"...the transition [caused by the pandemic has been] particularly difficult for professors running Engaged Scholarship (ESCH) courses, programs that are based on in-person experiences in local communities in Chester and Philadelphia. How would professors emulate in-person experiences when everything was online?" Read this article on The Phoenix about how the Lang Center has adapted to continue to meet its mission of connecting the 3Cs - campus, curriculum, community - during these uncertain times.
Lang Center to Partner with Campus Compact on National Engaged Scholars Initiative
The Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility and Swarthmore College are partnering with Campus Compact to support a national cohort of early career faculty and staff members focused on strengthening their own critical community-engaged scholarship and equity-focused change at their institution and in communities.
https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/lang-center-to-partner-campus-compact-nat...
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CoLab
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Faculty-Led Initiatives
We house faculty-led programs that encourage interdisciplinary learning and Engaged Scholarship. Current programs: Urban Inequality & Incarceration, Global Studies Initiative, Health & Societies, Arts in Action.
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The Lang Center in the News
Four Students Named Stanford University Innovation Fellows
Four Swarthmore students have been named Stanford University Innovation Fellows (UIF), an honor earned through six weeks of intensive training More
Rebecca Castillo ’20 Named Lang Social Impact Fellow
Rebecca Castillo ’20 was recently named a Lang Social Impact Fellow, a position designed to “empower scholars with their partners to engage in systems-change activities designed to close the gap between social challenges and solutions.” More
Advancing the Dialogue on Native Nations: Q&A with James Fenelon
James Fenelon, who identifies as Lakota/Dakota, Gaelic Irish, and Norsk, researches urban inequality, Native Nations, and international/intercultural environmental issues, and now turns his attention to Swarthmore as Lang Visiting Professor for Issues of Social Change and professor of sociology. More