College Language Association
The College Language Association (CLA) is an organization of college educators and scholars of languages and literatures, serving the academic, scholarly, and professional interests of its members. The College Language Association's mission is to advance and promote the scholarship and teaching of its members through awards, workshops, conventions, and publishing.[1] The College Language Association holds an annual convention in the spring and publishes an online, multilingual biannual journal, the CLA Journal.
About
The College Language Association was founded as The Association of Teachers of English in Negro Colleges (ATENC) on April 23, 1937 at LeMoyne College in Memphis, Tennessee by Hugh M. Gloster, Stella B. Brooks, J. L. Cary, Gladstone L. Chandler, V. C. Clinch, Lydia Edgerly, J. Randolph Fisher, Valorie O. Justis, Carrie Pembroke, and Elizabeth Pinkey.[2] This group of ten professors founded The Association of Teachers of English in Negro Colleges to promote the teaching, academic, and professional interests of its members and black scholarship.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ "College Language Association Webstite". www.clascholars.org. Retrieved March 27, 2019.
- ↑ Mjagkij, Nina (2013). Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations. New York: Routledge. pp. 138–139. ISBN 0-8153-2309-3. Search this book on
- ↑ Fowler, Carolyn (1988). The College Association: A Social History. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. p. 7. Search this book on
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