To our students, faculty, and staff:
Welcome back to campus! We hope you had a restful break and are looking forward to another wonderful semester at Swarthmore College. Interested in how you can integrate Engaged Scholarship into your plans for the semester? Stop by the Lang Center to learn more, and for tips and resources!
In October, the Chester Community Fellowship was recognized as a model of excellence in Student Community Engagement at the Engagement Scholarship Consortium's national conference. Ashley Henry, CCF program manager, accepted the award. Ulysses Slaughterof the Chester Housing Authority represented was also in attendance at the ceremony to share in the program's national recognition as a valued CCF community partner.
Organize your energies! If you’re passionate about an issue, we can help you find relevant courses, research, internships, and volunteer opportunities, whatever your academic major.
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.
The Lang Center provides a variety of resources to students, faculty, and community members, including funding, advising, transportation, and space.
Christopher Gaeta ’22, Emma Parker Miller ’22, Ray Sidener ’21, and Nancy Yuan ’20 learned tools to socially engage with the Swarthmore community. They will also undertake online and on-campus training sessions to identify and address potential problem areas of campus life, based on interviews with students and faculty members and in collaboration with fellowship advisers. More
As the newest recipients of the Eugene M. Lang Opportunity Scholarship (LOS), six Swarthmore sophomores will be tackling social action projects here and around the globe. More
Rose Ridder ’20 is now a laureate of the country’s oldest engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi, in recognition of excellence beyond her chosen field. Ridder, a Lang Scholar who taught English at a school in Thailand, supplemented the school’s science program for a beyond-the-classroom, hands-on science experiment with a nearby water supply. More