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73-884: In 1964, C. A. Hopson grouped the Ellicott City Granodiorite with the Guilford Quartz Monzonite and the Woodstock Quartz Monzonite as "Late-kinematic intrusive masses." In 1980, Crowley and Reinhardt of the Maryland Geological Survey remapped the Ellicott City Quadrangle and referred to this unit as the Ellicott City Granite, rather than granodiorite. Hopson reported the chemical composition (by %) of

146-495: A "Program Prioritization Process" involving faculty which cited low overall interest in those majors among students. The school said that advanced courses in these subjects will remain part of the overall curriculum and that the class of 2022 and students that were studying in those majors will be unaffected by the change. Goucher's graduate program is run out of the Welch Center for Graduate and Professional Studies, which

219-505: A 107,000 square foot turf stadium field named Gopher Stadium, three grass practice fields, an outdoor track, twelve tennis courts that opened in 2019 as part of the Evelyn Dyke Schroedl '62 Tennis Center, as well as separate courts for racquetball and squash , and an equestrian center. The Decker Sports and Recreation Center contains a six-lane, 25-yard pool, dance studios, a basketball court, gymnasium, varsity locker rooms,

292-666: A Silver rating according to the U.S. Green Building Council 's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building certification system. In 2007, the campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The campus underwent significant changes when in 2017 several of its primary residential buildings were relocated as part of an extensive plan to construct a "First-year Village" comprising modernized residential halls and recreational facilities for newly matriculated freshmen. The new freshmen dorms have

365-625: A bachelor's degree in American Studies to students enrolled through GPEP. The division primarily operates on private grants and donations raised by its staff, with some funds provided through federal Pell grants. Each year, around 130 GPEP students at MCI-J and the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW) enroll in college classes taught by faculty from Goucher and other local colleges and universities. Goucher has over 60 student-run clubs including

438-479: A capacity of 450 and opened in the fall of 2018. These developments coincided with substantial renovations to Mary Fisher Hall, with its campus cafe upgraded to a full-fledged, 550-seat dining hall. Goucher also announced plans to build a new 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m ) Science Research Center to provide additional lab space and resources for expanded biology, chemistry, and environmental science departments. To raise capital for these projects, Goucher initiated

511-405: A dozen sorority chapters on campus including Kappa Kappa Gamma , Kappa Alpha Theta , Gamma Phi Beta , and Pi Beta Phi , but they were disbanded on the move to Towson. Goucher turned coeducational in 1986 when the board of trustees voted to admit men, citing declining enrollment and reduced national interest by women in single-sex colleges. The decision was controversial among many students and

584-738: A dual degree engineering program with Columbia University. Goucher is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education . Goucher began requiring all undergraduates to study abroad in 2006, which was the most notable of several reforms to the school's curriculum in that period. A popular choice for students is a three-week course abroad during the winter, spring, or summer. Goucher offers over 60 semester and yearlong study-abroad programs in 30 countries but allows students to register in programs by other schools. Undergraduates are also expected to either complete an internship, participate in community engagement work, or work as

657-555: A faculty research assistant. Goucher sponsors a competitive grant program for students participating in summer internships. In 2017, Goucher instituted a revamped set of general education requirements into the curriculum called "Goucher Commons" including a first-year seminar, emphasis on writing, data analytics , and foreign language and culture, a capstone course , and inquiry into at least two areas. In 2018, Goucher announced plans to eliminate seven majors, including mathematics, physics, religion, music, and Russian studies, following

730-461: A fully equipped weight room, and a cardio fitness center. The equestrian center lies on the northernmost edge of campus and contains two barns, 10 turnout paddocks, indoor and outdoor riding rings, and several riding fields, in addition to wooded trails shared with pedestrians. The architectural design firm responsible for planning the campus, Moore and Hutchins, elected to group buildings together into informal zones based on function, departing from

