Igniting Leadership
StFX’s Coady International Institute has been educating leaders in development from around the world since 1959. Through its unique, community-based approach, Coady Institute equips citizen leaders to address contemporary global challenges and opportunities. Our network includes thousands of graduates and partners working in 130 countries. As a student at StFX, you’ll be sharing the campus with inspiring people from around the globe – from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe – and all places in between.
Mobilizing Community Leaders
Coady’s educational program offers courses that are responsive to learners’ expressed needs, priorities and experience. We place particular emphasis on education programing for women, youth and Indigenous peoples focused on community-based leadership to meet their visions for social and economic change.
Coffee with Coady
The annual Katherine Fleming International Development Award was created by family and friends in loving memory of Katherine Fleming, StFX ’85 alumna, who dedicated her life to helping overcome child poverty in Africa. This year marks the 33rd anniversary of...
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Gambian participant receives Coady Family Global Bursary
The 2018 Diploma in Development Leadership participants traveled to Margaree, Cape Breton where the family of Rev. Dr. Moses Coady hosted them at the family’s homestead and the Coady Tompkins Memorial Library. During the visit, the Coady family presented...
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A message from Dr. June Webber
To the StFX community and alumni, partners, and friends of Coady International Institute – I want to share with you the latest news from Coady, and to address the attention the Institute is receiving of late.
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