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