Bachelor of Community Development Program Launches Fully Online Cohort!

This September, the Bachelor of Community Development program relaunched in a fully online format. The shift has attracted a diverse cohort from across Canada, including many working professionals already active in the community development sector. A key factor in this broadened access is the program’s supplemental application pathway. This option allows applicants with any post‑secondary credential, combined with relevant work or volunteer experience, to be considered on a case‑by‑case basis. As a result, the program has drawn students with substantial real‑world expertise, which has fostered strong engagement and dynamic knowledge sharing both in the classroom and throughout the wider learning community. “For me, the Community Development degree is more than an academic path,” says Christine Zinni, a Semester 5 student who was already working in the Community Development field when she joined the program. “It’s the space where everything I care about finally intersects. It’s where theory meets lived experience, where social justice isn’t just something we talk about, but something we learn to practice with intention. This program has given me language for the things I’ve always felt, frameworks for the change I want to help create, and the skills to actually do the work in real communities with real people.”