Acadia ALERT - Campus Closed (Weather)

Today, Monday December 08, 2025, Acadia University will remain closed, with the exception of residences and Wheelock Dining Hall, due to the current weather, poor travel conditions and King's Transit cancelling service for the day. Wheelock Dining Hall may adjust their hours due to the weather and any change in hours will be communicated through Residence Life.

Employees and students are not expected to come to campus and only employees deemed essential are required to report to work. Non-essential employees are not expected to work during the closure. Any events scheduled for today will be postponed or cancelled. All exams scheduled for today will be rescheduled to a later date.

Updates will be posted on www.acadiau.ca and pre-recorded on Acadia’s Information Line: 902-585-4636 (585-INFO). If you need emergency-related information, please contact the Department of Safety and Security by dialing 88 on all 585-phone systems, or by calling 902-585-1103.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Acadia University

Department of Safety & Security

902-585-1103

security@acadiau.ca

(Monday December 8, 2025 @ 11:34 am)

Welcome to Community Development

Lead, Learn, Transform

The Bachelor of Community Development at Acadia University equips students with the skills, knowledge, and experience to contribute to ethical, inclusive, and transformative community change. Through interdisciplinary education, experiential learning, collaborative partnerships, and critical reflection, we prepare students to integrate theory and action, analysis and imagination. We recognize the complexity and uncertainty of the world students are entering—and we support them to think critically, lead with care, and act with courage and humility. Our graduates are prepared to work across sectors and scales, building relationships and co-creating strategies with communities to advance equity, sustainability, and collective well-being—while helping shape diverse and thriving futures.

Our program is here to help you become a thoughtful, skilled, and courageous changemaker—ready to meet a world that’s complex, uncertain, and in need of care. At Acadia, you’ll learn to connect big ideas with real action—through hands-on projects, interdisciplinary learning, and deep community relationships. We’ll support you to think critically, lead collaboratively, and stay grounded in values like belonging, collaboration and sustainability. You’ll graduate ready to work across sectors and communities, not with all the answers, but with the clarity, curiosity, and tools to help shape more just and desirable futures.

At Acadia, Community Development isn’t just something you study—it’s something you live, lead, and create. Here’s what you’ll be ready to do when you graduate:

  • Turn Ideas into Real-World Action
  • Lead with Purpose
  • Make Change That Lasts
  • Build Relationships That Matter
  • Do Research That Makes a Difference
  • Become an Engaged Global Citizen
  • Create & Deliver Community Projects
  • Think Across Boundaries
  • Know Yourself as a Changemaker
  • Plan, Fund & Grow Big Ideas

The Acadia Community Development program seeks to build stronger community-university partnerships with and among diverse communities, Indigenous peoples, African Nova Scotians, newcomers, and historically white settler communities. We foster civic engagement and mobilize for social and environmental justice in the classroom and community. Please visit our Land Acknowledgement page.