| 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. |