803-693: A fundraising campaign to raise $ 100 million from alumni and other donors, of which it has raised $ 96 million. In the U.S. News & World Report annual college rankings for 2021, Goucher tied for 120th among national liberal arts colleges, 11th in Most Innovative Schools, 72nd in Social Mobility, and 5th in Study Abroad. Forbes in 2019 ranked Goucher at 138 in Liberal Arts Universities, 161 in

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876-524: A host of student, staff, and faculty programming and is streamed online. Many students participate in Goucher Student Government, which holds elections, oversees the activities of clubs, passes resolutions, and votes on matters affecting the general student body. Similar to other private liberal arts schools in the northeast , Goucher no longer recognizes any fraternities or sororities on campus. Goucher's athletic teams are known as

949-421: A minority of alumnae. However it was followed by increased enrollment and sustained support from the school's donors, with Goucher's endowment growing nearly five-fold from $ 45 million in 1986. President Rhoda M. Dorsey , who also initially resisted the proposal, relented and presided over the transition. Goucher's former Baltimore campus became known as Old Goucher . The school maintained no affiliation with

1022-606: A partial amphitheater situated near Van Meter Hall, is also a venue for on-campus recitals, performances, sponsored political debates, and other productions. The college is fundraising to build its Science Innovation Center, which will be a 44,000-square foot annex to the Hoffberger Science Building. The college's residence halls are concentrated on the south side of campus. They are Heubeck, Froelicher, Stimson, Mary Fisher, Sondheim, Stimson, Welsh Hall, known by students as "the T" for its T-shaped design, which

1095-820: A program called the Futuro Latino Learning Center, run by students and college instructors. The school regularly conducts the Goucher College Poll, which operates under the Sarah T. Hughes Center for Politics, a member of the Association of Academic Survey Research Organizations and the American Association for Public Opinion Research Transparency Initiative. The Goucher College Poll is conducted by phone and asks Maryland residents statewide their opinions on politics,

1168-559: A significant role in the women's suffrage movement. In 1881, the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church passed a resolution to found a seminary. The proposal was met with some objection, with one member stating, "I would not give a fig for a weakling little thing of a seminary. We want such a school, so ample in its provisions, of such dignity in its buildings, so fully provided with

1241-569: Is a Silurian or Ordovician quartz monzonite pluton in Howard County , Maryland. It is described as a biotite - muscovite - quartz monzonite which occurs as discontinuous lenticular bodies which intrude mainly through the Wissahickon Formation ( gneiss ). The extent of this intrusion was originally mapped in 1940 as the "Guilford granite". It was given its current name in 1964 by C. A. Hopson. Hopson grouped

1314-420: Is especially rich in iron, possesses a very dark color, but shows no evident disintegration or decomposition. The feldspar is almost entirely microcline , which shows the cross- twinning very clearly, and appears clear and fresh with very few included flakes or small crystals. These microclines form the largest individual areas in the rock mass, sometimes reaching 0.15-0.2 of an inch (4-5 mm.) in diameter, while

1387-615: Is made of these quarries. It is not certain whether the quarry on the Baltimore county side or the quarries of the Howard county side furnished the first material for Baltimore, but it is clearly evident from the character of the rock furnished for the Catholic Cathedral , that the gneiss was the more important rock at that time. Local tradition assigns the source of the stone sometimes to the Baltimore county side and sometimes to

1460-411: Is named for late former acting president Robert S. Welch . The school grants Master of Arts , Master of Education , and Master of Fine Arts degrees in fields including art and technology and historic preservation. Since 1993, Goucher has offered a full-time post-baccalaureate pre-medical program with 96% of students over the course of its history gaining acceptance to medical school and 99.7% over

1533-708: The District Court for the District of Maryland , 27th Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard Sally Brice-O'Hara , former president of First Republic Bank Katherine August-DeWilde , and the third president of California State University, San Marcos , Karen S. Haynes . Early in its history, Goucher played an important role nationally in providing women access to higher education. Many ground-breaking women doctors, researchers, and scientists graduated from Goucher in

