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Shimer is an American surname of German origin. Shimer may refer to: *Shimer College, a liberal arts college in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States * Shimer, Pennsylvania, a populated place in Northampton County, Pennsylvania People with the surname Shimer *Brian Shimer, bobsledder *Frances Shimer, founder of the Mount Carroll Seminary *Henry Shimer Henry Shimer (September 21, 1828 – July 28, 1895) was a naturalist and physician in Mount Carroll, Illinois. He was also a teacher at the Mount Carroll Seminary, which later became Shimer College; he was the husband of the seminary's found ..., entomologist and faculty at Mount Carroll Seminary * Robert Shimer, macroeconomist {{disambig ...
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Shimer College
Shimer Great Books School (pronounced ) is a Classic_book#University_programs, 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, with a history of being in different cities in Illinois prior to that. Founded in 1853 as the Mount Carroll Seminary in Mount Carroll, Illinois, the school became affiliated with the University of Chicago in 1896 and was renamed the Frances Shimer Academy after founder Frances Wood Shimer. It was renamed Shimer College in 1950, when it began offering a four-year curriculum based on the Robert Maynard Hutchins, Hutchins Plan of the University of Chicago. After the University of Chicago parted with both the college and the Hutchins Plan in 1958, Shimer continued to use a version of that curriculum. The college relocated to Waukegan, Illinois, Waukegan in 1978 and to Chicago in 2006. In 2017, it was acquired by North Central Colle ...
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