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
Through relationships with local farms, businesses and institutions, Brown Dining supports a stronger, more equitable food system.
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The Swearer Center celebrated the induction of its 29th cohort of Royce Fellows, marking another chapter in the university’s commitment to student-driven community research.
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Swearer Center's News from Brown
Through everything from scavenger hunts to cooking demonstrations, the Brown undergraduate is connecting community members and local agriculture as an intern with Farm Fresh Rhode Island.
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The new initiative brought Rhode Island suppliers face-to-face with Brown purchasing decision-makers, breaking down barriers and increasing access to campus business opportunities.
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During a campus conversation to celebrate the launch of the Center for Climate, Environment and Health, panelists explored the impacts of climate change on human health and the research that will drive life-saving solutions.
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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