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Faculty-Led Initiatives

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The Lang Center supports Faculty-Led Initiatives that encourage interdisciplinary learning and Engaged Scholarship. They embody our commitment to “decentralize” the Lang Center by directly empowering faculty members and their community partners, who together possess the greatest amount of relevant expertise and experience.

We are currently developing a formal application process. Stay tuned for more details!

Faculty-Led Initiatives

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Arts in Action

Arts in Action brings together artists, students, faculty, and staff to engage with the arts for building community and to explore creative and transformative possibilities at the individual and community level.

Arts in Action
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Environmental Justice & Community Resilience

The Environmental Justice & Community Resilience (EJCR) program facilitates action research partnerships grounded in environmental justice and forges diverse campus-community collaborations.

Environmental Justice & Community Resilience
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Global Studies Initiative

The Global Studies Initiative (GSI) supports programming that stresses the interaction of the local and the global and that aims to develop knowledge of global issues, connections, and processes as well as potential solutions to global problems.

Global Studies Initiative
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Native Indigenous Peoples

The Native Indigenous Peoples initiative provides important links between events, courses, programs and related presentations for and by Native Americans, Indigenous Peoples, and First Nations.

Native Indigenous Peoples
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Politics and Equal Participation Lab

The Politics and Equal Participation Lab is dedicated to understanding and helping to solve class and racial inequality in political participation in the United States.

Politics and Equal Participation Lab
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Urban Inequality & Incarceration

The Urban Inequality and Incarceration (UII) program explores intersections of race, inequality, mass imprisonment, policy and their connections to the carceral disparities present in our local and global communities.

Urban Inequality & Incarceration