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
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
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
How to Engineer a Better Stormwater Runoff System and Improve the Environment at the Same Time
Professor of Engineering Art McGarity’s five-year stormwater management project, which discovered that green infrastructure can mitigate cities’ runoff woes, embodies the interdisciplinary spirit of Swarthmore and potential dynamism of Maxine Frank Singer '52 Hall. More
Swarthmore Honored with National Award for Engaged Scholarship in Chester
Swarthmore is the sole recipient of this year’s Excellence in Student Engagement Award from the Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC), in recognition of its Chester Community Fellowship (CCF) program. More
Omri Gal ’19 Teams With Philadelphia Union to Help Chester Youth
With help from a grant from the Lang Center for Civic & Social Responsibility, Omri Gal ’19 began Design FC, an after-school program that teaches fifth- and sixth-grade students in Chester to think about design through the medium of soccer. More