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1606-710: The Intercollegiate Horse Show Association . Approximately 67% of undergraduates are female. About 37% of the student body identifies as African-American , Asian , Hispanic , or Native-American . Goucher also has one of the highest percentages of Jewish students in the country at 26%, according to Hillel International . Goucher attracts students both nationally and internationally; undergraduates in 2017 came from 46 states and 50 countries. Twenty-five percent of students qualify for Pell Grants , and Goucher has been recognized for its success in graduating Pell Grant recipients compared to

1679-648: The Methodist Episcopal Church to establish the school's charter. Goucher relocated to its Towson campus in 1953 and became coeducational in 1986. Goucher grants BA and BS degrees in a range of disciplines across 31 majors and 39 minors. Goucher is among the few colleges in the United States to require all undergraduates spend a semester studying abroad . Goucher is a member of the Landmark Conference and competes in

1752-515: The NCAA's Division III in lacrosse , tennis , soccer , volleyball , basketball , and horseback riding . Goucher partners with nearby Johns Hopkins University , Loyola University Maryland , and the University of Baltimore to allow students to earn accelerated post-graduate or combined undergraduate degrees. Goucher also offers a postbaccalaureate premedical program , master's programs in

1825-547: The Smithsonian building , twice passed by these quarries and yet makes no mention of them. At the time of the Tenth Census the agent remarks that he "knows of no other place in the country where there are so many stone buildings in an area of the same size." Mathews described recent (c. 1872-1898) operations at the quarries: Of the quarries in operation at the present day those of Werner Bros, were opened as early as

1898-652: The United States District Court for the District of Maryland and Phyllis A. Kravitch for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit , and two-time Olympic gold medalist in figure skating Nathan Chen . Other prominent alumni include molecular and cellular biologist Lydia Villa-Komaroff , former First Lady of Puerto Rico Lucé Vela , 27th Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard Sally Brice-O'Hara , former president of First Republic Bank Katherine August-DeWilde ,

1971-541: The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine . Goucher also grants certificates through a program for teachers called the AP (Advanced Placement) Summer Institute recognizing specialties with at-risk learners, middle school, reading instruction, improving school leadership, and educational technology. In 2012, Goucher founded the Goucher Prison Education Partnership (GPEP), a division of

2044-450: The humanities and social sciences , languages , biological sciences , and performing arts . Goucher is also well-known for its creative writing , dance , and pre-med departments. The student-faculty ratio is 10:1, and the average class size is 16. The college also offers 4+1 bachelor’s/master’s programs itself and with Johns Hopkins University, Loyola University Maryland, Middlebury College, and University of Maryland, Baltimore and

2117-493: The Chem Club, which is the oldest continuously operating club on campus, Hillel , an a capella group called Red Hot Blue, a poetry club, a black student union called Umoja, Model United Nations , and a student-labor action committee. The college publishes a bi-weekly student newspaper called The Quindecim and a literary arts journal called Preface . Other media run by the school is Goucher Student Radio, which contains

2190-564: The Ellicott City Granodiorite from two locations. H7-A is on River Road, 0.3 miles east of the Patapsco River Bridge, Ellicott City, and H18-1A is on U.S. Route 29 , 200 yards south of U.S. Route 40 . The 1898 account of Edward B. Mathews of the Maryland Geological Survey of the quarries at Ellicott City begins with a statement that there were two quarries; one on either side of the Patapsco River . The rock on

2263-634: The Gophers. In 2007 the college joined the Landmark Conference after competing as a member of the Capital Athletic Conference from 1991 to 2007. Goucher competes in the NCAA's Division III, fielding men's and women's teams in lacrosse, soccer, basketball, track and field, cross country, golf, swimming, and tennis, as well as women's teams in field hockey and volleyball. Goucher also competes nationally in co-ed equestrian sports through

