Torch with four vases on black background, in which circle with words Shimer College and year 1853 | |
Former names | Mount Carroll Seminary, Frances Shimer Academy |
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Motto | Non Ministrari Sed Ministrare |
Motto in English | Not to be served, but to serve |
Type | Private, Coeducational, Undergraduate, Liberal arts |
Established | 1853 |
President | Edward J. Noonan (interim) |
Academic staff | 15 (2009) |
Students | 100 (2009) |
Location | , , 41°49′55″N 87°37′33″W / 41.83194°N 87.62583°W |
Campus | Urban |
Colors | Burgundy and Gold |
Mascot | Flaming Smelt[1] |
Website | www.shimer.edu |
white tree above number 1853 on maroon octagonal background with year 1853 next to words Shimer The Great Books College of Chicago |
Shimer College (often shortened to Shimer; Template:Pron-en SHYE-mər) is a liberal arts college in Chicago, Illinois, United States. One of the oldest private educational institutions in the Midwest and one of the smallest colleges in the country, Shimer is also one of the few colleges committed to the Great Books curriculum championed by educators Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins in the early 20th century. It was founded in 1853 as the Mt. Carroll Seminary in the frontier town of Mt. Carroll, Illinois by Frances Wood Shimer. Rare in its day, it was a women's school for most of its early years. It joined with the University of Chicago (U. of C.) in 1896, and became one of the first Junior Colleges in the country in 1907. It became a co-educational four-year college in 1950, took the name Shimer College, and adopted the Hutchins Plan of Great Books and Socratic seminars then in practice at the U. of C. The U. of C. relationship ended in 1958. Shimer thrived in the 1960s but was forced by financial problems to abandon its campus in 1979. The college moved to a makeshift campus in the Chicago suburb of Waukegan where it remained until 2006, when it moved to the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).
Classes are exclusively small seminars in which students discuss original source material in lieu of textbooks. The Core Curriculum, a sequence of courses in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and integrated studies makes up two thirds of the course work required for a degree. Two comprehensive examinations and a thesis are also required to graduate. Shimer has offered a study abroad program in Oxford, England since 1963 and a Weekend Program for working adults since 1981. A Teaching Fellows program offers graduate-level coursework for primary and secondary school teachers. Applicants are evaluated on their academic potential, primarily based on an essay, and no minimum grades or test scores are required. An Early Entrant program, in place since 1950, allows students who have not yet completed high school to matriculate. Shimer has been highly rated in reviews of small liberal arts colleges and has one of the highest rates of doctoral productivity of any college in the country. Fifty percent of students go on to graduate study; twenty percent complete doctorate degrees.
The campus was designed by "one of the great figures of 20th-century architecture",[2] Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The American Institute of Architects named it one of the 200 most significant works of architecture in the United States and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Shimer practices democratic self-governance to "an extent that is rare among institutions of higher education."[3] Since 1977, the college has been governed internally by faculty, staff, and students working through a structure of committees and an egalitarian deliberative body called the Assembly. Shimer enrolled 100 students in 2009. Students maintain Shimer College traditions but also participate in the student life of IIT. Notable alumni include poets, authors, political theorists, experimental artists, and computing pioneers.
