CoLab
The CoLab offers a range of education and skills building opportunities, including workshops on impact gaps analysis, design thinking for social change, and social business model canvas. The Fall 2021 workshops are open to students.
Check out how you can get involved on the CoLab page.
Chester Justice Celebration
This summer, the 2022 cohort of Chester Community Fellows in collaboration with Chester partners hosted the "Chester Justice Celebration", an event designed to foster a deeper understanding of and connection to cultural identity, environmental justice and civic engagement among Chester youth. A series of interactive workshops were led by community activists.
"Connecting curriculum, campus, and community through engaged scholarship and collaborative action."
Issue Areas
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.
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.
Resources
The Lang Center provides a variety of resources to students, faculty, and community members, including funding, advising, transportation, and space.
The Lang Center in the News
Faculty, Students, and Community Partners to Collaborate on Engaged Humanities Studio Projects
Three faculty members and two students have been announced as 2022-2023 Engaged Humanities Studio Fellows. More
Quartet of Lang Opportunity Scholars Named for Class of 2024
Connor Barrett ’24, Khaliun Enkhbayar ’24, Jean Luc Ishimwe ’24, and Ariza Nanji ’24 will strive with partners toward systems change with an array of projects. More
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