Goucher Gophers
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| Motto | Gratia et Veritas (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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Grace and Truth |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1885 |
| Endowment | $201.5 million (2016) |
| President | José Antonio Bowen |
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Academic staff
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146 |
| Undergraduates | 1480 |
| Postgraduates | 1200 |
| Location | Towson, Maryland, United States |
| Campus | Rural 287 acre (1.2 km²) |
| Athletics | 17 varsity teams |
| Colors | Blue and Gold |
| Mascot | Gopher |
| Website | www |
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Goucher College
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Haebler Memorial Chapel, a non-denominational chapel in the heart of Goucher College
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| Location | 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Towson, Maryland |
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| Coordinates | 39°24′39″N 76°36′01″W / 39.41083°N 76.60028°WCoordinates: 39°24′39″N 76°36′01″W / 39.41083°N 76.60028°W |
| Area | 287 acres (116 ha) |
| Built | 1921 |
| Architect | Moore & Hutchins; Sasaki, Hideo, et al. |
| Architectural style | Modern Movement |
| NRHP Reference # | 07000885 |
| Added to NRHP | August 28, 2007 |
Goucher College is a private co-educational liberal arts college in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson in unincorporated Baltimore County, Maryland on a 287-acre (1.2 km²) campus. The school has approximately 1,480 undergraduate students studying in 33 majors and six interdisciplinary programs and approximately 1200 students studying in graduate programs. Goucher College and Susquehanna University are the only colleges in the United States that require a study abroad experience.
In 1881, the Baltimore Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church passed a resolution to found a conference seminary. This momentum went largely unquestioned until 1884, when Bishop Andrews objected, "I would not give a fig for a weakling little thing of a seminary. We want such a school, so ample in its provisions, of such dignity in its buildings, so fully provided with the best apparatus, that it shall draw to itself the eyes of the community and that young people shall feel it an honor to be enrolled among its students." Methodist ministers John Franklin Goucher (1845–1922), and John B. Van Meter fought hard in favor of founding a college rather than a seminary, eventually winning unanimous agreement at a later conference. The college succeeded an earlier ground-breaking institution known as the Baltimore Female College, located originally on St. Paul Street near East Saratoga Street (present site of Preston Gardens) from 1849, and later relocated to Park Avenue and Park Place near Wilson Street in Bolton Hill. It had been sponsored by the local Methodist Episcopal Church also, however, under the leadership of noted classics scholar, Nathan C. Brooks, (1809–1898). He was the first principal of the state and city's first public high school (the third oldest in America), founded 1839, now known as The Baltimore City College. It closed in the late 1880s. The new Methodist-sponsored college for women was founded as the "Women's College of Baltimore City" on January 26, 1885. Although students of all religious backgrounds were accepted, as founders, the national denomination (the Methodist Episcopal Church and its Baltimore Annual Conference), had a large impact on the college and its campus.
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