Swearer Center for Public Service
Brown University’s Swearer Center for Public Service considers active community participation and social responsibility to be central concerns of the university’s liberal arts education. Activities include one-day service projects, youth education, mentoring projects, community health initiatives, and language and literacy projects. Students work with special needs populations including immigrants, low-income and minority communities, senior citizens, developmentally disabled, the deaf, and adults in need of basic education. Website
Presidential Seminar: “”The Individual, the University, and Responsibility within a Free Society””
Brown University has long prided itself on having a student body committed to community service and social change. And yet, Brown lacked a broad and formal way of discussing issues of ethics, civic responsibility, and community commitment. Upon becoming the seventeenth president of Brown, E. Gordon Gee announced that “Brown is a private university with a public purpose” and has challenged the Brown community to define that ideal. The Presidential Seminar is one vehicle used to discuss that ideal. The seminar is limited to 15 students and with the participation of Peter Hocking, Director of the Swearer Center for Public…
Roles of Watershed Councils in Improving Water Quality in American Heritage Rivers
ES192 Spring 2003 Roles of Watershed Councils in Improving Water Quality in American Heritage Rivers The purpose of this class is to provide experience in cooperative problem-solving efforts to address a current environmental issue. We have found this service learning approach to be a helpful preparation for the independent research you will undertake for your senior thesis and for the kind of work many of our graduates do. In 1999, the RI Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) began to decentralize some of its environmental protection efforts to the watershed level. This effort has been encouraged nationally by the US…
Health of Women
Department of Community Health Arnold Lab Room 496 BIC-214: Health of WomenSpring semester, 1999Wednesday 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Clinical Advisor: Sudeep Aulakh, MD Dept. of General Internal Medicine Rhode Island HospitalPartnership: The National Women's Health Network, Washington, D.C.Staff partner: Brooke Grande Objectives:1. To develop a theoretical framework for conceptualizing what drives population patterns of health, disease, and well-being of women and girl children in relation to social and economic divisions related to race/ethnicity, class and gender. 2. To apply conceptual and methodological principles of study design and data analysis to evaluate epidemiologic and medical literature on women's health. 3….
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