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
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
Lang Center Hosts Engaged Scholarship Event at City Hall
Earlier this month, the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility collaborated with Saint Joseph’s University to host “Engaging Philadelphia through Scholarship and Teaching,” a convention at City Hall for faculty members and community partners from the Greater Philadelphia region. More
Four Students Named Stanford University Innovation Fellows
Christopher Gaeta ’22, Emma Parker Miller ’22, Ray Sidener ’21, and Nancy Yuan ’20 learned tools to socially engage with the Swarthmore community. They will also undertake online and on-campus training sessions to identify and address potential problem areas of campus life, based on interviews with students and faculty members and in collaboration with fellowship advisers. More