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[[Wolfgang Köhler]], [[Hans Wallach]], and [[Solomon Asch]] were noted psychologists who became professors at Swarthmore, a center for Gestalt psychology. Both Wallach, who was Jewish, and Köhler, who was not, had left [[Nazi Germany]] because of its discriminatory policies. Köhler came to Swarthmore in 1935 and served until his retirement in 1958. Wallach came in 1936, first as a researcher, also teaching from 1942 until 1975. Asch joined the faculty in 1947 and served until 1966, conducting his [[Asch conformity experiments|noted conformity experiments]] at Swarthmore.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html|title=Asch Experiment|access-date=May 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191227222524/https://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html|archive-date=December 27, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
The 1960s and 1970s saw the construction of new buildings: Sharples Dining Hall in 1964, Worth Health Center in 1965, the Dana/Hallowell Residence Halls in 1967, and Lang Music Building in 1973.<ref name="briefhist"/> They also saw a 1967 review of the college initiated by President Courtney Smith, a black protest movement, in which African-American students conducted an eight-day [[sit-in]] in the admissions office in 1969 to demand increased black enrollment – the sit-in abruptly ended after Smith's death from a heart attack on January 16<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/swarthmore-college-presidents/courtney-c-smith|title=Courtney C. Smith, 1953-1969|publisher=Swarthmore College|accessdate=August 31, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1969/01/17/archives/head-of-swarthmore-dies-during-protest-school-head-dies-during-a.html|title=Head of Swarthmore Dies During Protest|publisher=[[New York Times]]|page=1|date=January 17, 1969|accessdate=August 31, 2024}}</ref> – and the establishment of both a Black Cultural Center (1970) and Women's Resource Center (1974).<ref name="briefhist"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/timeline/1969-black-student-protest-movement|title=1969 black student protest movement|publisher=Swarthmore College|access-date=April 7, 2018|date=June 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408073416/https://www.swarthmore.edu/timeline/1969-black-student-protest-movement|archive-date=April 8, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.swarthmore.edu/timeline/1975-alice-paul-05-and-womens-center|title=1975 Alice Paul '05 and the women's center|publisher=Swarthmore College|access-date=April 7, 2018|date=June 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408010428/https://www.swarthmore.edu/timeline/1975-alice-paul-05-and-womens-center|archive-date=April 8, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The Environmental Studies program and the Intercultural Center were established in 1992, and in 1993 the [[Lang Performing Arts Center]] was opened; the Kohlberg Hall was then established in 1996.<ref name="briefhist"/>
In 1999 the college began purchasing [[renewable energy credit]]s in the form of [[wind power]], and in the 2002–2003 academic year it constructed its first [[green roof]].<ref name="briefhist"/> In 2008, Swarthmore's first mascot, Phineas the [[Phoenix (mythology)|Phoenix]], made its debut.<ref name="briefhist"/>
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