History
One of the oldest private educational institutions in the Midwest, the school was founded in 1852, when the pioneer town of Mt. Carroll, Illinois, lacking a public school, incorporated Mt. Carroll Seminary with no land, no teachers, and no money.[5][6][a] The town persuaded upstate New York schoolteacher Frances Wood and her classmate Cindarella Gregory to come west to the prairie to teach, and on May 11, 1853 the new seminary opened with 11 students in a local church.[7] Failing to raise enough money locally, the founders borrowed money to start a building in 1854, but discouraged by the financial picture, sold the school to Wood and Gregory, who borrowed the money to buy it.[6] In 1857, Wood married Henry Shimer, a mason to whom the seminary owed money, who gave Wood, and later the school, his name.[8]
In 1864, over-enrollment forced the school to accept only female students, a rarity at the time, when few women were educated and few schools would educate them.[9] Money problems continued. In 1896, bowing to financial pressure, Frances Shimer reached an agreement with the University of Chicago (U. of C.) and the school became the Frances Shimer Academy of the University of Chicago, at the same time associating loosely with the Baptist Church.[10][11] Frances Shimer retired, never to set foot on campus again; she died in 1901.[12] A Junior College program was added in 1907—one of the first in the nation.[11] The junior college was accredited in 1920.[13]
Then called Frances Shimer Junior College, and still struggling for survival, Shimer became a four-year co-educational college in 1950.[11] Renamed Shimer College, it formed an even more intimate bond with the U. of C., from which Shimer received its Great Books curriculum.[11] Its affiliation with the Episcopal Church in 1959, which would continue for fifteen years, was an additional source of much needed funds.[14] The U. of C. connection ended in 1958 but the Great Books program at Shimer lived on, and the school thrived through the 1960s, achieving national recognition and rapid growth in enrollment.[15] In 1963 a Harvard Educational Review article named it one of 11 college campuses with an “ideal intellectual climate.”[16] A 1966 study in the education journal Phi Delta Kappan reported that Shimer "present[ed] impressive statistical evidence that their students are better prepared for graduate work in the arts and sciences and in the professions than those who have specialized in particular areas."[17]
In the late 1960s, Shimer experienced a period of internal unrest known as "the 'Grotesque Internecine Struggle' which resulted in half of the faculty and a large percentage of the students resigning from the College."[18] Shimer was in deep financial straits and teetered on the edge of survival. The trustees voted to close the college at the end of 1973, but the school was saved by a desperate fund raising campaign.[19][20] Three times in the next four years, the trustees would vote to shut it down, only to later vote to reopen it.[21] Finally succumbing to bankruptcy in 1977, the trustees "put responsibility for the school's continuing on the shoulders of a very dedicated faculty of 12 and students who volunteered",[21] under the leadership of Don Moon, a nuclear engineer and episcopal priest who had joined the faculty in 1967.[22]
I don't care if we only pay our way for a time, if we can ultimately have a school that will be appreciated.
Frances Wood Shimer, c. 1853
Accepting an invitation from the city of Waukegan, Illinois, a declining industrial suburb north of Chicago, the faculty and 62 students borrowed trucks and moved the college into two "run down"[24] homes over Christmas break in 1978.[24] Classes began on schedule in January, 1979. Over the next two and one half decades, Shimer purchased twelve of the surrounding homes to form a makeshift campus and slowly made progress towards financial stability.[25] The college emerged from bankruptcy in 1980.[26] By 1988 enrollment had climbed from a low of 40 to 114 and income exceeded expenses. Shimer won a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1991, with the help of then chair and core-curriculum advocate Lynne Cheney, that helped the school raise US$2 million and revitalized fund raising.[25][23]That same year, Shimer regained its accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, which it had lost in 1980 due to the bankruptcy.[27]
Struggling with stagnating enrollment, in 2006 Shimer again accepted an invitation to move, this time to the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago.[28] Shimer attracted national attention in 2009 when the school became "embroiled in a battle over what some saw as a right wing attempt to take over its board and administration”[29] under then recently appointed president Thomas Lindsay.[30] Lindsay stepped down in April 2010, following votes of no confidence by the faculty, the alumni, and the Assembly (Shimer's democratic governing body).[31]
Academics
Shimer is one of only four US colleges that identify themselves as Great Books schools.[32][33][b] The Great Books movement had its beginning in the work of John Erskine, who championed a Socratic seminar using great books at Columbia University in 1919.[34][35] This seminar profoundly impacted Mortimer Adler, who came to believe that the role of education was to engage student's minds "in the study of individual works of merit ... accompanied by a discussion of the ideas, the values, and the forms embodied in such products of human art."[36] Adler brought these ideas with him to the University of Chicago, where they were embraced wholeheartedly by Robert Maynard Hutchins, who led the University from 1929 to 1951.[37][38][ c] In 1931, Hutchins' implemented the "New Plan" or "Chicago Plan" (which quickly became known as the "Hutchins Plan").[39]
The Chicago program comprised sequences in the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences which were supposed to integrate past and present work within these divisions of knowledge. In addition, these sequences were capped by work in philosophy and history. The emphasis in teaching was on small classes with bright students, where discussion could supplant monologue as the dominant pedagogic technique.... At the same time, in order to retain high academic standards and contact with the "frontiers of knowledge," the College's pedagogy emphasized reading originals (sometimes although not invariably, defined as Great Books).[17][d]
Shimer, which had been affiliated with the University since 1896, "adopted the Hutchins plan in toto in 1950, complete with Chicago syllabi, comprehensive examinations, and instructors."[40] When the University abandoned the program in the late 1950s, Shimer continued it, modified it, and made the program its own. Small seminars in which everyone learns from one another remain central to the Shimer education. This process of co-inquiry applies across the curriculum and even natural sciences are taught via discussion.
