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
The University made $11.1 million in direct voluntary payments to the city, and its community contributions for K-12 education, nonprofit organizations and other local priorities were valued at $30.2 million.
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EDUC 1015: Reimagining Power: Community-Driven Evaluation and Education examines trust-based philanthropy practices.
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Brown University seniors Keidy Palma Ramirez and Coco Huang and Class of 2025 alumnus Nicholas Sanzi will pursue graduate degrees at Oxford through one of the most prestigious awards for international study.
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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