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School Notes Overview:

Goucher College is dedicated to a liberal arts education that prepares students within a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The college's principal objectives are to help each student master significant areas of knowledge and skills while developing an appreciation for individual and cultural diversity, a sense of social responsibility and a system of personal and professional ethics.

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School Overview:

	Goucher College
Title IV Eligible	Yes
Carnegie Classification	Baccalaureate (Liberal Arts) Colleges I
Institution Level	4 or more years
Institution Control	Private, non-profit
Full-Time Undergraduate	1,306 students
Part-Time Undergraduate	40 students
Full-Time Graduate	141 students
Part-Time Graduate	746 students

Total Enrollment	2,233 students
Total Dormitory Capacity	1,105 students
% Students Receiving Some Financial Aid	83%
% Students Receiving Federal Grants	10%
Avg. Amount Of Federal Grants Received	$4,520
% Students Receiving State/Local Grants	11%
Avg. Amount Of State/Local Grants Received	$2,841
% Students Receiving Institutional Grants	74%
Avg. Amount Of Institutional Grants Received	$13,378
% Students Receiving Loans	43%
Avg. Amount Of Loan Received	$6,757

School Notes:

Goucher is private, coeducational liberal arts and sciences college awarding the bachelor of arts and master's degrees. Goucher enrolls more than 1,350 undergraduate and 1,000 graduate students. It was founded in 1885 and is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
Goucher believes these goals are best achieved in an environment that responds to students both as individuals and as members of multiple groups. Accordingly, education at Goucher is based on an expanding sense of community--a community where discourse is valued and practiced, where students attend small classes and interact closely with faculty and one another, and where students can participate in and lead extracurricular programs.
Goucher is an independent, coeducational liberal arts college located on 287 wooded acres just north of the city of Baltimore. Enrolling more than 2,300 undergraduate and graduate students, Goucher offers a wide variety of majors and encourages students to create individualized, interdisciplinary programs of study.
Goucher offers degrees in 31 majors and offers exceptional, highly motivated students the opportunity to create individualized, interdisciplinary programs of study. Undergraduates are required to participate in at least one international study program, internship, or community service project, testing and enhancing their classroom learning through real, firsthand experience in the field. A Master of Education program, offered in collaboration with Sheppard Pratt Health System, with areas of specialization in urban education, education of at-risk students, reading instruction, schools mediation, school improvement leadership and athletic program administration and leadership.
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Browning Named UVa Men's Lacrosse Volunteer Assistant Coach (University of Virginia Cavaliers)
posted on September 14, 2011 at 06:47:15 pm
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Ryan Browning has joined the Virginia men's lacrosse program as a volunteer coach, as announced by head coach Dom Starsia. Browning comes to UVa after being an assistant coach at Goucher College in Baltimore this past season.
Public Justice Center celebrates alliance with music (The Daily Record)
posted on May 8, 2011 at 10:14:39 pm
At its 20th anniversary gala in 2005, the Public Justice Center knocked the ball out of the park by snagging billionaire philanthropist George Soros as the keynote speaker. For its 25th year-plus one event this week, the nonprofit legal advocacy organization is taking a different tack — hosting a concert of musicians/social advocates at Goucher College. “We [...]
Mary Katherine Scheeler (Baltimore Sun)
posted on April 5, 2011 at 08:10:48 pm
Towson attorney practiced law for 57 years and was a Goucher College trustee and schools advocate Mary Katherine Scheeler, an attorney and Goucher College trustee who often wrote about the Hampton mansion, died of a stroke Thursday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 83 and lived in Towson.
Balto. Co. Fire Department awards firefighters, cilivians for their courage (Owings Mills Times)
posted on March 23, 2011 at 01:26:03 pm
Firefighters and civilians from throughout Baltimore County were honored Tuesday night in the county fire department's annual Promotions and Commendations Ceremony.Held at Goucher College's Kraushaar Auditorium, in Towson, the ceremony recognized 85 career fire and paramedic personnel who were promoted, as well as several fire department personnel and...
Former Hopkins professor Blau debuts second novel (The Johns Hopkins News-Letter)
posted on February 27, 2011 at 11:09:50 pm
Right between the bookshelves, Jessica Anya Blau haunted the bookshelves of Barnes and Noble for the reading of her second novel, Drinking Closer to Home. A sun-kissed California girl, she now teaches at Goucher College though she used to teach at Hopkins, and is a graduate of the Writing Seminars department here.