... that the best way to a liberal education in the West is through the greatest works the West has produced, is still, in our view, the best educational idea there is.
Robert Maynard Hutchins, The Great Conversation[41]
"It is understood that, in an important sense, the text is the teacher, and thus the faculty member's role is to facilitate interaction between the text and the students."[40] Faculty are referred to as "facilitators" and are always addressed by first name. Classes, composed of on average eight and no more than twelve students, read and discuss only original source material.[32][42] Readings are organized by broad historical and philosophical themes, rather than conventional fields. The 200 book reading list remains largely true to the original Hutchins plan but "new works are judiciously added to those forming the core curriculum, particularly in light of those voices originally overlooked in the formation of the canon."[43] It now includes, for example, works by Virginia Woolf, Martin Luther King, Jr., Carol Gilligan, Frantz Fanon, and Michel Foucault, among others.[43]
As of 2009, Shimer had eleven full-time and two part-time faculty, for a student-faculty ratio of eight to one.[44] Ninety-three percent of the faculty hold doctorate degrees. Roughly a third of the faculty were among those who brought the school from Mt. Carroll to Waukegan in 1978; the average tenure is over 21 years.[42] Shimer instructors teach across disciplines and the “ideal is that any faculty member can teach any one of the core courses.”[23][ e] In Shimer’s system of co-inquiry, teachers facilitate discussion but may talk little. It is not unknown for Weekend Program visitors to “sit in on a class for an hour—and not know which one … was the faculty member.”[23]
Curriculum
Degree programs
Shimer awards Bachelor's degrees with concentrations in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences. Two-thirds of the courses needed to graduate are required Core Courses. The remainder are electives, nearly all of which must be in the student's chosen area of concentration. Electives include in-depth work in a particular field beyond what the Core provides, often offered on a tutorial basis with one or two students per course, and basic skills courses in languages and mathematics.[45] Electives may also be taken at IIT and the Vandercook College of Music, also located on the IIT campus, and include courses in laboratory science, advanced mathematics, and music history and theory.[46]
Core curriculum
The Core Curriculum is a sequence of sixteen required courses in Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and interdisciplinary Studies. The Basic Studies courses, numbered one and two, are generally taken during the first two years and the Advanced Studies courses, numbered three and four, during the final two. The Advanced Integrative courses, numbered five and six, are taken in the final year.[47]
Humanities | Social Sciences | Natural Sciences | Integrative Studies | |
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One | Art and Music | Society, Culture, and Personality | Laws and Models in Chemistry | Analysis, Logic, and Rhetoric |
Two | Poetry, Drama, and Fiction | The Western Political Tradition | Evolution, Genetics, and Animal Behavior | The Nature and Creation of Mathematics |
Basic Studies Comprehensive Examination | ||||
Three | Philosophy and Theology | Modern Theories of State and Society | Light, Motion, and Scientific Explanation | |
Four | Critical Evaluation in the Humanities (Enlightenment to the Present) | Methodology in the Social Sciences | Quantum Physics and Molecular Biology | |
Area Studies Comprehensive Examination | ||||
Five | History and Philosophy of Western Civilization: From the Ancient World Through the Middle Ages | |||
Six | History and Philosophy of Western Civilization: From the Middles Ages Through the Nineteenth Century | |||
Senior Thesis |
The core humanities courses include the study of visual art, music, literature, philosophy and theology. They culminate with the critical evaluation of significant works of the 18th century and later in the final course, Critical Evaluation in the Humanities, which seeks "to unify the previous Humanities courses by approaching all of the areas of the Humanities in a more theoretical fashion."[49] Students explore literary and aesthetic theory and how they apply across the humanities, through readings which include Martin Buber's I and Thou, Susanne Langer's Feeling and Form, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment, Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, and Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling.[50]
The social sciences core "embraces the wide range of thought on society, culture, and the individual, and the disciplines of political philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and linguistics as well as 'social science' narrowly construed."[51] The final course of the sequence, Theories of Social Inquiry, integrates the study of social science by focusing on the questions of if and how society can be studied scientifically, introducing students to the statistical and interpretive methods in sociology, linguistic theory, and recent developments in social thought through the study of works including Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures, Paolo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish, and Karl Mannheim's Ideology and Utopia.[52]
