"...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
Rose Ridder ’20 Named Laureate of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Rose Ridder ’20 is now a laureate of the country’s oldest engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi, in recognition of excellence beyond her chosen field. Ridder, a Lang Scholar who taught English at a school in Thailand, supplemented the school’s science program for a beyond-the-classroom, hands-on science experiment with a nearby water supply. More
Nancy Awad ’20 Gives Inside Look on Lang Opportunity Scholar Project
Nancy Awad ’20 used her Lang Opportunity Scholarship to create the Benat Seshat Initiative, a social project that teaches computer literacy to orphaned young women in Upper Egypt. More
Swarthmore Begins Three-Year Partnership with Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Swarthmore is strengthening its commitment to engaged scholarship across the globe through a partnership with the Pulitze More