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both math majors who excel at calculus and math-averse students who find themselves struggling just to meet their liberal education requirement in the field. He is a highly successful author of many professional articles and two volumes on the subject of evolution equations. Mark was one of the first members of the Goucher faculty to experiment with online and “discovery-based” learning techniques. La Jerne Terry Cornish, who graduated from Goucher in 1983 and later obtained her master’s degree in education from the college in 1994, is now an associate professor in, and chair of, that department. A former assistant principal in the Baltimore City Public Schools, she actively oversees the secondary education concentration. She is also in the second year of a three-year term as the elected chair of the Goucher faculty. For eight years, La Jerne has led an intensive course abroad to the Eastern Cape region of South Africa, where the Goucher student GOUCHER QUARTERLY | WINTER 2012
participants teach in a village school and work in its community; they and she describe their lives as having been transformed by the experience. These are just five of the extraordinary faculty members who help define the character of Goucher as a liberal arts college. The recommendations of the Crossroads Task Force, recently approved by the Board of Trustees and now being rolled out to the college community and coordinated with Goucher’s newest strategic plan, will bring about important changes in the way we deliver a Goucher education and help us develop
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innovative new programs. Clearly these five professors will play a pivotal role in designing the way forward, and I know that Norma Lynn Fox ’76, now chair of the board, plans to rely heavily on them, as we build on a spirit of collaboration to face the future. We are all very lucky to have them on the task.
Sanford J. Ungar | President
Allyn Massey, associate professor of art and art history, and Matt Wolff ’14 discuss a work-in-progress.