Due to COVID-19, Swarthmore College has extended spring break through March 20, and online classes will run March 23 to April 3. The Lang Center will continue to meet our mission under these circumstances, acknowledging that the health and well-being of the global community are of utmost importance. Reach out via email to Lang Center Staff if you have questions regarding how the virus could affect your current and future community engagements.
The Lang Center and Saint Joseph’s University to hosted “Engaging Philadelphia through Scholarship and Teaching” at City Hall for faculty and community partners from Greater Philadelphia. The event enabled attendees to build knowledge, explore current community assets, and make plans for collaboration on co-creation of knowledge and mutually desired outcomes. Click here to read more.
Congratulations to the Class of 2022 Lang Opportunity Scholars! The Lang Opportunity Scholarship supports Scholars in the development of a project that creates a needed social resource in the U.S. or abroad. The program was conceived and endowed by Eugene M. Lang ’38. Click here to learn more about the Class of 2022 LOS cohort!
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.
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.
The Lang Center provides a variety of resources to students, faculty, and community members, including funding, advising, transportation, and space.
Rosa draws on ethnographic research to examine borders delimiting Latinx and American identities as well as co-naturalizations of language and race. More
Kim credits the guidance and encouragement she received from professors and advisors in giving her the determination to pursue it. More
According to Executive Director Ben Berger, additional alumni support enabled nearly two-thirds of all requests to be fulfilled—a 20 percent increase over last year. More