Wikipedia:WikiProject Shimer College

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WikiProject Shimer College is a WikiProject which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Shimer College and related topics, and also to facilitate participation on Wikipedia by members of the Shimer community.

Please ensure that articles relating to Shimer and Shimerians are written from a neutral point of view, and are free of both academic boosterism and its opposite.

Please help this project evolve by providing your own modifications, comments and suggestions. (Leave a message).

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1. Create articles about appropriate (and notable) subjects relating to Shimer College, such as notable Shimer alumni, if they don't already exist.
2. Improve articles by adding appropriate content and references.
3. Add related articles to your watchlist and keep an eye out for any vandalism.

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• Wikipedia:WikiProject Illinois
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities

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• Visviva (talk)
• Saradevil (talk)
• User:PeteBobb (talk)
• Nasty Housecat (talk)

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• Create and expand articles on notable Shimer alumni and faculty
  • Howard L. Fields, pain expert & IOM member
  • Sherna Berger Gluck, key feminist oral historian
  • James A. Kelly, founder of National Board Certification
  • Mark Benney, noted sociologist
  • Frances Shimer
• Improve articles related to the communities of which Shimer has been a part
  • Mount Carroll, Illinois - [[../Mount Carroll articles|Local articles]]
  • Waukegan, Illinois - [[../Waukegan articles|Local articles]]
  • Douglas, Chicago - [[../Chicago articles|Local articles]]
• Improve articles related to the educational movements of which Shimer is or has been a part
  • Great Books
  • Early entrance to college
  • Feminist pedagogy
  • Female seminary
  • History of women's education in the United States
  • Junior college
  • Four-year junior college

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shimer College.

• Shimer Alumni (Unauthorised) Historical Society
• Shimer Alumni Unauthorized Archive
• Shimer College Wiki