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Ann Arbor-based consortium of liberal arts colleges from Ohio, Indiana and Michigan formed to share resources, develop collaborative educational programs, and address common issues. Collection includes administrative records, correspondence, program proposals and reports, grant information, and content related to lobbying.

The Great Lakes Colleges Association records detail the organization and administration of a progressive and innovative university consortium. The materials document the development of a range of educational programs as well as instructional initiatives. The collection will be of particular interest to those studying the opportunities posed by university consortia and the evolution of higher education in the 1960s and 70s. The GLCA records are divided into five series: Organization and Administration, Academic Programs, Other Organizations, Foundations, and Legislation and Lobbying.

Joint program between the University of Michigan, Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Great Lakes Colleges Association to support student and faculty study and research in non-western area studies through grants, fellowships, conferences and programs. Records consist of grant proposals, minutes of the steering committee, correspondence, evaluations, and applications for research grants and summer language fellowships.

This record group is divided into four major series: Administrative, Applications, Correspondence and Grants.

Administrative contains material concerning the running of the program. It contains the minutes of the steering committee as well as some smaller committees. Reports on PICAS activities, most written by the executive director, and evaluations of PICAS written by grant and fellowship recipients are included. The steering committee minutes in particular offer significant detail on PICAS activities and programs.

Applications include mostly the proposals for conferences to be sponsored by PICAS and for faculty long term research grants. Some proposals and applications for other research grants and the summer language fellowship are also included. These files also have summary information on the number of fellowships awarded and evaluation of the fellowships and summer language programs.

Correspondence contains material chiefly written and received by William Kincaid, executive director of PICAS. It contains incoming and outgoing correspondence from the faculty, students and administrators of the participating colleges. The bulk of the material concerns the summer language fellowships and the long-term faculty research grants.

Grants is organized by the dates of the grants awarded to PICAS. It contains the grant applications and correspondence with the donors. It also contains information on possible sources to renew the grant beyond 1995.