The natural sciences core studies science in its historical development, beginning with the presocratic philosophers of the 6th century B.C. and moving progressively to the theory of atoms, the theory of evolution, animal behavior, the nature of light, and the theory of relativity. The sequence concludes with the study of quantum physics and molecular biology. Original sources read in the natural science curriculum include Albert Einstein’s Relativity, Isaac Newton’s Opticks, Richard Feynman’s QED, Antoine Lavoisier’s Elements of Chemistry, and Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species.[53]
The basic integrative studies courses teach the fundamental skills in analysis, logic, and rhetoric required to work with original source texts and impart an understanding of mathematics by studying mathematical and geometrical systems in ancient and modern times. The advanced integrative courses, numbered five and six, are designed as a unified, full-year sequence to be taken in the last year of studies. The readings are arranged chronologically to demonstrate their historical relationship to one another and students explore a wide range of connections between the texts and those they have studied in other courses. The sequence begins, for example, with the reading of The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Illiad of Homer and The Bible, and concludes at the end of the year with study of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Reason in History.[54]
Writing projects, comprehensive examinations, and thesis
Students are required to complete a Semester Project during the final week of each term (known as Writing Week), on a topic they choose in conjunction with their advisor. The project does not receive a grade, but is reviewed by the student's instructors in a Final Conference and must be accepted before the student can register for the following semester.[55]
Students must pass two comprehensive examinations to graduate. After completing the Basic Studies courses, students must pass the Basic Studies Comprehensive Examination to continue on to higher level courses. Later, after completing the Advanced Studies courses, they must pass at least one Area Studies Comprehensive Examination, usually in their area of concentration. Each comprehensive examination involves several days of reading and writing, and may include an oral component, as well. Students are also required to complete a substantial research paper before registering for the Advanced Integrative Studies Courses.[55]
A Senior Thesis "represents the culmination of the student’s academic experience at Shimer."[55] Completed during the course of their fourth year, it usually takes the form of an analytical or expository essay, but may be a piece of original fiction, poetry, a performance, or a work of visual art. Students are encouraged to defend their theses orally and the public is invited to these defenses.[55]
Special programs
The Weekend Program, founded in 1981, allows working adults to participate in an intensive schedule of classes, meeting every third weekend, which allows them to graduate in four years.[56][57] Students, who have ranged in age from 23 to 70, are drawn from all over the country; "weekend students have been known to commute from as far as Florida and New York."[58][59] The program enrolled 35 to 40 students in 2010.[60]
Shimer first offered a year of study abroad, in Paris, in 1961 and has held the program annually in Oxford, England since 1963.[61][62] The Shimer-in-Oxford program allows eight to fifteen students to spend either one or two semesters in Oxford with a Shimer professor.[63] The students, who are in their third and fourth years, take one course from the core curriculum each term and the remainder of their work as individual or very small group tutorials with academics from in and around the University of Oxford in subjects the students select themselves.[64]
The Teaching Fellows Program offers graduate-level Great Books course designed for kindergarten through 12th grade (ages five through eighteen) school teachers. Shimer does not award graduate degrees; teachers can earn professional development credit through the program. "The program is designed to complement traditional methods-focused education courses by giving teachers the background knowledge they need to deliver content-rich curricula."[65] The program was developed in conjunction with the Core Knowledge Foundation, which was founded in 1986 by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., author of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know,[66] to promote a common core of learning in elementary school education.[67]
Shimer offers certain special programs in conjunction with other schools in the Chicago area. The Great Books + Law program, launched in 2007, is offered in conjunction with the Chicago-Kent College of Law (the Law School of the Illinois Institute of Technology) and allows students to count their first year of law school towards their Shimer degree and receive their J.D. in a total of five years instead of seven.[68] A joint program has been operated since 2009 with Harold Washington College (HWC), one of the very few Community Colleges to offer a Great Books program, which allows HWC students to take one Shimer course.[69] It is meant to encourage students to transfer to Shimer and complete their Bachelor's degree.[70]
Admission
