I've spent a little time with this report. Here are my observations. Feel free to forward and cite this posting, I’ll appreciate comments on whether I got this right.
At a meeting of its Board of Trustees yesterday, Shimer College took a step back from the edge of an abyss on which it has stood since April 19. How it got to that edge and what steps might lie ahead offer some insight into what’s happening in higher education today.
Saving Shimer
Shimer College is “the Great Books school of Chicago.” It is tiny – only around 100 students – and it barely avoided closing for financial reasons on at least two occasions.… Continue
Added by Joseph Bast on May 28, 2010 at 3:00pm —
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