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Netiya Shiner and Maria Gomez are Shimer students participating in the Shimer Internship/Mentorship (SIM) Program. They regularly post updates about their internship experiences. This post is from Maria, who is interning with Haymarket Books.
Shimer College Director of Admissions Elaine Vincent talks about the Great Books college of Chicago, and offers advice for how to write about books in a coll...
Saturday was a banner day for Shimer, Chicago's tiny Great Books college. The school graduated a whopping total of 26 graduates, nearly doubling the previous y
I got to see Marge Piercy last night at the toney, old money Standard Club in Chicago in a setting replete with dark wood paneling, plush furniture, and hushed club attendants at an event for alumni and the community of one of my alma maters—tiny Shimer College. It was a wonderful evening in a slightly incongruous setting.
Dear Shimerians: Recently a student asked me “why are you writing to presidents of colleges that have experienced violence?
When I arrived at Shimer, a group of students were doing a tutorial on the "political novel." Among their readings: the work of Marge Piercy.
In addition to having a presence on this blog and others, Shimer is now appearing on occassion in the Huffington Post. Any comments you can make there will help get us attention. Please spread the word about that, and about this blog.
How long have you been thinking, "I wish I could take Integrated Studies 6 again?"
Professor Stuart Patterson has intuited your craving. This summer, Stuart will be teaching a seminar at the Newberry Library that is inspired by the sequence of works often read in that course.
Greetings from Oxford! I'm taking the liberty (and have the privilege) this evening of posting below Katherine Williams' account of a tour that a few of us took the yesterday of the new organ at Keble College.
We're still a long way off from Star Trek's transporter technology, but the nice thing about being in the city of Chicago and partnered with IIT is that full-time students have access to the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA).
Among the topics that Rich addressed across her oeuvre (aka body of works) are motherhood, sexuality, feminism, and education. It is the latter that is relevant for us today. In 1973/74, for example, she wrote as essay entitled "The Woman Centered University", available here. In 1978, she wrote "Taking Women Students Seriously" parts of which are available
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Happy birthday to Shimer!
I have to admit that part of my sanguine attitude stems from the fact that Shimer’s pedagogy embodies what independent researchers have already demonstrated to be “best practices” in terms of discussion-centered, small classes — and so if we take the trouble to come up with a plausible way to measure what the program is doing for our students, I’m confident the results will be very strong. Despite that overall optimism, however, I’m also sure that there are some things that we’re doing that aren’t working as well as they could, but we have no way of really knowing that currently. We all have limited energy and time, and so anything that can help us make sure we’re devoting our energy to things that are actually beneficial seems all to the good.
The relationships depicted in the play are made stronger no doubt by the close community that the actors all belong to as Shimer students. .... With a spectacular cast, wonderful dialogue, and ingenious staging and lighting; Eurydice is not the play I expected to see, it was even better. I strongly recommend this tragic and sweet play for anyone who has an interest in mythology or romance with a slight tinge of horror. For those who are kicking themselves for not seeing the play when it initially ran this past weekend director Josh Sobel has decided to add two more dates to the run this coming weekend.
Basically, I got hired for my abilities to think and write analytically, cut through complex issues and communicate effectively — exactly the skills liberal arts education should teach,"says Timm, 24, of Oakland. ... [I]f he had to do it over again, Timm says, he would again go to Shimer College, a liberal arts school in Chicago whose coursework is based on the Great Books.
Higher Education in the Windy City
Professor Marty is Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He has served on two U. S. Presidential Commissions and was director of both the Fundamentalism Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Public Religion Project at the University of Chicago (sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts). Having written many, many books and articles, Professor Marty is a key figure in American religion and a long time supporter of liberal education.Moreover, he has been an important teacher of many who followed him in the study of religion across the United States and abroad, including many who teach undergraduates.
Shimer is pleased to announce the following 2013 Montaigne Scholarship Winners (photos of all winners and event to follow):
Tonight I am going to talk about multilateral institutions, such as the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization, the various institutions designed to cope with climate change, the European Union, or the United Nations. But I am not going to discuss specific institutions in detail. Like a good Shimerian, I’m going to start with the Great Books. They do not provide answers for the 21st century, but they ask some of the right questions, in very profound ways.
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