Applicants are evaluated on their academic potential—no minimum grade point average (GPA) or test score is required. "The goal of Shimer College is to accept students who will benefit from and contribute to its intellectual community."[71] Applicants are asked to write an essay analyzing their academic experience, in which they are encouraged to display their creative talents. This, along with a personal interview, is the major criteria for admission.[72] For Weekend Program students, who have typically been out of school for some years, work and prior college experience are also taken into account.[63] Nearly 90 percent of applicants are admitted,[73] "but they counsel candidates closely to reduce frivolous applications."[74] The average GPA of incoming students is 3.29 (on a four point scale).[75] Average composite scores on the ACT and SAT, standardized college admissions tests widely used in the U.S., are 28 (at the 92nd percentile) and 1917 (at the 90th percentile), respectively.[75][76]
Shimer's Early Entrant program, which admits students who have not yet graduated from high school, was first launched in 1950 with support from the Ford Foundation.[23] The program has continued since then with support from the Carnegie Foundation and others.[77] Students enter after the 11th grade (around age 17), and sometimes 10th grade (around age 16), and follow the same curriculum as all other students. The college will consider the application of any interested student, and "motivation, willingness to learn, and intellectual curiosity are the most important qualifications."[71] Shimer also actively encourages applications from home-schooled students, and makes special accommodations for their credentials (for example, their lack of transcripts).[78] In 2008, 16 percent of new students were early entrants or home-schooled students of a similar age.[79]
Recognition and accomplishments
Academic rankings | |
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Liberal arts | |
U.S. News & World Report[80] | NR |
Washington Monthly[81] | 82 |
For 2009, Shimer was ranked #82 among liberal arts colleges by Washington Monthly (WM), while it was unranked by U.S. News & World Report (USNWR).[82][83] In 2006, Shimer was selected as one of the top fifty colleges in All-American Colleges: Top Schools for Conservatives, Old-fashioned Liberals, and People of Faith, which highlights "programs that connect in a special way with the core values of the American founding and the vibrant intellectual traditions of the West."[84] Barron's named Shimer one of the 300 best buys in college education, noting that "the success of the Shimer curriculum depends a great deal on the knowledge and skill of the faculty facilitators, who receive accolades ranging from 'fanastic' to 'brilliant'".[85] In 2000, Insight Magazine named Shimer one of the most politically incorrect schools in the nation, a list which recognized "colleges that had strong and effective traditional curricula that were not obsessed with the recent educational fads and fetishes such as multiculturalism and diversity."[86]
In 2007, Shimer joined a national effort by the Educational Conservancy to boycott participation in college rankings surveys altogether.[87] Said then President William Craig Rice, "what Shimer does well—educating ourselves in on-going dialogue with the greatest minds of the past—can’t be captured in the U.S. News measurements."[88] Nearly all Shimer students take the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), a standardized test for graduate school admissions, their senior year, outscoring three of four potential graduate students and "consistently rank among the best in the nation in scores on the verbal and analytical portions of the test", with average analytic scores in the 91st percentile.[89][90] A 2009 report by The Washington Monthly ranked Shimer third in graduates' Ph.D. rate among U.S. liberal arts colleges.[91] In a 1998 study by the University of Wisconsin, Shimer was found to have the highest rate of doctoral productivity of any liberal arts college and the third highest of any undergraduate program in the nation.[89] Studies based on data from the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (HEDS) found Shimer to have seventh-highest Ph.D. productivity rate of all US colleges and universities and the highest rate for Ph.D.s in linguistics.[92][93]
Campus
Shimer relocated to the main campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2006, after 25 years in its former location, a loose collection of vintage houses, an old YWCA, and an apartment building in Waukegan, Illinois.[95][96] Then president William Craig Rice believed that the new location would offer "access to a wider pool of students and benefactors,"[97] as well as expanded student services (such as dining and athletic facilities) and opportunities to cooperate academically with IIT.[98][99]
The 120-acre (49 ha) campus is centered around 33rd and State Streets, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the Chicago Loop in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago.[100][101] Also known as the Black Metropolis District, the area is a landmark in African-American history for the many notable African-American people and institutions that thrived there in the mid-20th century.[102] The extant structures from that period were added jointly to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 and designated a Chicago Landmark in 1998.[103][104]
