Great Lakes Colleges Association

The Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) is a consortium of 13 liberal arts colleges located in the states around the Great Lakes. The 13 schools are located in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana. It was chartered in the state of Michigan and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in 1962, the consortium extended its first offer of membership in 46 years to Allegheny College in 2008.

The GLCA offices are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Member institutions are:

  • Albion College
  • Antioch College
  • Allegheny College
  • Denison University
  • DePauw University
  • Earlham College
  • Hope College
  • Kalamazoo College
  • Kenyon College
  • Oberlin College
  • Ohio Wesleyan University
  • Wabash College
  • College of Wooster

Famous quotes containing the words lakes, colleges and/or association:

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    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means—from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.
    Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)

    In this great association we know no North, no South, no East, no West. This has been our pride for all these years. We have no political party. We never have inquired what anybody’s religion is. All we ever have asked is simply, “Do you believe in perfect equality for women?” This is the one article in our creed.
    Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)