The Michigan College English Association offers an annual opportunity for members and guests to share scholarship, discuss issues of concern to the professoriate, and renew our pleasure in our chosen discipline. MCEA is a state affiliate of the College English Association and is dedicated to the following purposes:

• Providing opportunities for the discussion of the preparation and professional improvement of college teachers of English through annual meetings, publications, and conferences with representatives of other professional organizations;
• Encouraging the humane as well as the immediate practical study of language and literature;
• Maintaining and developing the functions of English studies as a major element in American higher education;
• Promoting fruitful interrelationships among English and other disciplines; and
• Interpreting the relationships of the study and teaching of English to society at large