Admissions
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Just like everything else at Goddard, the admissions process is a little different. At Goddard we don't reduce you down to a number like test scores or grades. Here, you're a person with your own story to tell, and we look forward to getting to know you. Since we will be working with you throughout the admissions process, here is an opportunity to get to know a little about us, too.
 Lucinda Garthwaite, Special Assistant to the President
I taught in the Individualized BA program at Goddard from 2002- 2005, and have co-directed the IBA program since. I am also the founding director of the BFA in creative writing program. I am on leave from the IBA program director position this year is to serve as Special Assistant to the President, and part of my responsibility in that role to support admissions and financial aid staff members in their work with potential and current students. My work at Goddard, whatever role I am in, is driven by my strong commitment to progressive education -- education that strives to meet students where they are and help them learn to make the change they want to make in the world, that insists on curiosity and wonder, that is collaborative and transformative. I enjoy conversations with people who are interested in applying to Goddard, because they are (you are) by and large interesting, curious people with compelling stories to tell. I am otherwise a poet, teacher, step-parent, bike rider, and very amateur worker with wood. I graduated from the University of New Hampshire at Durham with a BA in Sociology in 1979, and and MEd in Counseling in 1983. I earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard in 1996. |
 Lara Duston, Admissions Counselor
I have an unshakable belief in people and their ability to grow, and it is my pleasure to encourage and coach nontraditional students as they contemplate returning to school. I was myself a nontraditional graduate student, and empathize with the unique challenges adult learners face. During my graduate work (which was very interdisciplinary), I developed a passionate commitment to and serious intellectual curiosity about the transformational possibilities of education, and that’s why I’ve found a home at Goddard. I have been at Goddard since the Spring of 2006, and work with applicants to the BA and MA in Education and Licensure Program, the BA and MA in Health Arts and Sciences Program, the BFA in Creative Writing Program, and the MA in Socially Responsible Business and Sustainable Communities Program. Outside of work, I enjoy: autumn leaves, yoga on the beach, 19th century Russian novels, and just about anything to do with Ireland.
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 Erin Johnson, Admissions Counselor
My experience of progressive and internally motivated education began in my youth as a homeschooler and continued as I made my work and education choices as an adult. I was a self-employed professional figure skating instructor before I was a college freshman, I traveled the world before learning to write an annotated bibliography, and chose to gain my bachelor’s degree when I was older than most students in graduate school.
It has always made me tremendously sad to see an individual suffering in an educational setting due to the lack of knowledge that there are other ways to be and become educated. From the beginning of my college experience at the local community college, I was especially aware of the difference between my fellow students who were attending under their own intrinsic motivation and those who were attending because it was what they were “supposed to do” post high school. I wholly believe in the power of self ownership of one’s education, and am honored to have the opportunity to work in Admissions at Goddard and advocate for a self-directed mode of education.
Outside of education my interests are local music, local food, biking, anything in the snow and skating on frozen ponds.
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 David De Lucca, Admissions Counselor
At one time or another, I’ve represented all of Goddard’s programs, but currently I work with those interested in the MFA in Creative Writing, the Individualized MA, and the Psychology & Counseling MA. I returned to college years after having dropped out at the age of 17, dismayed by the academic rigidity and massively impersonal approach of the large state university that I had naively chosen. I flourished at a very small college with similarities to Goddard, though, and earned a BA in philosophy. My interests include music, politics, hiking, literature, and fortean phenomena, and I love animals.
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 Philip Robertson, Admissions Specialist
My Goddard experience started well over a decade ago when I became interested in Goddard as a student wanting to get my graduate degree outside of the traditional university setting. Many years later I found myself working at Goddard as both an employee and as a student in the Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts program. My interests outside of work include my artistic practice as a printmaker, art history and various aspects of pop culture. I work with applicants to the MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts Program.
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