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1. IviarK Jioselana, Iiz.D., MCIP, Director ? roseland@sfu.ca (604) 291-4161
2. (604) 291-5849

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Memorandum

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To:

Senate

From: ?

Alison Watt, Secretary

Senate Committee on Agenda and Rules

Date: ?

March

23, 2004

Subject:

Name Change - Community Economic Development Centre

Action undertaken by the Senate Committee on Agenda and Rules at its meeting of March

23, 2004

gives rise to the following motion:

MOTION: "that Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board of

Governors a change in name from the Community Economic

Development Centre to the Centre for Sustainable Community

Development, effective immedlately"

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Office of the Dean,

Faculty of Arts

MEMORANDUM

To:

John Waterhouse

From: ?

John T. Pierce

VP Academic ?

Dean of Arts

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Subject:

CEDC

Date: ?

February 12, 2004

John, attached is a request from the Director of CEDC and supported by its duly

constituted steering committee to change its name to the Centre for Sustainable

Community Development. The attached documention provides a cogent

rationale.

The name change is a more accurate description of the current mandate of the

Centre as it is of the future research and community outreach direction of the

Centre. Internal to the University there is an important need to better articulate

and focus research on sustainability—something the Centre has already bugun to

do. I strongly support the initiative.

JTP/rt

Attachments

Cc: M. Roseland, Director, Community Economic Development Centre

As recommended by the Steering Committee of the Community Economic Development

Centre, the University's Governing Committee for Centres approves the name change of

the Community Economic Development Centre to the "Centre for Sustainable

Community Development" to reflect a more accurate description of the current mandate

of the Centre.

,/ohn Waterhouse

'ice-President, Academic and Provost

Bruce Clayman

Vice-President, Research

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IviarK Jioselana, Iiz.D., MCIP, Director

roseland@sfu.ca

(604) 291-4161

Christina

Website: http://www.sfu.ca/cedc/

Lai, Program Assistant and

Secretary

chrislai@sfu.ca

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(604) 291-5849

February 3, 2004

URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

OFFICE OF THE DEAN

FEB 09 2004

John Pierce, Dean of Arts

FACULTY OF ARTS

John,

Thanks for your prompt reply to my e-mail regarding my meeting with Bruce Clayman. As

mentioned, enclosed please find revised versions of the following documents (with no

reference to any change in the Centre's status or Schedule):

• The resolution of the CEDC Steering Committee to change the name of the CEDC to the

Centre for Sustainable Community Development.

• A short paper explaining the rationale for the resolution.

• A revised version of our Three-Year Plan.

As before, I'm hoping these documents are what you need to take us the next step.

Please have the original January 6 version of our Three-Year Plan replaced with this January

7 version throughout the Dean of Arts office.

Please let me know if we can assist you in any way, and keep me posted on progress as best

you can. I am trying to meet with Cathy Daminato and Susan McAlevy next week. Thanks

again for your support, John.

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January 12,2004

John T. Pierce

Dean of Arts

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Simon Fraser University

Dear John,

At its December 1, 2003 meeting, the Steering Committee of the Community Economic

Development Centre unanimously and enthusiastically approved the following motion:

MOTION: That the Community Economic Development Centre change its name to the

Centre for Sustainable Community Development

A short document explaining the rationale for this resolution is attached.

We are eager to work with the Dean of Arts office to guide this change through various

university bodies (e.g., Senate) to formal adoption as soon as possible.'

On behalf of the CED Centre Steering Committee,

Mark Roseland, CEDC and Geography

Bob Anderson, Dialogue Institute and Communication

Steve Duguid, Graduate Liberal Studies and Humanities

Alison Gill, Geography and REM

Jock Munro, Economics and Urban Studies

Judy Oberlander, City Program

The Dean of Arts and the Chancellor have each indicated their approval and support.

