Great Lakes Colleges Association
American academic consortium
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The Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) is a consortium of liberal arts colleges located in the states around the Great Lakes. The GLCA's offices are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and its schools are located in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. It was chartered in the state of Michigan and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in 1962.[1] 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.[1]
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| Abbreviation | GLCA |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1962 |
| Type | Higher education consortium |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization |
| Purpose | Strengthening member colleges and liberal arts & sciences education |
| Headquarters | Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
Region served | Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania |
| Website | www |
The organization is the founder and administrator of the Global Liberal Arts Alliance.[2]
Operations
GLCA operates the GLCA-TRE (Tuition Remission Exchange) program. Its member colleges, along with other participating colleges, take part in the program, for a total of 21 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.[3]
New Writers Award
The GLCA administers the New Writers Award, founded in 1970, which recognizes authors for their first books in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.[4] Judges are faculty members at GLCA member colleges, and winners are invited to visit GLCA campuses for readings and discussions.[4] According to Poets & Writers, three prizes are awarded annually, and winners receive campus-visit travel support and an honorarium of at least $500.[5] Notable recipients include Alice Munro (1974), who later won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013,[6][7] and Louise Erdrich (1985), who later won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Night Watchman.[6][8]
| Year | Poetry | Fiction | Creative nonfiction |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Tarik Dobbs — Nazar Boy: Poems | Alisa Alering — Smothermoss | Hala Alyan — I'll Tell You When I'm Home |
| 2025 | Sarah Ghazal Ali — Theophanies | Jessica Elisheva Emerson — Olive Days | KB Brookins — Pretty |
| 2024 | Jesse Nathan — Eggtooth | D.K. Nnuro — What Napoleon Could Not Do | Roger Reeves — Dark Days |
| 2023 | James Fujinami Moore — indecent hours | Tsering Yangzom Lama — We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies | Lars Horn — Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay |
| 2022 | Sumita Chakraborty — Arrow | Michael X. Wang — Further News of Defeat | Melissa Valentine — The Names of All the Flowers |
| 2021 | Marianne Chan — All Heathens | Gabriel Bump — Everywhere You Don’t Belong | Nina Boutsikaris — I’m Trying to Tell You I’m Sorry |
| 2020 | Aaron Coleman — Threat Come Close | Eric Schlich — Quantum Convention | Sarah Viren — Mine: Essays |
| 2019 | Marcelo Hernandez Castillo — Cenzontle | Dawn Davies — Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces | Lesley Nneka Arimah — What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky |
| 2018 | Chen Chen — When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities | Emily Fridlund — History of Wolves | Hilary Plum — Watchfires |
| 2017 | Nate Marshall — Wild Hundreds | Charles Boyer — History’s Child | Randall Horton — Hook |
| 2016 | Natalie Scenters-Zapico — The Verging Cities | Lauren Acampora — The Wonder Garden | Shulem Deen — All Who Go Do Not Return |
| 2015 | Tarfia Faizullah — Seam | David James Poissant — The Heaven of Animals | Angela Pelster — Limber |
| 2014 | Natalie Shapero — No Object | E.J. Levy — Love, in Theory | Joe Wilkins — The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry |
| 2013 | Rowan Ricardo Phillips — The Ground | Ismet Prcic — Shards | Benjamin Busch — Dust to Dust |