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2336-756: The Goucher History Project, to research the history of the enslaved people who were forced to live and labor on the land in Towson prior to emancipation in the state in 1864. Students and faculty are working to digitize records and develop initiatives to acknowledge the history of slavery on the campus’ land through the curriculum and other means. Goucher College has also joined the Universities Studying Slavery (USS) consortium. Well-known Goucher faculty and professors emeritus include Jean H. Baker and Julie Roy Jeffrey of

2409-564: The Guilford Quartz Monzonite with the Ellicott City Granodiorite and the Woodstock Quartz Monzonite as "Late-kinematic intrusive masses." The Guilford Quartz Monzonite was described in 1898 as "perhaps the most attractive stone in the state" by Edward B. Mathews of the Maryland Geological Survey. He provides this detailed description of the granite: The rock of this area differs from all of

2482-487: The Guilford Quartz Monzonite yielded an age of 362 +/- 3 Ma ( Devonian ). Goucher College Goucher College ( / ˈ ɡ aʊ tʃ ə r / GOW -chər ) is a private liberal arts college in Towson, Maryland . Founded in 1885 as a non-denominational women's college in Baltimore's central district, the college is named for pastor and missionary John F. Goucher , who enlisted local leaders of

2555-456: The Howard county side and the published information is equally conflicting and indefinite. When the Cathedral was constructed during the years 1806 to 1812 and subsequently from 1815 to 1821, the material was hauled from Ellicott City to Baltimore along the old Frederick road in huge wagons drawn by nine yoke of oxen . After furnishing the rock for this building, which must have been one of

2628-572: The Loop Road, circles campus. Newsweek magazine described the campus as "unusually bucolic." It has also been referred to by CBS Baltimore as one of Baltimore County 's most scenic college campuses. A scene at the fictional Hammond University from the fourth season of the Netflix series House of Cards was filmed on Goucher's campus, with most shots taking place at the Athenaeum and

2701-537: The Northeast, 272 nationally among private colleges, and 410 overall among the best 650 colleges and universities in the U.S. Washington Monthly ranked Goucher 67th among liberal arts colleges in 2019. The Princeton Review included Goucher in its 2019 edition of the "Best 384 Colleges" and ranked it No. 5 in "Most Popular Study Abroad Program.” Goucher was recognized as a top producer of Fulbright scholars by The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2018. It

2774-601: The Rhoda M. Dorsey College Center. Goucher's main academic buildings, including Van Meter Hall and Julia Rogers, are located at the northern portion of campus, called the "academic quad". The Hoffberger Science Building houses the school's science departments and is adjacent to the Meyerhoff Arts Building, which contains a theater, photo studio, and several galleries and where the dance, theater, and art departments are based. Student Administrative Services and

2847-514: The Romanesque style of the previous Baltimore campus. The buildings on campus are clad in tan-colored Butler stone chosen to reflect a Modernist theme. Over the years, the architecture of the campus has won numerous awards. The campus has also been recognized for its commitment to sustainability and energy efficiency, being called a "Top 25 Green College." In 2009, Goucher announced a goal for all new and existing buildings to achieve at least

2920-493: The admissions office are located in the Rhoda M. Dorsey College Center. Near the center of the campus and opposite Mary Fisher Hall is the Athenaeum, or "the Ath," a 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m ) modern, multipurpose facility built in 2009 encompassing the main library, a restaurant, classrooms, lecture halls, and an open auditorium. The Athenaeum is where speakers who visit the campus are typically hosted. The Merrick Lecture Hall,

2993-529: The arts and humanities, and professional development courses in writing and education. As of 2023 , Goucher enrolls approximately 1,100 undergraduates and 900 post-graduates. Loren Pope profiled Goucher among forty institutions of higher learning in his 1996 book Colleges That Change Lives . Goucher counts notable alumni in law, business, journalism, academia, and government, including conservative journalist Jonah Goldberg , former First Lady of Puerto Rico Lucé Vela , Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander of