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SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development

We,

the presidents, rectors, and vice chancellors of universities from all regions

of the world are deeply concerned about the unprecedented scale and speed of

environmental pollution and degradation, and the depletion of natural

resources... These environmental changes are caused by inequitable and

unsustainable production and consumption patterns that aggravate poverty in

many regions of the world... We believe that urgent actions are needed to

address these fundamental problems and reverse the trends...

Universities have a major role in the education, research, policy formation, and

information exchange necessary to ... initiate and support mobilization of internal

and external resources so that their institutions respond to this urgent challenge.

We, therefore, agree to... Increase Awareness of Environmentally Sustainable

Development, ... Create an Institutional Culture of Sustainability,

Establish programs to produce expertise in ....sustainable economic

development... Collaborate for Interdisciplinary Approaches...

from The Taioires Declaration, signed by over 300 university presidents and chancellors in over 40

countries

including Simon Fraser University

I Introduction

The purpose of this document is to introduce the need for a strategic re-branding

of the Community Economic Development Centre (CEDC) at Simon Fraser

University. A variety of internal and external factors have created the conditions

in which a new centre, named the Centre for Sustainable Community

Development (CSCD), will respond more appropriately to societal needs and

funding opportunities. The CSCD will build upon the existing foundations of the

CEDC and enhance the reach and relevancy of the university in the important

area of sustainable development.

2 SFU Resources and Gaps in Sustainability

SFU has a variety of internationally acclaimed faculty and staff with expertise in

sustainable development (e.g., Geography, CED, REM, SFU Community Trust).

However, these individuals are dispersed across the university and lack any

formal institutional linkages or integrative resources.23

By contrast, UBC has an academic focal point for sustainability, the Sustainable Development

Research Initiative (as well as the School of Community & Regional Planning and other academic

units with a strong sustairiability focus), and a non-academic institutional focal point, the Campus

Sustainability Office

SFU Sustainable Campus Coalition (a student initiative) is now agitating for an SFU campus

sustainability office; there is also SFU student participation in a North American "Greening the

Ivory Towers" initiative.

In response to this gap in our sustainability response, it is insufficient for SFU to

simply have, for example, a new Centre for Building Sustainable Enterprises

housed in the Faculty of Business Administration. Similarly, it is insufficient that

the UniverCity development, which is advancing sustainability in SFU's name,

does not have any formal academic link to university research and teaching.

Intellectually and strategically it is imperative that an SFU sustainability centre be

able to draw from expertise across the university.

Simon Fraser University needs a Sustainability Centre as a focal

point that reflects sustainability; it must be integrative and

transdiscipli nary.

3 Why a Centre for Sustainable Community Development?

The transformation from the CEDC to the new Centre for Sustainable Community

Development represents an ideal organizational unit in which to house a new

sustainability emphasis within the university for a variety of reasons.

Course and Program Development:

• Since its founding in 1989, the CED Centre has always defined CED as a way

to integrate economic, social and environmental objectives; this integration is

now recognized globally as sustainable community development.

• The CEDC is the only centre in North America to focus on sustainable CED:

• the only Canadian CED centre with a strong sustainability focus

• the only Canadian sustainability centre with a strong CEO focus

• Since 1999, the CEDC has offered a required course on "Sustainable CEO"

for both undergraduate certificate and post-baccalaureate diploma students;

this is unique in Canada.

• The CEDC offers an elective course on

Sustainable Enterprise Development.

• The

Developing Sustainable Communities

course is required in the CEDC

professional certificate program.

• CEDC has been working for 4+ years to create a graduate program in

sustainable community development:

• we have been in negotiations with a major financial institution to sponsor

the graduate program

• we have been in negotiations with SFU Faculty of Business Administration

to collaborate on a new Centre for Building Sustainable Enterprises and a

possible new graduate management program

• CEDC Director will be teaching an Undergraduate Semester in Dialogue

course on Sustainable Community Development in 2005-3 or 2006-1.

