Our Mission
"Advance MSU's land-grant mission by creating, disseminating, and applying knowledge to improve the quality of life in distressed communities and regions. We implement, evaluate, and communicate innovative approaches through responsive engagement, strategic partnerships, and collaborative learning."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 contemorary society. Specifically, our mission is "to advance MSU's Land-Grant Mission by Creating disseminating, and applying knowledge to improve the quality of life in distressed urban and regional communities. We implement, evaluate, and disseminate innovative approaches through responsive engagement, strategic partnerships, and collaborative learning."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 to issues of distressed communities
- Promote and expand MSU's capacity to provide needed training, direct assistance, and research to address 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 its outreach scholarship into Michigan and has 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. The CCED provides a multidisciplinary capacity to respond to the complex, interrelated issues of communities and provides an innovative learning environment for collaborative learning in community and economic development.