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3066-415: The beginning of the century. In 1872 Charles J. Werner reopened a quarry, which since his death in 1888 has been operated by his sons, who purchased in 1890 a second quarry, which had previously been opened by Robert Wilson. These quarries became of some importance in 1893, when one of them is spoken of as the principal Ellicott City quarry, although it is now producing little or no building stone except during

3139-574: The best apparatus, that it shall draw to itself the eyes of the community and that young people shall feel it an honor to be enrolled among its students." Minister and conference member John B. Van Meter asserted "that the Conference [should] make the foundation and endowment of a female college the single object of its organized effort." Van Meter was joined by fellow minister John Franklin Goucher (1845–1922) and together they eventually persuaded

3212-411: The cause of woman's education should be allowed to break up for the lack of money." By 1914, Goucher was one of six "Class I" colleges for women in the U.S. In 1921, Goucher purchased 421 acres of land in nearby Towson that had belonged to the estate of a prominent Baltimore family, for $ 150,000. The move from Baltimore to the Towson suburbs was completed in 1953. Before 1950, Goucher hosted nearly

3285-502: The central campus infrastructure is a dense forest, owned by the school, which features low hills and hiking and jogging trails, some of which are also used by the college's equestrian riders. The non-denominational Haebler Memorial Chapel lies near the center of campus. A walking path, called the Van Meter Highway, connects to most of the college's residential, academic, recreational, and athletic buildings, while one road,

3358-578: The chemical composition (by %) of the Guilford Quartz Diorite from 1.5 miles west-southwest of Guilford along the Middle Patuxent River, as follows: The 1898 account of Edward B. Mathews of the Maryland Geological Survey of the quarry at Guilford (now within the town of Columbia ) is as follows: The quarries at Guilford were originally opened about 1834, and were worked almost continuously from that date until

3431-410: The clear transparent grains of quartz average less than 0.01 of an inch (.03 mm.). The individuals are interlocked in a mosaic, which indicates that the rock can well withstand any pressure to which it may normally be subjected. The mica flakes are small and evenly disseminated, so that they do not injure the polish which may be given to the rock in preparing it for monumental purposes. Hopson reported

3504-486: The college became the second in Maryland to establish a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, after Johns Hopkins University . Goucher stepped down in 1908 to resume his international missionary work but remained involved with the school as president emeritus until his death in 1922. In 1910, the school was renamed Goucher College in his honor. In 1913, the college inaugurated its fourth president, William W. Guth , who oversaw

3577-593: The college that expands the academic community to include individuals incarcerated in two Maryland state prisons. In 2015, GPEP hosted the Department of Education at the Maryland Correctional Institution - Jessup (MCI-J) to announce the Second Chance Pell Grant pilot program and became one of 67 colleges selected in 2016 to provide individuals incarcerated in the U.S. the opportunity to use federal Pell grants to earn college credits. Goucher offers

3650-667: The conference to found a college, instead. Subsequently, the Women's College of Baltimore City ("City" was later dropped) was chartered on January 26, 1885. It opened its doors in 1888, and four years later graduated its first class of just five students. John F. Goucher, despite being the school's namesake and co-founder, was not the college's first president. Although offered the post, he declined, and it went to William Hersey Hopkins , who had served as president of St. John's College in Annapolis . After Hopkins resigned in 1890 to join

3723-566: The construction of several new residence halls and a successful million-dollar fundraising campaign. Around this time, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson , whose daughter Jessie was a Goucher alumna, expressed support for the college's fundraising efforts in correspondence with the administration, writing in March 1913, "It would, indeed, be ... evidence that our great educational public does not fully understand its own interests if an institution which has served with such faithfulness ... in

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3796-408: The early 20th century, including Hattie Alexander , Florence B. Seibert , and Margaret Irving Handy . Judge Sarah T. Hughes of Texas, who was famously photographed administering the presidential oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson aboard Air Force One , graduated from Goucher in 1917. A daughter of President Woodrow Wilson , Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre , also graduated Goucher and went on to play

