| 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. |
| 1953 |
College enrolls its first graduate students in master's in education program (which
ran until 1975, before beginning again). |
| 1954 |
College completes move from Baltimore to Towson campus. |
| 1974 |
Rhoda M. Dorsey becomes Goucher's 8th president. |
| 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. |
| 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 is inaugurated as Goucher's 11th president. |
| 2019 |
Kent Devereaux becomes Goucher's 12th president. |
