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Faculty and students have historically worked together to keep the college viable. The college has undergone two hotly contested moves, from Mount Carroll, Illinois to Waukegan, Illinois in 1978 and from Waukegan to Chicago in 2006. In 2017, Shimer College became the Shimer School of Great Books at North Central 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.A pioneering institution in its time and place, the Mount Carroll Seminary served as a center of culture and education in 19th-century northwestern Illinois.
Shimer Great Books School (pronounced / ˈ ʃ aɪ m ər / ⓘ SHY-mər) is a Great Books college that is part of North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.Prior to 2017, Shimer was an independent, accredited college on the south side of Chicago, originally founded in 1853.
Mount Carroll is located slightly northwest of the center of Carroll County at (42.095473, -89.977042 U.S. Route 52 passes through the southern part of the city, leading east 7 miles (11 km) to Lanark and west 10 miles (16 km) to Savanna on the Mississippi River.
Shimer people in a Shimer class This is a list 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 a traditional college campus in Mount Carroll, Illinois , from 1853 to 1978, and an improvised campus in Waukegan from 1979 to 2006.
Mount Carroll, Illinois - [[../Mount Carroll articles|Local articles]] Waukegan, Illinois - [[../Waukegan articles|Local articles]] Douglas, Chicago - [[../Chicago articles|Local articles]] Improve articles related to the educational movements of which Shimer is or has been a part Great Books; Early entrance to college; Feminist pedagogy ...
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The buildings of the erstwhile Shimer College campus are chiefly in the Georgian Revival style; they form a traditional college quadrangle. Two buildings that formed part of the Shimer College campus, but were built after 1960, are omitted from the Historic District: these are the Karyn Kupcinet Playhouse and the New Men's Dorm, both of which are separated from the rest of the campus by ...