ABOUT OUR PROGRAMS
CESJ runs several programs designed to build and supplement a social justice community at Lang. Ranging from our intensive, four-year Freedom Scholars program to a summer fellowship, our programs offer a variety of ways to get involved.
Check out what we offer:
2/27/1968-Berkeley, CA: Bobby Seale, 31, assistant defense minister of the Black Panthers speaks to a crowd of approximately 250, after his arraignment at Berkeley County Courthouse.
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The Freedom Academic Achievement and Opportunity Scholars Program is a social justice peer-learning community where an inclusive cohort of students study the elements of intersectional movement building and social justice through a values-based curriculum.
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In Spring 2018, Lang piloted a course at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC), a federal facility located in downtown Manhattan that houses men and women accused of federal crimes or serving short-term sentences. In Fall 2018, we built on this pilot class by running another class solely for MCC students, along with one combined class, bringing Lang students to MCC to engage in classes along with incarcerated students.
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The Office of Civic Engagement & Social Justice at Eugene Lang College (Lang CESJ) offers small grants to individuals and groups of students to support student programming, research costs, activism, creative projects, or other work that focuses on social justice or civic engagement.
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Lang Civic Engagement and Social Justice (Lang CESJ) dedicates funding to Lang students who are pursuing summer internships committed to social justice values, practice, and/or scholarship.
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The work of social justice: The active engagement in identifying, confronting, and dismantling exploitative systems and structures that perpetuate harmful behaviors, rhetoric, and politics—including, but firmly not limited to, anti-Blackness, anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer bigotry, transphobia, xenophobia, sexism, capitalism, and other forms of exploitation, oppression, discrimination and inequity. In recognizing these systemic inequities, we aim to build liberating systems and structures that foster and sustain equitable economic, political and social rights ,opportunities, and outcomes. The work of social justice is dynamic and constantly evolving, as are the ways in which we define social justice and activate the work.., The work of social justice ultimately turns conversation into actionable steps and measurable achievements..
The Lang Social Justice Committee, comprised of students, faculty, and staff across the college, is charged with generating, leading, convening, and connecting the social justice initiatives at Lang College. The Committee will consider such matters such as hiring protocols, equity, diversity and inclusion and related workshops, curriculum, retention, recruitment, assessment, and bias reporting.