Aaron John Brumbaugh (February 14, 1890 – February 25, 1983) was a higher education administrator and professor of education, and the sixth president of

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. Brumbaugh was born in

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in early 1893. He subsequently became a teacher and superintendent in local schools, before traveling to

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, where he received his BA in 1914. He served as the superintendent of the Mount Morris schools from 1914 to 1915, and as professor of English at Mount Morris College from 1915 to 1918. In 1918 he received his MA from the

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, and was named Dean at Mount Morris College. In 1921 he became president of Mount Morris College, a position which he held until resigning in 1925. Brumbaugh taught at the University of Chicago beginning in 1926, and completed his Ph.D. there in 1929 with a dissertation on the authority of school boards as defined by the courts. He became an associate professor in 1935 and rose to full professor the following year, holding that rank until his retirement in 1944. In 1937, he became president of the

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. In 1941,

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appointed Brumbaugh Dean of Students at the

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. He had previously held the position of acting dean. Brumbaugh retired from the university in 1944 but remained active in professional associations. Brumbaugh mr mrs

As president of Shimer College in

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from 1950 to 1954, Brumbaugh presided over the transition of the Shimer curriculum from a women's

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to a four-year coeducational

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college. He was the first president to preside over the school under its current name, as the name was changed from "Frances Shimer College" to "Shimer College" at the time that the school became coeducational. In 1955, Brumbaugh left Shimer to take a staff position with the

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in Atlanta, Georgia. He held this position until retiring for the second time in 1970. He and his wife then moved to Florida.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brumbaugh, Aaron 1890 births 1983 deaths Presidents of Shimer College People from Hartville, Ohio Mount Morris College alumni University of Chicago alumni 20th-century American academics

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