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Goucher College
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Motto Gratia et Veritas (Latin)
Motto in English
Grace and Truth
Type Private
Established 1885
Endowment $201.5 million (2016)
President José Antonio Bowen
Academic staff
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.goucher.edu
Goucher College
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Haebler Memorial Chapel, a non-denominational chapel in the heart of Goucher College
Goucher College is located in Maryland
Goucher College
Goucher College is located in the US
Goucher College
Location 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Towson, Maryland
Coordinates 39°24′39″N 76°36′01″W / 39.41083°N 76.60028°W / 39.41083; -76.60028Coordinates: 39°24′39″N 76°36′01″W / 39.41083°N 76.60028°W / 39.41083; -76.60028
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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