Chester Justice Celebration
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
Engaged Humanities Studio
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
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.
"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
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
Political Scientist Keith Reeves ’88 on Meek Mill and Criminal Justice Reform
Keith Reeves ’88, professor of political science and director of the Urban Inequality and Incarceration program at the College's Lang Center for Civic & Social Responsibility, discussed the release of rapper Meek Mill and opportunities to reform the criminal justice system on WHYY's Radio Times. More