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The College Language Association (CLA) is an organization of college teachers of English and foreign languages which serves the academic, scholarly, and professional interests of its members and the collegiate communities they represent. The College Language Association's mission aims to foster high professional standards for teachers of language and literature and promote productive scholarship among its members.

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The College Language Association was initially established as The Association of Teachers of English in Negro Colleges (ATENC) on April 23, 1937 at LeMoyne College in Memphis, Tennessee by Hugh Morris Gloster, Stella B Brooks, J. L. Cary, Gladstone, Lewis Chandler, V. C. Clinch, Lydia Edgerly, J. Randolph Fisher, Valorie O. Justis, Carrie Pembroke, and Elizabeth Pinkey. The group of ten college professors founded The Association of Teachers of English in Negro Colleges to promote the teaching, academic and professional interests of its members and to promote black scholarship at a time when black people were excluded from being members of the Modern Language Association.