Swearer Center for Public Service
Strategic Plan and Assessment
Strategic Goals
| Goal | Description |
|---|---|
| Engage Based on Community-Identified Priorities | Ensure that expertise, ideas, priorities, and data gathered directly from a diverse cross-section of community partners inform where and how the Swearer Center connects and devotes resources. An emphasis will be placed on community partners that are led by and/or working with people most impacted by social injustice. |
| Foster Student Reflection, Learning, & Civic Commitment |
Foster students’ demonstrated commitment and action towards a more inclusive, just, and sustainable world. Ensure that Swearer Center teaching, educational programming, and advising advance Brown University’s educational goals and are clearly aligned with community-identified priorities and Center-wide learning outcomes (for example, critical thinking, justice related to origin and value of knowledge, systemic analysis, ethical practice, and personal and collective responsibility). |
| Advance Community-Engaged Teaching & Research |
Critical to Brown’s academic excellence, community-engaged teaching and research ensures powerful experiential learning for students, and high-impact knowledge creation, application, and translation opportunities for faculty and other scholars. The Swearer Center will create and maintain resources and support for faculty, staff, and students to advance the design, implementation, and sustainability of teaching and research that addresses community- identified priorities. |
| Build Capacity for Just & Sustained Community Engagement |
Contribute to a strong and reliable community engagement infrastructure. That is, deepen, leverage, and sustain Brown University’s investments in people, relationships, systems, and tools, and align programs and processes on- and off-campus to advance social justice. Collaborate to advance and enhance Brown University’s policies and practices that honor and are informed by community input and interests. |
Learning Priorities
Swearer Center Learning Priorites
As part of it's Strategic Plan, the Swearer Center has identified a core set of five learning priorities to inform our programs, fellowships, and other initiatives, and to guide our assessment and evaluation of our work.
View the Full Strategic Plan
The Swearer Center engaged more than 200 campus and community stakeholders to develop a strategic plan that reaffirms our organizational purpose and values and builds on our strengths, while anticipating and seeking to leverage future opportunities and challenges.