The campus was designed by "one of the great figures of 20th-century architecture",[2] modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Van der Rohe's master plan for the IIT campus was one of the most ambitious projects he ever conceived and the campus, with twenty of his works, is the greatest concentration of his buildings in the world.[105] The campus was landscaped by van der Rohe's close colleague Alfred Caldwell, "the last representative of the Prairie School of landscape architects."[106][107] In 1976, American Institute of Architects named the IIT campus one of the 200 most significant works of architecture in the United States.[108] The IIT Main Campus was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[109]
Shimer occupies 17,000 square feet (1,600 m2) on the first and second floors of what was formerly the Institute of Gas Technology Complex as part of a long-term lease agreement with IIT.[111] The complex, designed by van der Rohe, consists of four buildings built between 1947 and 1955.[112] The South building was home to the first industrial nuclear reactor in the U.S.[112] Shimer students who choose to live on-campus reside in Gunsaulus Hall, which was converted into a fully-furnished apartment-style residence in 2008.[113][114] Shimer has access to the resources of the Paul V. Galvin Library, IIT's main research library, which contains 1.8 million volumes, more than 25,500 journal titles, and a wide range of digital resources.[115] Shimer's own collection of 15,000 books is also housed in the Galvin library, where it was moved when the school relocated from Waukegan.[116]
Facilities available to Shimer students include the McCormick Tribune Campus Center (MTCC), which was designed by internationally acclaimed architect Rem Koolhaas in 2003.[110] [117] The facility is the main student activity center, with food courts, a newsstand, lounge areas, conference centers, computer workstations, a bookstore, and an auditorium.[117] Students may also take advantage of the Keating Sports Center, the main athletic complex and home to IIT's varsity teams. The center offers racquetball courts, bowling, rock climbing, and a wide range of dance and exercise classes along with basketball, volleyball, soccer and other team sports.[118]
Governance
Shimer College is a not-for-profit corporation with a self-perpetuating Board of Trustees responsible for the affairs and the assets of the College. The Board delegates authority to the President of the College, who acts as the chief executive administrator, and to the Dean of the College and the faculty regarding academic affairs.[119] As of December 2009, the Board had 36 members (including three students and two faculty), with a target membership of 40, and was chaired by Christopher B. Nelson, President of St. John's College.[120][121]
According to the Shimer catalog, "as a function of its mission to promote active citizenship, Shimer College is devoted to internal self-governance to an extent that is rare among institutions of higher education."[3] Since 1977, Shimer has been governed internally by faculty, staff, and students working through a structure of committees and a deliberative body called the Assembly, through which "students can influence the operation of the College and participate in its responsibilities as well as benefits."[63] Begun informally in the years immediately prior to the move to Waukegan, the Assembly was formalized by a Constitution in 1980.[122] "The Assembly deliberates all matters which affect the integrity of the College as a community ... it defines and protects the basic moral law or essential ethos of the College."[123] The Assembly is a participatory democracy, which has no legal authority, but "governs by virtue of the moral suasion established by communal deliberation." [124] Voting members of the Assembly include all students, faculty, administrators, staff and trustees. Alumni are also members but do not vote.[124] The Assembly advises the administration and conducts the business of the college through a system of committees with purview over matters of administration, academic planning, budgeting, admissions, grievances, financial aid, and quality of life. Committees are composed of faculty, staff, and students elected by the Assembly as a whole.[125]
Student life
"One of the smallest liberal arts colleges in the United States,"[126] Shimer enrolled 100 students in 2009, from 22 states and two other countries; the majority came from Illinois.[44] Over 80 percent of the students were white and 40 percent were over age 25.[127] Students tend to be "individualistic, creative thinkers, given to questioning—a quality Shimer encourages."[128] Of full-time students who attend their first year, 70 percent return for their second. Fifty-five percent of first-time, full-time students will graduate within six years.[127] Students who "have not found personal satisfaction in more standard educational settings ... often flourish in Shimer’s unconventional atmosphere."[129]Fraternities, sororities and other organizations that promote exclusivity are not allowed and Shimer has no organized clubs or athletic programs of its own.[130] The college has a tradition of community meals, which all are invited to attend, that dates back to the early days on the Waukegan campus, when the whole community would meet for potluck meals and discuss matters of general interest in gatherings that eventually gave birth to the Assembly.[122] The Orange Horse, Shimer's bi-annual talent show, is a tradition dating back to the 1960s and invites students, faculty, and alumni to read poetry, sing, play music, or tell jokes, individually or in groups.[131]
