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
Lang Opportunity Scholars Named for Class of 2023
“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
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