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.
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.
"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
Swarthmore Delegation Heads to International Climate Negotiations
“It’s the only intergovernmental platform in the world where all nations can assemble and discuss how to adapt to and mitigate climate change,” says Eriko Shrestha ’19, one of six students making the trip to Poland. More
Clinton Global Initiative Recognizes Swarthmore Students for Social Change Efforts
Rebecca Castillo ’20 (left) was honored for her media literacy project, and Alice Dong ’19 helped design the winning project at the event's codeathon. More
Swarthmore Announces New Early Medical School Acceptance Program
“Doctors trained in the liberal arts are increasingly vital to the profession for their ability to treat patients holistically," says President Valerie Smith. More