The Lang Center offers various grants for summer opportunities! Students can get up to $5500 for 10 weeks. Applications are due February 15, 2023.
Students are required to receive an advising session before applying. Set up a SISS advising appointment with an LCA, CCF advising with Ashley Henry, or a FLER or pilot project session with Jennifer Magee.
This summer, the 2022 cohort of Chester Community Fellows in collaboration with Chester partners hosted the "Chester Justice Celebration", an event designed to foster a deeper understanding of and connection to cultural identity, environmental justice and civic engagement among Chester youth. A series of interactive workshops were led by community activists.
Photo by James Robinson
Three faculty members and two students have been announced as 2022-2023 Engaged Humanities Studio Fellows. A new initiative from the Lang Center, the Engaged Humanities Studio (EHS) brings together scholars, students, artists, activists, and community members for collaborative projects that address issues of pressing social concern. Read about the projects.
Photo by Ima Jing
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.
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.
Hernandez was recently selected for the Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship, a program that provides funding, mentorship, and support for student journalists to report on global issues that are rarely covered in the national media. The fellowship is made possible by the three-year partnership between Swarthmore and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. More
Nader Almadbooh ‘23 joins 211 other students from across the U.S. and Mexico in this year’s Newman Civic Fellowship. The yearlong program is for students from Campus Compact member institutions who demonstrate leadership on their campuses along with a commitment to finding solutions for challenges facing communities locally, nationally, and internationally. More
“The Lang Scholar Class of 2023 is an inspiring cohort who exemplify engaged scholarship,” says Jennifer Magee, senior associate director for the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, who advises the scholars. “With the mentoring and resources available through the Lang Center, Lang Scholars gain the knowledge, connections, and skills needed to craft effective and innovative solutions to complex social challenges.” More