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    Shimer College was founded in 1852, when the pioneer town of Mt. Carroll, Illinois, lacking a public school, incorporated the Mt. Carroll Seminary with...
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  • Shimer Great Books School (pronounced /ˈʃaɪmər/ SHY-mər) is a Great Books college that is part of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Prior...
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  • The Shimer Great Books School Core Program is a curriculum sequence of 16 required courses in humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and interdisciplinary...
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    became Shimer College, in Mount Carroll, Illinois. She was also the sole proprietress of the school from 1870 to her retirement in 1896. Frances Shimer was...
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    of notable students and faculty of Shimer College, a Great Books college that was acquired in 2017 by North Central College. Founded in 1853, Shimer occupied...
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    Central College. In June 2017, North Central College acquired Shimer College and instituted the Shimer Great Books School of North Central College. The college...
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  • Associate Fellow at Yale University. Shimer graduated from Yale University with bachelor's and master's degrees in history and was a Marshall Scholar and a...
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    Books" curriculum college in Chicago, to allow Harold Washington students to take classes at Shimer while paying City Colleges level of tuition. Accredited...
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  • graduates. Although the University of Chicago eventually abandoned this program, it was adopted by tiny Shimer College in 1950, and continues there in a...
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  • William Allison Shimer (1894-1983) was an American professor of philosophy. From 1932 to 1943 he served as the first editor of the Phi Beta Kappa Society's...
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    Enrollment at Shimer for Oakton College Students". Shimer College. 2014-12-29. Retrieved 2015-01-09. "Map of Suburban Community College Districts in Cook...
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    Chicago) Shimer College (1853–2017, Mount Carroll, Waukegan, Chicago), merged with North Central College in Naperville in 2017 Solex College (1995–2018...
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  • Barre Seid (category Shimer College people)
    a public records request. From 2007 to 2008, Seid gave $825,000 to Shimer College as an anonymous donor through his foundation. His donation was later...
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    Susan Henking (category Presidents of Shimer College)
    scholar. She is currently the 20th president of Wells College. She was the 14th and final president of Shimer College in Chicago from 2012 to 2017. She then...
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    Mount Carroll Historic District (category Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois)
    original campus of Chicago's Shimer College, now occupied by the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies. The great majority of the buildings...
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    curriculum at St. John's or Shimer, or the radically interdisciplinary curriculum of Marlboro. In addition, most liberal arts colleges are primarily residential...
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  • Bible College (1939–1991), in Oregon Robert Morris University Illinois (1913-2020), Chicago, merged with Roosevelt University. Shimer College (1853–2017...
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    Crosby, ed. (1940). American Junior Colleges. American Council on Education. Glass, Rose (1953). "Shimer College History (1853–1950)" . In Hostetter, A. Beth...
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  • Mount Carroll Seminary (category Shimer College)
    The Mount Carroll Seminary was the name of Shimer College from 1853 to 1896. The Seminary was located in Mount Carroll, Illinois, in the United States...
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    Albin C. Bro (category Presidents of Shimer College)
    president of Shimer College. Bro was born in Prentice, Wisconsin, on September 4, 1893. In 1917, he graduated as valedictorian from Northland College with...
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    Jinny Osborn (category Shimer College alumni)
    also the president of the Kingsbury Breweries Company. Osborn attended Shimer College, which at the time was a four-year junior college, for the 11th and...
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    Robert Keohane (category Shimer College alumni)
    attended public school and his parents taught at Shimer College. After the 10th grade, Keohane enrolled at Shimer through the school's early entrance program...
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    Francis Joseph Mullin (category Presidents of Shimer College)
    seventh president of Shimer College. He was raised Catholic, but became an Episcopalian as a teenager. He was key in engineering Shimer's brief period as...
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    Alan Dowty (category Shimer College alumni)
    relations, Israel and the history of Zionism, Israeli politics and the Arab–Israeli conflict. Dowty earned a B.A. from Shimer College (1959) and an M.A. and...
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    William Parker McKee (category Presidents of Shimer College)
    of Shimer College from 1897 to 1930, a position known at the time as "Dean". During this period the school was known by turns as the Frances Shimer Academy...
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    Mary Nourse (category Shimer College alumni)
    later moved to Downers Grove, Illinois, in the suburbs of Chicago. Nourse attended Shimer College, which at the time was located in Mount Carroll, Illinois...
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  • Director of the Peace Corps Andrew Harvey, Professor of English and noted author on religion and mysticism. Susan Henking, President of Shimer College, Professor...
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  • Columbia College Chicago is a private art college in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1890, it has 6,493 students (as of fall 2021) pursuing...
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    financial and corporative history, closing repeatedly, for years at a time, until new funding was assembled. Antioch College began opening new campuses...
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    Dorian Electra (category Shimer College alumni)
    of the Woods, a Montessori high school in Houston. Electra was the founder of their high school's philosophy club. They then attended Shimer College,...
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