Simon Fraser University’s Community Economic Development (CED) Program has prepared multiple generations of practitioners for environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive economic development at the neighborhood, municipal, and regional scales.
SFU’s CED program is considered a leader in CED across Canada, and our content is both progressive and unique compared to peer institutions. The CED Program differentiates itself from traditional economic approaches and is rooted in theoretical and embodied resistance to traditional capitalism and growth machine development. However, we also recognize that many communities rely on existing economic structures and resource extraction, so we teach a spectrum of approaches from incremental to transformational. As practitioners ourselves, we recognize that different students have different needs when they return to their home communities.
Since 2001 SFU has offered the Certificate Program for Community Economic Development (CED Program) to hundreds of students in dozens of cohorts drawn from around the world, with a particularly active concentration of students drawn from BC and Alberta.
Now accepting applications for Spring 2021 cohort! Apply now!
Application deadline: April 15, 2021 (accepted on a rolling basis until program is filled)
Program dates: April to December, 2021
