Academic Leadership Institute
The Academic Leadership Institute is a professional development workshop offering insights and strategies for decision making to rising faculty leaders of GLCA colleges. Faculty teams from each college examine the relationship between mission, programs, and budget/finance to create a sustainable “imagined” college. There are sessions on stakeholder analysis, negotiation, and strategies to address real challenges of participants’ home institutions.
Global Course Connections
The Global Course Connections program has offered 95 internationally connected courses since 2015. Also known as Virtual Exchange / Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), these kinds of courses are being developed at colleges and universities around the globe as a high impact, low-cost approach to bring global perspectives into a course to give students exposure to other parts of the world and other ways of thinking by exploring the course’s topics through different content and perspectives.
Global Liberal Arts Alliance
The Global Liberal Arts Alliance is an international partnership of 30 liberal arts institutions in 18 countries (including the thirteen members of the GLCA). The Alliance’s goal is to support excellence in liberal arts education in their historical, cultural, religious, environmental, and economic contexts through collaboration.
Japan Study Grants
The GLCA NEH Endowment is a proposal-based program that provides funding for travel to Japan and other East Asian countries in support of projects that enhance and extend the study of Japan. Prior experience in Japanese Studies is not necessary.Disciplinary Convenings
On a proposal basis, the GLCA may provide modest levels of funding ranging from $500 to $1,500 to faculty groups that share a common disciplinary or interdisciplinary interest and seek to build communities of interest/practice across GLCA’s member colleges.Consortium for Teaching and Learning
The GLCA/GLAA Consortium for Teaching and Learning (CTL) is a virtual community that shares a commitment to strengthening the quality of education and of student learning at liberal arts colleges. Its mission is to leverage the collective knowledge and practices of the 13 GLCA liberal arts colleges and 17 international liberal arts institutions of the GLAA to advance teaching and learning on individual campuses. Through a weekly newsletter, information on its website, and virtual programming, the CTL provides resources and services in support of effective pedagogy across the colleges of the GLCA and the GLAA.
Alliance Institutes
Institutes bring together faculty, staff, and students from across the Global Liberal Arts Alliance to share their work (research, curricular and co-curricular programming) on globally relevant topics such as water, global health, civic engagement, leadership, and transnational feminisms. These explorations encompass aspects of liberal education that Alliance schools have in common and the unique institutional contexts that shape each institution’s approach to the topic. Students participate in joint presentations with faculty and staff, and in student-only panels.
Tuition Remission Exchange
The Great Lakes Colleges Association operates the GLCA-TRE (Tuition Remission Exchange) program. The thirteen colleges of the GLCA, along with a number of other colleges across the country participate in the program for a total of 19 institutions. Students eligible for tuition remission because of parental employment at one of the participating colleges may receive tuition remission at one of the other colleges in the Exchange.
New Writers Award
This national literary award confers recognition each year to a writer who has published a first volume of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction. Judges are faculty members of creative writing and literature at GLCA member colleges. Winning writers receive invitations to visit several GLCA colleges to give readings, meet with students and faculty, and enrich the environment of creativity in a college community.