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Timeline

1885	State grants charter for Woman’s College of Baltimore City (“City” dropped in 1890).
1888	First classes begin in Goucher Hall.
1892	First college class graduates with five students.
1905	The college’s Beta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa installs its first members.
1910	The college is renamed in honor of John and Mary Fisher Goucher and celebrates its 25th Anniversary.
1915	The first intercollegiate game, basketball, is played against Bryn Mawr.
1921	President William Guth purchases 421 acres in Towson for a new campus. Goucher Alumnae Quarterly begins publication.
1938	Goucher celebrates its 50th Anniversary and holds national architectural competition to design new campus.
1942	Mary Fisher Hall opens as first building and first residence hall on the Towson campus.
1954	College completes move from Baltimore to Towson campus.
1978	Off-campus experience becomes degree requirement.
1985	Goucher celebrates its 100th Anniversary.
1986	Trustees vote to admit men to the undergraduate program.
1990	Goucher enrolls its first graduate students.
1991	First coeducational class graduates.
1993	Faculty, students, and staff join for Morning of Community Service, now mandatory for incoming students.
2001	Sanford J. Ungar is inaugurated as Goucher’s 10th president.
2002	The strategic plan Transcending Boundaries of the Map & the Mind is approved.
2006	Study abroad becomes a degree requirement for undergraduates, beginning with the Class of 2010.
2007	Transcending Boundaries: The Campaign for Goucher College is launched.
2009	The Athenaeum is completed.
2010	Goucher celebrates its 125th Anniversary.