Word: goucher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high school students, some of whom continue to regard single-sex schools as anachronisms or even convents. Not all are succeeding. A number of small isolated Roman Catholic women's colleges continue to struggle against stagnant enrollments. And over the past two years, Wheaton College in Massachusetts and Goucher in Maryland have abandoned the battle and gone coed. Russell Sage in New York was considering conversion last spring, but after completing a 15-month study of other colleges that had gone coed, administrators decided not to tamper with 71 years of tradition...
Typically, an invitation to visit as a full professor carries an implied offer of a permanent post in the future. But Baker said that this spring she removed herself from consideration for a tenured post because she did not want to leave her current position at Goucher College. She is the author of the recently published "Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biographpy," and will be returning to the Baltimore-area school next semester...
Jonathan Monheit is more than just a big man on campus. He is the only man on campus. When the 19-year-old freshman transferred to Goucher College near Baltimore in January, he was the first male to enroll full time since the school decided to go coed last year. The distinction has its burdens. Monheit lives in a dormitory guest room, gets ribbed by male friends and, when introduced to otherwise supportive Goucher peers, is often greeted with "Oh, so you're the one." Says he: "You get a very isolated feeling sometimes...
Founded in 1885, Goucher went coed in an effort to reverse declining enrollment, currently around 850. "The presence of a full-time male student has made a statement," says President Rhoda Dorsey, pointing to a 51% rise in applications. Some 100 came from men, so Monheit will not be a lone pioneer for long. That suits him fine. He would rather follow quietly in the footsteps of his mother, Goucher...
Educators criticize some of these plans as too gimmicky and bottom-line oriented, with too little emphasis on students' abilities. Among the more controversial programs: Goucher College's 100th-anniversary gift of two scholarships at 1885 rates ($100 per year), and Fairleigh Dickinson's "twofdr," under which a student's sibling can enter at half the regular tuition of $5,670. One critic of such gambits is Bard President Leon Botstein, who scorns them as "desperate marketing of a silly kind" designed for show rather than education. Citing his plan, which is limited to students who rank among...