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- The college had a precipitous decline in enrollment and financial stability during and after the Great Depression, weathering the storm under five successive presidents. Its survival was due in part to the reorganization of the six-year preparatory program into a four-year junior college program and in part to steep salary reductions.
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Aug 18, 2021 · Founded in 1853, and a Great Books school since 1950 (it was affiliated with the University of Chicago from 1896 to 1958), Shimer persisted as a fiercely independent liberal arts college,...
The college relocated to Waukegan in 1978 and to Chicago in 2006. In 2017, it was acquired by North Central College which established the Shimer Great Books School to continue offering its curriculum. It has a long reputation as being intellectually original, demanding, and rigorous.
Jan 7, 2015 · It’s been a tough three years since Susan Henking was installed as president of Shimer College, the tiny Great Books school embedded on high-tech IIT’s Bronzeville campus.
Nov 27, 2007 · In October 2006 and January of this year, I reflected here on Chicago’s own great books school, Shimer College. For both posts I was interested, perhaps even concerned, about the college’s move from Waukegan to the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago campus.
Join our community of self-directed learners at the Shimer Great Books School, and engage the great conversation through a classical liberal arts curriculum.
In 2017, Shimer College became the Shimer School of Great Books at North Central College. Characteristics that have been noted to recur throughout Shimer's history, [6] include a unique degree of student involvement in administering the school's affairs.
Feb 25, 2010 · The last time I checked in with Shimer College, late last year, the tiny, fiercely independent Great Books school was embroiled in a battle over what some saw as a right-wing attempt to...
