If you’ve never heard of an Athenaeum, that’s understandable.  Few colleges anywhere have anything like it.

Because the pursuit of wisdom at Goucher is fundamental to daily life, we have woven the various threads of life at Goucher into one signature building. The Athenaeum is the flagship building of our campus—a physical hub that is also the figurative heart of our academic community.

Our Athenaeum is a high-tech library, a public forum, classrooms, a café, an art gallery, a radio station, a center for community service, places to meet and converse, and many other spaces—all in one.

Goucher has never before had a facility that concentrated the energies, talents, and traditions of our campus and community in a single, central location like this. And we need it.

The lifestyles and needs of today's students demand that we rethink the way we provide resources and services to them. They are active 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Technology is changing the way they think, learn, and connect with one another. The diverse aspects of their lives—social, academic, and otherwise—are blending together, and the lines between them are becoming less clear.

The Goucher College Athenaeum is alive with the energy of the people in (and all around it)—coming together at the intellectual, cultural, and social crossroads of the campus.  It represents an important step forward in the evolution of Goucher College and an exciting new shape for the future of liberal arts education.

This is the Athenaeum.