Swearer Center for Public Service
Swearer Center for Public Service
The Swearer Center is a community of scholars, students, practitioners and community members who works together to build on community strengths and address community challenges.
Swearer Center for Public Service
The Swearer Center is a community of scholars, students, practitioners and community members who works together to build on community strengths and address community challenges.
Students as Changemakers
Through the Swearer Center, students combine their passion for socially just change and community engagement with their academic, career and life goals. Swearer Center programs provide students with community-engaged, cohort-based experiential learning opportunities.
For Students
A Hub for Community Engagement
The Swearer Center cultivates and stewards a wide range of community partnerships to advance the common good.
For Community Partners
Engaged Scholarship
The Swearer Center works with faculty and staff across Brown seeking to strengthen their community engagement as a means of advancing their goals for student learning, diversity and inclusion, research, or public impact – while also addressing community-identified priorities.
For Faculty and Staff
Recent News
Swearer Center's News from Brown
As part of the Brown Collegiate Scholars Program, Brown faculty and staff mentor local high schoolers, supporting their academic and personal growth as they navigate high school, college admissions and more.
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Julia reflects on how community-based learning shaped her path from Brown to a legal career serving K-12 schools.
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As part of a pledge to contribute $50 million over 10 years to local workforce development initiatives, Brown has awarded two $1.5 million anchor grants and launched an open call for letters of interest for future funding.
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Contact Information
Swearer Center | Brown University
2 Stimson Avenue
Box 1974
Providence, RI 02912
- Tel: +1 (401) 863-2338
- Email: swearer_center@brown.edu