| 2012 | Shane Book — Ceiling of Sticks | Alan Heathcock — Volt | Danielle Cadena Deulen — The Riots |
| 2011 | Nick Lantz — We Don’t Know We Don’t Know | Goldie Goldbloom — Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders | Randi Davenport — The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes |
| 2010 | Kevin McFadden — Hardscrabble | Josh Weil — The New Valley | Diana Joseph — I’m Sorry You Feel That Way |
| 2009 | Aracelis Girmay — Teeth | Don Waters — Desert Gothic | Melissa J. Delbridge — Family Bible |
| 2008 | Lynne Thompson — Beg No Pardon | Andy Mozina — The Women Were Leaving the Men | Ander Monson — Neck Deep and Other Predicaments |
| 2007 | Jay Hopler — Green Squall | Tony D’Souza — Whiteman | — |
| 2006 | Anele Rubin — Trying to Speak | David Harris Ebenbach — Between Camelots | — |
| 2005 | Dana Roeser — Beautiful Motion | Scott Nadelson — Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories | — |
| 2004 | Mary Szybist — Granted | Patricia Sarrifian Ward — The Bullet Collection | — |
| 2003 | Beth Ann Fennelly — Open House | Kellie Wells — Compression Scars | — |
| 2002 | Mong-Lan — Song of the Cicadas | Elizabeth Rosner — The Speed of Light | — |
| 2001 | Tenaya Darlington — Madame Deluxe | Michael Zadoorian — Secondhand | — |
| 2000 | Dana Levin — In the Surgical Theatre | William Oren — Zombi, You My Love | — |
| 1999 | Craig Arnold — Shells | Becky Hagenston — A Gram of Mars | — |
| 1998 | Mary Jo Bang — Apology for Want | Alison McGhee — Rainlight | — |
| 1997 | Juanita Brunk — Brief Landing on the Earth’s Surface | Brad Watson — Last Days of the Dog-Men | — |
| 1996 | Lynn Powell — Old & New Testaments | Geoffrey Becker — Dangerous Men | — |
| 1995 | Alice Anderson — Human Nature | Terese Svoboda — Cannibal | — |
| 1994 | Kim Addonizio — The Philosopher’s Club | — | — |
| 1993 | Julia Kasdorf — Sleeping Preacher | Jane McCafferty — Director of the World and Other Stories | — |
| 1992 | Mary Stewart Hammond — Out of Canaan | Charlotte Watson Sherman — Killing Color | — |
| 1991 | Daniel Hall — Hermit With Landscape | Susan Straight — Aquaboogie | — |
| 1990 | Stefanie Marlis — Slow Joy | William Patrick — Roxa | — |
| 1989 | Fleda Brown Jackson — Fishing With Blood | Jane Hamilton — The Book of Ruth | — |
| 1988 | Charlie Smith — Red Roads | Brett Laidlaw — Three Nights in the Heart of the Earth | — |
| 1987 | James McKean — Headlong | Gabrielle Burton — Heartbreak Hotel | — |
| 1986 | Andrew Hudgins — Saints and Sinners | Pamela Painter — Getting to Know the Weather | — |
| 1985 | Lynn Emanuel — Hotel Fiesta | Louise Erdrich — Love Medicine | — |
| 1984 | Ralph Burns — Us | Charles Dickinson — Waltz in Marathon | — |
| 1983 | Maria Flook — Reckless Wedding | Michael Joyce — The War Outside Ireland | — |
| 1982 | Jared Carter — Work, for the Night is Coming | Annabel Thomas — The Phototropic Woman | — |
| 1981 | Jorie Graham — Hybrids of Plants and Ghosts | Mary Hedin — Fly Away Home | — |
| 1980 | Robert Bohm — In the Americas | Eve Shelnutt — The Love Child | — |
| 1979 | Leslie Ullman — Natural Histories | Caroline Richards — Sweet Country | — |
| 1978 | Eugene Ruggles — The Lifeguard in the Snow | Jonathan Penner — Going Blind | — |
| 1977 | David St. John — Hush | Richard Ford — A Piece of My Heart | — |
| 1976 | Betty Adcock — Walking Out | Rosellen Brown — The Autobiography of My Mother | — |
| 1975 | Elisauitta Ritchie — Tightening the Circle Over Eel Country | Hilma Wolitzer — Ending | — |
| 1974 | — | Margaret Craven — I Heard an Owl Call My Name Alice Munro — Dance of the Happy Shades | — |
| 1973 | Daniel Halpern — Traveling on Credit | Inge Trachtenberg — So Slow the Dawning Clark Blaise — A North American Education | — |
| 1972 | Colette Inez — The Woman Who Loved Worms | Theodore Weesner — The Car Thief | — |
| 1971 | David Henderson — De Mayor of Harlem | James Park Sloan — War Games | — |
| 1970 | — | Elizabeth Cullinan — House of Gold | — |
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.[9]
In 2008, the consortium extended membership to Allegheny College[10] and, later, Washington & Jefferson College[11].