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Power struggle between students and trustees at tiny Chicago college
Jan. 27, 2010
Students at Shimer College object to trustees' attempts to assert more authority
From
The Chicago Tribune
:
Shimer College
in
Chicago
has just 102 students and 11 full-time professors. A liberal arts school, it resides entirely within the campus of the
Illinois Institute of Technology
in four rented classrooms. Its latest crisis is an unusual power struggle over how the school is governed, stemming from
an attempt to alter an unorthodox, egalitarian system in which the vote of a lowly freshman weighs the same as that of a well-heeled trustee
.
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