Swarthmore College must extend the period of modified operations and remote learning through the end of the spring semester. The Lang Center will continue to meet our mission, acknowledging that the health and well-being of the global community are paramount. Email us if you have questions regarding how the virus could affect your current and future community engagements.
The Lang Center and Saint Joseph’s University to hosted “Engaging Philadelphia through Scholarship and Teaching” at City Hall for faculty and community partners from Greater Philadelphia. The event enabled attendees to build knowledge, explore current community assets, and make plans for collaboration on co-creation of knowledge and mutually desired outcomes. Click here to read more.
Congratulations to the Class of 2022 Lang Opportunity Scholars! The Lang Opportunity Scholarship supports Scholars in the development of a project that creates a needed social resource in the U.S. or abroad. The program was conceived and endowed by Eugene M. Lang ’38. Click here to learn more about the Class of 2022 LOS cohort!
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.
"These grants allow us to raise the profile of the arts and humanities on campus by fostering nuanced reflection on the importance of these disciplines,” says President Valerie Smith. More
Kumashiro outlines five considerations for engaged scholarship and social justice education: the problems of common sense, the purposes of education, the paradoxes of teaching, the practices of solidarity, and the promises of movement building. More
Ewing, whose collection of poems focuses on intersectionality and social justice, asked: "How are the options we are given prescribed by the assumptions we are making?” More