Mission
The Global Liberal Arts Alliance is an international partnership of colleges and universities advancing liberal arts education within the contexts of its member institutions. The Alliance fosters a community of institutional leaders, faculty, staff, and students to address the pressing intellectual, social, political, educational and cultural issues of the highly globalized twenty-first century.
The Alliance fulfills its mission by:
- Strengthening the ability of our liberal arts institutions to operate effectively and globally; and,
- Facilitating global course, curricular, co-curricular connections and scholarly activities among our institutions, and the mobility of students, faculty, staff, and leadership within the Alliance network.
GLCA Management
The Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) is the founder and administrator of the Global Alliance. Chartered in the state of Michigan (USA) and incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit in 1962, it has been governed since its founding by a Board of Directors and charged with working on behalf of its member institutions, a consortium of thirteen private liberal arts colleges located in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Advisory Group
The advisory group of presidents and chief academic officers provides feedback and advice to the GLCA president and staff in between GLAA leadership meetings.
Member | Title | Institution |
Celeste Schenck | President | The American University of Paris |
Rock Jones | President | Ohio Wesleyan University |
Leonard Cheng | President | Lingnan University |
Haifa Jamal Al-Lail | President | Effat University |
Ahmed Legrouri | Provost and Vice-President of Academic Affairs | International University of Grand-Bassam |
Alliance Liaisons
Each Alliance campus has an Alliance Liaison. The Liaison’s primary role is communication between the GLCA office and the campus. This includes being a strong and visible advocate for the Alliance and a source of timely information to faculty, staff, and students of the Liaison’s home institution. The Liaison also has responsibility for sharing Alliance news with the campus’ president and chief academic officer.
Institution | Liaison | Title | |
Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane | Violetta Cavalli-Sforza | Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs | [email protected] |
Albion College | Midori Yoshi | International Studies Program | [email protected] |
Allegheny College | Terry Bensel | Associate Provost, Director of The Allegheny Gateway, Professor of Environmental Science | [email protected] |
Antioch College | Luisa Bieri | Assistant Profess or Cooperative Education | [email protected] |
Ashesi University | Stephen Armah | Department Head, Business Administration | [email protected] |
Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts | Dagmar Kusa | Professor of Political Science | [email protected] |
Denison University | Taku Suzuki | Associate Professor of East Asian Studies; Director of International Studies | [email protected] |
DePauw University | David Alvarez | Associate Professor of English | [email protected] |
Earlham College | Kari Kalve | Professor of English | [email protected] |
Effat University | Haifa Jamal Al-Lail | President | [email protected] |
Flame University | Renu Dhadwal | Associate Professor of Mathematics | [email protected] |
Forman Christian College | Gloria Calib | Associate Vice Rector for Academic Affairs | [email protected] |
Franklin University Switzerland | Kate Roy | Modern Languages and Literatures (German) | [email protected] |
Hope College | Deirdre Johnston | Associate Dean of Global Education; Professor of Communication | [email protected] |
International Christian University | Christopher Bondy | Senior Associate Professor of Sociology; Coordinator for Japan Studies | [email protected] |
International University of Grand-Bassam | Ahmed Legrouri | Vice President for Academic Affairs | [email protected] |
John Cabot University | Mary Merva | Vice President and Dean of Academics | [email protected] |
Kalamazoo College | Christine Hahn | Associate Provost and Associate Professor of Art and Art History | [email protected] |
Kenyon College | Irene Lopez | Associate Professor of Psychology and Women and Gender Studies | [email protected] |
Lingnan University | Shalendra Sharma | Associate Vice President | [email protected] |
Oberlin College | Tania Boster | Director, Bonner Center Curricular Initiatives; Director Bonner Center and Gertrude B. Lemle Teaching Center; Assistant Professor of History | [email protected] |
Ohio Wesleyan University | Nancy Comorau | Associate Professor of English | [email protected] |
The American College of Greece | Georgia Giannakopoulou | Department of Sociology | [email protected] |
The American University in Bulgaria | Robert White | Dean of the Faculty | [email protected] |
The American University in Cairo | Dahlia El Tayeb | Dean of Cooperative, Experiential, and International Education | [email protected] |
The American University of Nigeria | TBD | ||
The American University of Paris | Russell Williams | Director of Faculty Development | [email protected] |
Universidad San Francisco de Quito | Alexandra Velasco | International Programs Office Director | [email protected] |
The College of Wooster | Sarah Sobeck | Associate Professor of Chemistry | [email protected] |
Wabash College | Agata Szczeszak-Brewer | Associate Professor of English | [email protected] |