Our Mission
The Center for Community and Economic Development creates, applies, and disseminates valued knowledge through responsive engagement, strategic partnerships, and collaborative leaning. We are dedicated to empowering communities to create sustainable prosperity and an equitable global knowledge economy.MSU in Your Community
Michigan State University is the nation's premier land-grant university, and in that tradition, the MSU Center for Community and Economic Development (CCED) is committed to developing and applying knowledge to address the needs of contemporary society. Specifically, our mission is "to advance MSU's Land-Grant Mission by creating, applying, and disseminating valued knowledge through responsive engagement, strategic partnerships, and collaborative leaning. We are dedicated to empowering communities to create sustainable prosperity and an equitable global knowledge economy.In carrying out the mission of the CCED we:
- Create and support an innovative learning environment for collaborative learning in Community & Economic Development
- Provide training and direct assistance designed to increase the capabilities of community-based organizations, private enterprises and public institutions
- Conduct research that assists in the development and implementation of effective problem-solving strategies
- Provide a multidisciplinary capacity to respond to the complex, interrelated issues of distressed communities
- Promote and expand MSU's capacity to provide needed training, direct assistance, and research to address the issues of communities.
How the CCED Reaches Out to Your Community
The CCED was established as an off campus unit of MSU in downtown Lansing Michigan in 1969. Since that time, the CCED has developed a statewide capacity to initiate and support innovative problem-solving strategies to improve the quality of life in communities throughout Michigan.The Center for Community and Economic Development is a unit within MSU University Outreach and Engagement.
