Goucher College 2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
Goucher College 2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.

Facts


Date of founding

1885

 

Degrees granted

B.A.; B.P.S.; B.S.; M.A.; M.A.T.; M.Ed.; M.F.A.; M.S.; P.B.C.; P.M.C.

 

Size of student body (Fall 2021)

 

Undergraduates     -    1,114                                                     

Graduate students   -    901                                                  

NOTE: This includes GPEP (there were no GPEP students enrolled due to the pandemic) as well as full-time and part-time students.

            

Undergraduate majors  -    28                                          

Undergraduate courses offered    -     760        

 

Full- and part-time undergraduate faculty  - 148

 

Degrees granted -     27,491 (includes all degrees listed above)                              

 

Endowment   -      $203,430,000                       

 

Preparation of undergraduates

 

Public school                             77%

Private school                            22%

Home school                                1%

 

Size of campus

287 acres

 

Size of undergraduate classes

 

30+                                                2%

20-29                                            21%

10-19                                            57%

2-9                                                20%

               

Library volumes

Number of print items: 250,129

Number of ebooks: 770,032

Number of electronic journals: 66,668

Number of media materials, CDs, DVDS, and streaming files: 57,852

 

Undergraduate student: faculty ratio

9:1

 

The College Seal

The shield within the seal of Goucher College bears against a gold ground, an open book inscribed “I. Thess. Ch. V. Vs. 21” (Prove all things, hold fast that which is good). Below, in the lower left quarter, against a blue field, are three lilies; in the lower right corner are the arms of the state of Maryland and the arms of the family of Lord Baltimore.

 

College colors

Blue and gold

 

College flowers

Ragged robin and coreopsis

 

College presidents

William Hersey Hopkins, 1886-90

John Franklin Goucher, 1891-1908

Eugene Allen Noble, 1908-11

John Blackford Van Meter, acting, 1911-13

William Westley Guth, 1913-29

Hans Froelicher, acting, May 1929-January 1930

Dorothy Stimson, acting, January 1930-June 1930

David Allan Robertson, 1930-48

Otto Frederick Kraushaar, 1948-67

Marvin Banks Perry, Jr., 1967-73

Rhoda Mary Dorsey, 1974-94; acting, 1973-74

Judy Jolley Mohraz, 1994-2000

Robert Stephen Welch, acting, 2000-01

Sanford Jerome Ungar, 2001-14

José Antonio Bowen, 2014-19

Kent Devereaux, 2019-

 

Accreditation

 

Goucher College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. The Elementary Education Program, Special Education Program, and the Secondary Education Program have been approved by the Maryland State Department of Education. The Chemistry Program is approved by the American Chemical Society.

 

Student profile (Fall 2021)

 

Total enrollment                                            

2,015

 

Total candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts                    

1449

 

First-year students                                        

395

 

Sophomores                           

337

 

Juniors                                                                

319

 

Seniors                                                                

279

 

Non-candidate undergraduates     

8

 

Total undergraduate students        

1338

 

Full-time undergraduates                

1318

 

Part-time undergraduates               

20

 

Undergraduate residents/on campus          

85%

 

Master of Education          

274

 

Master of Arts-Teaching   

137 

 

Master of Arts-Arts Administration, Cultural Sustainability, Digital Arts, Environmental Studies, and Historic Preservation 

65

 

Master of Fine Arts                                                        

28

 

Master of Science in Higher Education

17

 

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate-Teaching, Professional Development   

118

 

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate-Premedical        

32

 

Other non-candidate graduate students

48

 

Goucher Prison Education Partnership (GPEP)

111

                                             

Geographic Distribution of Undergraduates (Fall 2019)

Alabama

3

Alaska 1
Arizona 8
Arkansas 1
California 74
Colorado 10
Connecticut 22
Washington D.C. 17
Delaware 11
Florida 18
Georgia 15
Hawaii 5
Idaho 0
Illinois 4
Indiana 5
Iowa 0
Kentucky 3
Louisana 2
Maine 16
Maryland 523
Massachusetts 44
Michigan 1
Minnesota 8
Missouri 1
Nebraska 1
Nevada 5
New Hampshire 21
New Jersey 78
New Mexico 7
New York 129
North Carolina 13
Ohio 9
Oregon 7
Pennsylvania 123
Puerto Rico 8
Rhode Island 3
South Carolina 3
Tennessee 3
Texas 17
Utah 1
Vermont 12
Virginia 46
Virgin Islands 1
Washington 10
West Virginia 0
Wisconsin 7
Foreign Countries 40
TOTAL 1338