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.
A Coady Welcome
We celebrated the arrival of 41 global leaders from 19 countries for the 2018 Diploma in Development Leadership program to Coady, StFX University, and the communities of Antigonish at the annual Coady Welcome Social.
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Coady participants were among the hundreds of people who welcomed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the campus of St. Francis Xavier University July 17.
read more2018 Diploma in Development Leadership Participants Arrive
They’ve arrived!
The 2018 Diploma in Development Leadership participants have arrived here at StFX University.