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.
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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.
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1938 |
Goucher celebrates its 50th Anniversary and holds national architectural competition
to design new campus.
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1942 |
Mary Fisher Hall opens as first building and first residence hall on the Towson campus. |
1953 |
College enrolls its first graduate students in master's in education program (which
ran until 1975, before beginning again).
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1954 |
College completes move from Baltimore to Towson campus. |
1974 |
Rhoda M. Dorsey becomes Goucher's 8th president.
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1978 |
Off-campus experience becomes degree requirement. |
1985 |
Goucher celebrates its 100th Anniversary. |
1986 |
Trustees vote to admit men to the undergraduate program. |
1991 |
First coeducational class graduates. |
1993 |
Faculty, students, and staff join for Morning of Community Service, now a tradition for
incoming students.
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1994 |
Judy Mohraz is inaugurated as Goucher's 9th president. |
2001 |
Sanford J. Ungar is inaugurated as Goucher’s 10th president. |
2014 |
Dr. Jose Antonio Bowen becomes Goucher's 11th president. |
2014 |
The Goucher Video Application, the first in the nation, is created. |