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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.

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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. 

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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

College Receives Community Engagement Classification

College Receives Community Engagement Classification

Applied for by the Lang Center for Civic & Social Responsibility, the classification "recognizes and affirms the College’s long-standing, demonstrated commitment to ethical intelligence and the common good.”More
Swarthmore Delegation Heads to International Climate Change Conference

Swarthmore Delegation Heads to International Climate Change Conference

The delegation of students, faculty, and staff, including Professor Giovanna Di Chiro, will visit Lima, Peru, to strengthen the College's role in the international climate movement.More
Students Canvass Polling Stations on Election Day in Lang-Center Funded Statistics Project

Students Canvass Polling Stations on Election Day in Lang-Center Funded Statistics Project

"I want students to see the power of statistics and how it can be used to answer relevant societal questions," says Assistant Professor of Statistics Kelly McConville about the project.More

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