3869-447: The eastern, or Baltimore County, side is "a fine grained mass, with a decided foliation or gneissic structure," while the rock on the western, or Howard County side, is "more uniform and granitic." The text also refers to the figure of the polished slab on the left: "Here it also has a porphyritic structure in consequence of the development of large flesh-colored crystals of feldspar which are disseminated somewhat irregularly through

3942-403: The economy, and cultural issues. The polling is performed by Goucher students out of a 40-station computer-aided telephone interview lab. The poll is typically conducted twice a year, and a methodology statement is provided with each release. The results are covered in local and regional media like The Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post . The Hallowed Ground Project started in 2018, as

4015-445: The faculty, the board of trustees voted unanimously to renominate Goucher. Under pressure from the board, Goucher relented and accepted the position, which he held for nearly two decades. Goucher and his wife Mary Cecilia Fisher made significant financial contributions to the college, including the bequest of a portion of his estate. During President Goucher's tenure, enrollment grew but the college suffered financial deficits. In 1904,

4088-473: The fall of the year when random rubble is quarried for local use. The output for the year 1896 did not aggregate over 200 perches . The most active quarry at the present is that operated by A. Weber. This quarry is situated on the Howard county side some distance below the station. The material has been furnished in recent years for some important buildings, as those of the Woman's College of Baltimore , but most of

4161-601: The history department, Nancy Hubbard from the business and accounting department, president emeritus Sanford J. Ungar , and authors Madison Smartt Bell and Elizabeth Spires , who oversee the college's Kratz Center for Creative Writing. Goucher has over 21,000 living alumni, and many of its graduates have gone on to make contributions in the arts and literature, sciences, journalism, business, academia, government, and other fields. Historical alumni include women scientists like Helen Dodson Prince and Florence Seibert , and doctors like Bessie L. Moses (graduated 1915), who

4234-467: The material seems to be used for Belgian blocks , curbing and macadam . In 1973, M. W. Higgins reported a radiometric ( Rb-Sr age ) of 425 Ma, which placed the Ellicott City Granodiorite in the Silurian . In 1998, A. A. Drake revised the age to Ordovician based on the granodiorite's relationship with the Woodstock Quartz Monzonite . Guilford Quartz Monzonite The Guilford Quartz Monzonite

4307-410: The most important stone structures in the United States at the time of its construction, the quarries evidently were worked only to meet local demands. In fact they have never since been of such relatively great importance. Dr. David Dale Owen , indeed, while studying the various building stones of Maryland at Cockeysville , Woodstock and Port Deposit , with the view of gaining all the information for

4380-559: The national average. For the class of 2022, the top five represented home states were Maryland, New York , Pennsylvania , California , and New Jersey , and 26% of the incoming class were first-generation college students , while more than one-third of that class were in the top 20% of their graduating high school class. Goucher has hosted the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth summer program for gifted students. Goucher students conceived

4453-407: The nationally popular campus game Humans vs. Zombies , which is organized by students annually, and the commercial party game Cards Against Humanity . Another of the school's annual traditions is GIG, "Get into Goucher," in which students participate in campus-wide celebrations, concerts, and other festivities. Goucher also hosts English as a second language and computer literacy classes under

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4526-509: The operations of Messrs. Matthew Gault and Sons, who commenced work in 1893, and by Messrs. Brunner and White, who opened a quarry of superior quality in March, 1895. A. A. Drake argued that the Guilford is of Ordovician age because it is probably comagmatic with the Woodstock Quartz Monzonite dated at 444 Ma. An earlier source gives the date of 420 +/-50 Ma. More recently, radiometric dating ( U-Pb - TIMS ) of zircon crystals extracted from

4599-515: The other granites of the state in the persistent presence of both light and dark colored micas . Thus, according to the German classification, it is the only "true granite" in the state. Other granites may have muscovite as a constituent, but it is not so abundant or typical as in the present instance. Both of the micas are products of the original crystallization of the molten rock magma, and they are frequently in parallel growths. The biotite , which

