Swearer Center

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The Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service, an office of the Dean of the College, supports active community participation as a central to a liberal education. Our approach reflects the University's public trust to both prepare students for meaningful engagement in the American democracy and to support scholarship that is of service to the world. The Swearer Center has evolved to fulfill this charge through the powerful combinations of service, learning, vital community, and change.

Recognition of individual social responsibility is intrinsic to successfully addressing our communities' most pressing concerns. For this reason, the Swearer Center encourages people to explore the complexity of social problems -- probing their human, political and moral dimensions. While the Center's work reflects many perspectives, it is grounded in a community development model of respect, cooperation, and partnership. For service to be of value it must develop through enduring relationships that strengthen a community's capacity to meet critical needs.

Established in 1987 by Howard R. Swearer, the fifteenth president of Brown University, the Swearer Center has since developed programs that strengthen leadership skills and provide direct service; connect community-based work with learning; and build meaningful partnerships with local, national, and international communities.

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