"...the transition [caused by the pandemic has been] particularly difficult for professors running Engaged Scholarship (ESCH) courses, programs that are based on in-person experiences in local communities in Chester and Philadelphia. How would professors emulate in-person experiences when everything was online?" Read this article on The Phoenix about how the Lang Center has adapted to continue to meet its mission of connecting the 3Cs - campus, curriculum, community - during these uncertain times.
Lang Center to Partner with Campus Compact on National Engaged Scholars Initiative
The Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility and Swarthmore College are partnering with Campus Compact to support a national cohort of early career faculty and staff members focused on strengthening their own critical community-engaged scholarship and equity-focused change at their institution and in communities.
https://www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/lang-center-to-partner-campus-compact-nat...
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.
"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
The Front Lines of Change: Tracking Business Behavior During COVID-19
Working with the startup Progressive Shopper this summer, Daniel Torres-Balauro ’23 helped develop the Corporate COVID-19 Index, which uses 14 criteria to evaluate companies’ efforts to minimize worker unemployment, secure worker health and financial security, and support suppliers, community members, consumers, and COVID-19 relief funds. More
Shay Downey ’22 Receives Udall Scholarship for Tribal Public Policy
The scholarship recognizes commitment to Native American nations and the environment and will allow Downey to build on her Lang Opportunity Scholar project, which advocates for missing and murdered Indigenous women and aims to expand resources for survivors. More
Delores Robinson of the Lang Center Named Welsh Award Recipient
"Delores is the Lang Center’s nerve center, the brains behind the brains, and the rhythm in our pulse,” says Associate Professor of Political Science and Executive Director of the Lang Center Ben Berger. "She brings passion and commitment to every aspect of her work." More