4672-417: The outbreak of the civil war in 1860. During the succeeding twenty-five years the operations were of little account, and little work was done until the Guilford and Waltersville Granite Company attempted to develop the industry in 1887. This effort lasted but a short time as all of the machinery was removed from the quarries in 1889. The industrial life of the district has been revived somewhat in recent years by

4745-530: The past decade. The program accepts approximately 32 students annually. It has linkage agreements with several schools including the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine , University of Michigan Medical School , Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University , George Washington University School of Medicine , Weill Cornell Medical College , Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University , Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell , New York University Grossman School of Medicine , and

4818-495: The property after its sale. The complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Many of its Romanesque structures have been preserved and re-purposed for commercial, public, and residential use. The school's Towson campus was added to the historic register in 2007. Goucher occupies a green, wooded 287-acre (1.16 km ) campus that is proximate and northeast to downtown Towson. Surrounding

4891-446: The rock, as shown in (the figure) ." Mathews continued with a description of their historical importance: The time of opening these quarries dates back probably into the last of the 18th century, but the details are entirely wanting. The beautiful appearance of some of the more uniformly porphyritic specimens early attracted attention, and in the earliest works which we have on this area, that by Dr. Hayden published in 1811, mention

4964-407: The school received national coverage when it announced it would accept video-only applications without transcripts, essays, or test scores. The decision was criticized by some who suggested that doing so represented a lowering of standards. The school defended the decision as part of an effort to increase diversity among the student body and later reported that the average GPA of students admitted via

5037-576: The third president of California State University, San Marcos , Karen S. Haynes , the first woman to ever serve as the chief financial officer of a large corporation, Judy C. Lewent , political commentator, author, and founding editor-in-chief of The Dispatch Jonah Goldberg , 14th Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski , 26th Chief of Chaplains for the United States Navy Margaret G. Kibben , former president of Public Citizen Joan Claybrook , and former chairwoman of

5110-461: The video application process met or exceeded that of students who submitted traditional applications. For 2021, the average matriculated student's GPA was 3.14, with those reporting, the average SAT score was 1200, and average ACT score was 25. As of 2023, students choose from 31 majors, including an individualized interdisciplinary major, and 39 minors; there are also special orientation courses for first-year students. The most popular majors are in

5183-513: Was also profiled in the book Colleges that Change Lives by Loren Pope as one of forty institutions. The school was one of the first in the country to require a study abroad of all undergraduates, along with Susquehanna University and Soka University of America . Goucher's admissions process is rated as "selective" by U.S. News & World Report . For the class of 2022, Goucher received 3,474 applications and had an acceptance rate of 79%. Goucher has been SAT -optional since 2006. In 2014,

5256-513: Was completed in 2005. In 2018, the school completed construction of the "First-year Village" for freshmen, which includes Pagliaro Selz Hall, Fireside Hall, and Trustees Hall. Campus housing for students includes singles, doubles, triples, suites, and on-campus apartments. Sondheim is the sole residence hall designated as substance-free. In July 2018, Goucher announced a campus-wide ban on cigarettes and smoking devices like electronic cigarettes . The campus's outdoor sports facilities include

5329-722: Was founder of Baltimore's Bureau for Contraceptive Advice, and Georgeanna Seegar Jones . Other historical graduates include Mary Cromwell Jarrett , who made scientific breakthroughs within post-traumatic stress disorder studies, Judge Sarah T. Hughes , who swore in Lyndon B. Johnson to the presidency, former First Daughter Jessie Woodrow Wilson , and the Academy-Award nominated actress Mildred Dunnock . Living alumni include authors Sarah Pinsker , Darcey Steinke , and Jesse J. Holland ; photographers Ruddy Roye and Rosalind Fox Solomon , federal judges Ellen Lipton Hollander for

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