The Shimer theater program has been under the direction of Humanities Professor Eileen Buchanan since 1967. Buchanan, also a professional actor and director, directs productions "complementing the curriculum and, at the same time, affording anyone on campus who wants to work in theatre the chance to do so."[132] Productions in the Chicago location have included Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya,[133] Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues,[134] and an adaptation of Raymond Chandler's "Trouble Is My Business".[135]
In addition to the resources of the MTCC and the athletic facilities, Shimer students are able to take part in the more than 150 student organizations sponsored by IIT,[42] including Liit Magazine, the student-run literary magazine of IIT,[136] and IIT's on-campus radio station, where they can host their own shows.[137] Shimer students are represented on, and free to participate in, the IIT Student Government Association (SGA),[138] which acts "as a liaison between the university administration and the student body and ... a forum to express student opinion."[139]
"Students do not necessarily graduate with the skills for specific career."[89] Most students go on to graduate studies: fifty percent of Shimer graduates earn master's degrees[90] and twenty one percent go on to earn doctorates.[140] Another ten percent attend law school and five percent go to business school.[85]
Alumni
As of 2008, Shimer claimed 5615 living alumni.[141] Nearly twenty five percent of graduates are employed in education (from elementary schools through college), seven percent are lawyers, and seven percent work in computer software. The remainder occupy all walks of life, from "consulting to philanthropy."[85]
Samuel Walker McCall, a US Congressman and later Governor of Massachusetts, attended Mt. Carrol Seminary in the 1860s.[142] Shimer graduates include poets and authors such as Peter Cooley, who has sponsored a Shimer College poetry contest for many years, as part of the University and College Poetry Prize Program of the Academy of American Poets; poet Stephen Dobyns; Pulitzer Prize nominated writer John Norman Maclean, author of the bestselling Fire on the Mountain; and award-winning comic book writer and editor Catherine "Cat" Yronwode.[143] Alumni also include notable political theorists such as Arab-Israeli conflict scholar Alan Dowty and Robert Keohane, author of the seminal work After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy, and political activists such as C. Clark Kissinger, former National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and situationist Ken Knabb.[144] Computer pioneers Nick Pippenger and Daniel J. Sandin went to Shimer, as did experimental artists Laurie Spiegel and Ken Friedman.[145]
Other notable alumni include medical inventor, Slate columnist, and Yale University School of Medicine professor Sydney Spiesel; Whitman College Classics professor Elizabeth Vandiver; author, activist, and internet publisher Heather Corinna; computer software author Steve Heller; philosopher and chess Grandmaster Jesse Kraai; and Florida State Representative Ron Schultz.[146] Chicago businessman and Shimer graduate Peter Hanig co-organized the international public art exhibit CowParade in 1999.[147]
Notes
^ a: The school was called a seminary but did not engage in religious instruction. It was part finishing school and part preparatory school. The four-year program (which the Junior College later extended to six) covered what was essentially a good quality high school program, such that "students [were] prepared for the very best institutions east and west."[148]
^ b: The others are St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California and Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in Merrimack, New Hampshire.[126]
^ c: Adler and Hutchins collaborated on The Great Books of the Western World, published in 1952, which was intended to present the entire Western canon in one 54 volume set.[149] The selection of works it contained defined the reading list on which Great Books curricula were based, and which Shimer has largely kept, with minor changes, ever since.
^ d: The Hutchins plan also instituted placement exams, which students would take before enrollment "to determine how much or how little of the program they need."[150] This practice lives on at Shimer, where students are able to place out of several of the basic core courses by examination.[151]
^ e: This aspirational goal is very rarely achieved. Professor David Shiner, who joined the faculty in 1977, received special recognition from the college in 1998 for the "unique distinction of having taught the entire core curriculum".[152]
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(help) - Bonham, Jeriah (1883). Fifty Years' Recollections: With Observations and Reflections on Historical Events, Giving Sketches of Eminent Citizens Their Lives and Public Services. Peoria, Ill.: J.W. Franks & Sons. OCLC 3262599.
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(help) - Casement, William (1996). The Great Canon Controversy: The Battle of the Books in Higher Education. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. ISBN 1557787425.
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(help) - H.F. Kett & Co, ed. (1878). The History Of Carroll County, Illinois, Containing a History of the County — Its Cities, Towns, Etc. Chicago: H.F. Kett & Co. OCLC 3368934.
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(help) - "Shimer College Catalog 2009-2011" (pdf). Shimer College. 2009. Retrieved 2010–04–23.
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(help) - "Constitution of the Assembly of Shimer College" (pdf). Shimer College. 2008. Retrieved 2010–04–23.
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