Editing Great Lakes Colleges Association

{{Short description|American academic consortium}}
The '''Great Lakes Colleges Association''' ('''GLCA''') is a [[consortium]] of 13 [[liberal arts college]]s located in the [[U.S. state|states]] around the [[Great Lakes]]. The GLCA's offices are located in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]] and its 13 schools are located in [[Michigan]], [[Ohio]], [[Pennsylvania]] and [[Indiana]]. It was chartered in the state of Michigan and incorporated as a [[501(c)|501(c)(3)]] [[non-profit organization]] in 1962.<ref name=About>{{cite web|url=  https://www.glca.org/about/ |title=About Us| publisher=Great Lakes Colleges Association|accessdate=April 30, 2021}}</ref>  Its stated mission is to take actions that will help strengthen and preserve its colleges, being a leading force on behalf of education in the tradition of the liberal arts and sciences.<ref name=About/>

The organization is the founder and administrator of the [[Global Liberal Arts Alliance]].<ref>{{cite web|url= https://liberalartsalliance.org/about-us/ |title=About Us| publisher=Global Liberal Arts Alliance|accessdate= April 30, 2021}}</ref>

==Operations==
GLCA operates a Tuition Remission Exchange involving its 13 colleges plus [[Beloit College]], [[Grinnell College]], [[Willamette University]], and [[Wittenberg University]], by which students eligible for tuition remission because of parental employment at one of the colleges will receive tuition remission at any one of the other colleges in the Exchange.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.wittenberg.edu/admission/exchange-programs |title=Tuition Exchange Programs|publisher= Office of Admissions, Wittenberg University|accessdate=April 30, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.glca.org/faculty/tuition-remission-exchange/  |title= Tuition Remission Exchange |publisher=Great Lakes Colleges Association|accessdate=April 30, 2021}}</ref>

GLCA awards three literary prizes annually to a poet, a fiction writer, and a creative nonfiction writer to honor their first books. Winning authors receive all-expense-paid trips to several of GLCA's member colleges, at which they will be paid an honorarium of at least $500 to meet with students, give readings, and lead discussions.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://contester.club/great-lakes/ |title= Great Lakes Colleges Association, New Writers Awards|publisher=Contester’s Club|accessdate=April 30, 2021}}</ref>

[[The Philadelphia Center]], which offers an off-campus study program with the opportunity to gain college credit while living and learning independently in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], is managed and operated by Albion College in partnership with the GLCA.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.tpc.edu |title=The Philly Off-Campus Experience|publisher=The Philadelphia Center|accessdate=April 30, 2021}}</ref>

The consortium extended its first offer of membership in 46 years to [[Allegheny College]] in 2008.

==Member institutions==
The GLCA's member institutions are:<ref>{{cite web|url=  https://www.glca.org/our-colleges/ |title=Our Colleges|publisher=Great Lakes Colleges Association|accessdate=April 30, 2021}}</ref>
*[[Albion College]]
*[[Allegheny College]]
*[[Antioch College]]
*[[Denison University]]
*[[DePauw University]]
*[[Earlham College]]
*[[Hope College]]
*[[Kalamazoo College]]
*[[Kenyon College]]
*[[Oberlin College]]
*[[Ohio Wesleyan University]]
*[[Wabash College]]
*[[College of Wooster]]

==External links==
*{{Official website|www.glca.org}}

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[[Category:College and university associations and consortia in the United States]]
[[Category:Liberal arts colleges in the United States|.]]
[[Category:Organizations based in Ann Arbor, Michigan]]