• No other university in BC or Canada has a centre focusing on sustainable

community development.

Research Direction:

The CED Centre has an exceptional record of sustainability-oriented research

(please see annual reports). Our current round of proposal development reflects

a more direct transition towards understanding the mechanisms of sustainable

development:

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• Market Mechanisms for Sustainable Community Development (SSHRC SRG,

3 years, $285,000)

• Site Control for Sustainable Community Development (CMHC, 16 months,

$25,000)

• Integrating Sustainability Into Institutional Practices (SSHRC CURA, 5 years,

$1 million)

• We are also collaborating with the Learning Strategies Group and others on

urban sustainability proposals to Western Diversification and other funders

Leadership:

Mark Roseland,

Ph.D., MCIP, is Director of the Community Economic

Development Centre at Simon Fraser University and is a professor in SFU's

Department of Geography. He was the North American Editor of the international

journal

Local Environment,

published in association with the International Council

for Local Environmental Initiatives, from its outset in 1995 until 2002. Dr.

Roseland lectures internationally and advises communities and governments on

sustainable development policy and planning.

Dr. Roseland has published widely, and his work has been cited in numerous

journals. Over 12,000 copies of Dr. Roseland's book

Toward Sustainable

Communities: A Resource Book for Municipal and Local Governments

were

distributed internationally by the Government of Canada's National Round Table

on the Environment and the Economy. A completely revised and updated edition

of this landmark book, titled Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for

Citizens and Their Governments,

with a foreword by Hazel Henderson, is

published by New Society Publishers.

Dr. Roseland has been awarded 24 funded research projects from a variety of

sources, including the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the

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Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Association of

Universities and Colleges in Canada (AUCC), Forest Renewal BC, the Science

Council of British Columbia, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, VanCity

Savings Credit Union, the Real Estate Foundation of BC, the City of Vancouver,

the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, and the Ontario

and British Columbia Round Tables on the Environment and the Economy.

Dr. Roseland chairs the Community Advisory Committee (CAC) of the Simon

Fraser University Community Trust, which is responsible for the UniverCity

sustainable community development project, and has served on the Trust's

Board of Directors since the early days of the project. He also teaches courses

on sustainable community development that have focused extensively on the

UniverCity project, as well as the City of Vancouver's model sustainable

community being developed at Southeast False Creek, and the Vancouver-

Whistler 2011 Olympic Bid.

Steering Committee Support:

In December 2003 the CEDC Steering Committee unanimously and

enthusiastically resolved to change the Centre's name to the Centre for

Sustainable Community Development. We will be working over the next several

months with the Dean of Arts to guide this change through various university

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bodies (e.g., Senate) to formal adoption.4

Pending approval of the above change by Senate, an expanded Steering

Committee will reflect sustainable community development interests from across

SFU. 5

Proposed additional SFU Steering Committee members would likely

include, for example:'

• Mark Jaccard, Resource and Environmental Management

• Carolyn Egri, Faculty of Business Administration

• Meg Holden, Urban Studies

• Mark Winston, Dialogue Institute and Biology

• Nancy Olewiler, Master of Public Policy and Economics

• Michael Geller, SFU Community Trust (UniverCity)

4 Conclusion

There are numerous exciting possibilities created by a convergence between the

evolution of the CED Centre into the Centre for Sustainable Community

The Dean of Arts and the Chancellor have each indicated their approval and support.

The current Steering Committee includes Bob Anderson, Dialogue Institute and

Communication; Judy Oberlander, City Program; Steve Duguid, Graduate Liberal Studies; Alison

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Gill, Geography and REM; Jock Munro, Economics and Urban Studies.

NOTE: Not all of these people have yet been approached. The Centre will also have external

advisors.

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Development and a more comprehensive commitment by the University to the

challenges posed by sustainable development.

Simon Fraser University should support

The Community Economic Development Centre's evolution into

The Centre for Sustainable Community Development.