Lang Center

for Civic & Social Responsibility

7th Annual Engaged Scholarship Symposium

Over 200 people from across the nation registered for the Lang Center's 7th annual symposium this year, focusing on engaged scholarship across different types of higher education institutions. We partnered with three national and regional higher education networks and ten campuses.

View the recorded sessions.

Environmental Justice and Community Resilience

The EJCR program provides a generative platform and support network for students, faculty, staff, and community partners to collaborate on critical environmental justice issues facing our communities and our world. It builds on past and current partnerships, and invites new and emerging themes, topics, and interconnections across the disciplines and in collaboration with communities locally and farther afield.

Faculty Engaged Scholarship

Engaged scholars direct their energies not solely toward an academic community, or toward the life of the mind, but also toward pressing social, civic, and ethical problems.

This map visualizes the global readership distribution of engaged scholarship publications by Swarthmore faculty.

The Politics and Equal Participation Lab

The Politics and Equal Participation Lab (PEPL) led by Professor Daniel Laurison, talks with low-income and working-class people around Pennsylvania about their experiences with politics to try to understand racial and income inequality in voting. Community-based researchers and Swarthmore students conducted close to 100 interviews this summer, and have been working together to transcribe and analyze them.