiguation). ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ...


Recently, Goucher College has instituted a study abroad requirement—each undergraduate must complete at least one study abroad experience. To help students fulfill this requirement, the college offers a wide range of three-week "intensive courses abroad" as well as semester and year-long programs, in concert with vouchers to subsidize the costs.

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History

The school was founded in 1885 as a women's college, by Methodist ministers Dr. John Goucher and John B. Van Meter, with the assistance of Goucher's wife Mary Cecilia Fisher Goucher. Originally called The Woman's College of Baltimore, the school was renamed in 1910 in honor of its founding members and benefactors.[1] 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Womens colleges in the United States in higher education are American undergraduate, bachelors degree-granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations are comprised exclusively or almost exclusively of women. ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...


The original campus was in the southern part of what is now the Charles Village neighborhood in Baltimore City. Goucher moved to its present suburban location in 1953. The college has been co-educational since 1986. Guilford Avenue rowhouses Charles Village is a neighborhood located in the north-central area of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It is a middle-class area with many single-family homes that is in proximity to many of Baltimores urban amenities. ... January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...


Campus demographics

Female students still predominate on the undergraduate level at about 67%, a fact partially vestigial from Goucher's days as a women-only college, but also probably a result of Goucher's dance program and equestrian facilities. This number is even higher at the graduate level, where almost 80% of the students are female. About 11.5% of the undergraduate population are either African-American, Asian, Hispanic or Native-American. At the graduate level the number is 14%. Two of the most popular majors are Communications and Psychology. Politically, most students lean towards the Democratic side of the spectrum. [1] U.S. News and World Report ranked Goucher college #94 in its annual rankings of national liberal arts colleges, tied with Augustana College in Illinois, Hanover College in Indiana, Hope College in Michigan, Washington and Jefferson in Pennsylvania, and Wells College in Upstate New York. Its most well-known faculty members include Dr. Jean H. Baker and Dr. Julie Roy Jeffery of the History Department, President Sanford Ungar, and the writer Madison Smartt Bell, who oversees the college's Kratz Center for Creative Writing. Goucher is one of forty schools profiled in the book Colleges That Change Lives by Loren Pope. Languages Predominantly American English Religions Protestantism (chiefly Baptist and Methodist); Roman Catholicism; Islam Related ethnic groups Sub-Saharan Africans and other African groups, some with Native American groups. ... Asian people[1] is a demonym for people from Asia. ... Hispanic (Spanish: ; Portuguese: ; Latin: , adjective from Hispānia, the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula) is a term that historically denoted relation to the ancient Hispania and its peoples. ... This article is about the people indigenous to the United States. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Psychological science redirects here. ... Augustana College is a small liberal arts college, with a current enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (140,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... Hanover College is a coeducational liberal arts college, located in Hanover, Indiana, near the banks of the Ohio River. ... For other uses, see Indiana (disambiguation). ... Hope College is a medium-sized (3,200 undergraduates), private, residential liberal arts college located in downtown Holland, Michigan, a few miles from Lake Michigan. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Madison Smartt Bell (born August 1, 1957) is a U.S. novelist. ... Colleges That Change Lives (Penguin, 2000) is a best-selling book by nationally renowned college advisor Loren Pope. ... Loren Pope is a nationally renown college advisor with several national publicatons on colleges and universities in the United States. ...


Campus

The Goucher College campus is proximate to downtown Towson, though the 287 acre campus is separated from it by surrounding woods owned by the school. The academic buildings appear generally at the north side of campus and the residential buildings the south. Most buildings are clad in tan colored stone. As a part of a recent expansion plan, a new residence hall was built in 2005, while next to it under construction is a new student center. The grounds are slightly hilly and include hiking and riding trails in the woods. Newsweek magazine described the campus as "unusually bucolic".[2] Towson is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. ... The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ...


In a marked shift away from traditional collegiate layout characterized by symmetry and quadrangles, Moore and Hutchins of the designing architectural firm, elected to group buildings together into informal zones based on function. For this reason the campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[3] A typical plaque showing entry on the National Register of Historic Places. ...


Academics

Undergraduate level

Goucher requires its students to complete general education requirements in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and the arts. There are special introductory courses for freshmen to orient them to the campus as well as college life at Goucher. Undergraduate students are also expected to fulfill an off campus learning requirement either through an internship or a study-abroad experience. A popular choice among many Goucher students is to participate in a "three week intensive" course abroad made up of an on-campus classroom component followed by three weeks abroad during the winter or spring. Goucher also allows students to participate in semester and year long study-abroad programs offered by other schools. Goucher recently announced that starting with the class of 2010 all students will be required to have at least one study-abroad experience in order to graduate, thus making it one of the first colleges to require such an experience of its students. Goucher is well-known for its creative writing, dance,pre-med, and peace studies departments. For other uses, see Humanities (disambiguation). ... The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. ... The term natural science as the way in which different fields of study are defined is determined as much by historical convention as by the present day meaning of the words. ... The Arts is a broad subdivision of culture, comprised of many expressive disciplines. ... Creative writing is a term used to distinguish certain imaginative or different types of writing from technical writing. ... For other uses, see Dance (disambiguation). ... A pre-medical degree (often shortened to pre-med) is one preparing for medical school. ... Peace and conflict studies can be defined as the inter-disciplinary inquiry into war as human condition and peace as human potential, as an alternative to the traditional Polemology (War Studies) and the strategies taught at Military academies. ...


Graduate level

Goucher offers the following graduate programs:

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Certificate and continuing education programs

  • Historic Preservation Certificate Program
  • Post-Baccalaureate Premed Program (having a 96% acceptance rate to medical school over its entire history)
  • Teacher's Institute
  • Educational Technology Certificate

Extracurricular activities

Goucher offers many student-run clubs in different areas such as the French club, the theater club the philosophy club, a pirate club, and a student-labor action committee. It has a bi-weekly school newspaper called the Quindecim, a literary arts journal called Vagabond and a student-run quarterly newsmagazine called The Goucher Review. Also notable is Goucher Student Radio, which contains a host of student, staff, and faculty programming and expands each year. It is accessible through Goucher's website as streaming media. The college is also credited with founding Humans vs. Zombies, a game that is played generally twice a year. For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle &#8212... For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... Look up pirate and piracy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Humans vs. ...


Athletics

Goucher competes in NCAA Division III, fielding men's and women's teams in lacrosse, soccer, basketball, track and field, cross country, swimming, and tennis, as well as women's teams in field hockey, volleyball, and coed equestrian sports. In 2007 the college joined the Landmark Conference after competing as a member of the Capital Athletic Conference from 1991 to 2007. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. ... The Landmark Conference is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division III. Member institutions are located in the eastern United States in the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C.. // Catholic University of America Drew University Goucher College Juniata College Moravian College... The Capital Athletic Conference (or CAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division III. Member institutions are located in the eastern United States in the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.. It is also a Private Middle School league that plays an arrangment...


Other programs on campus

Goucher has served as a campus for the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth summer program for gifted students. The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... CTY redirects here. ...


Notable alumni

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References

  1. ^ Goucher College, The Baltimore Sun, August 29, 2002
  2. ^ http://www.newsweek.com/id/59925/page/8
  3. ^ Moore and Hutchins

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