The Global Liberal Arts Alliance is an organization of 29 liberal arts colleges and universities, located in 17 nations, whose purpose is to strengthen education in the tradition of the liberal arts through the exchange of experience and the development of mutually beneficial programs.

The Alliance is managed by the Great Lakes Colleges Association.

Through generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Great Lakes Colleges Association has launched Global Crossroads, a four-year initiative to advance internationalization of the programs of learning that define our undergraduates’ experience of the liberal arts. Collaboration leading to durable partnerships is the essential building block on which Crossroads-supported efforts will be built. These efforts will involve members of the Global Liberal Arts Alliance. Global Crossroads includes eight independent programs.

The Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) Expanding Collaboration Initiative supports collaborative curricular initiatives involving faculty and key professional staff who share common academic interests. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the program seeks to foster multi-campus communities of practice, allowing them to share expertise, develop joint programs, bring new perspectives to current courses, and engage in new realms of thinking and creativity involving one or more academic disciplines.