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Lawrence Krauss: Concordia University ‘decolonizes’ engineering

Lawrence Krauss: Concordia University ‘decolonizes’ engineering

This will mark out the university as a place to avoid if you’re hoping for a serious education

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“This five-year strategic plan will put Concordia on the map. We’re telling the world this is what we’re doing, and this is how we’re doing it.”

This was part of a recent statement by Donna Kahérakwas Goodleaf, the Director of Decolonizing Curriculum and Pedagogy at Concordia University’s Centre for Teaching and Learning. She was talking about the  university’s new five-year strategic plan to decolonize and indigenize its entire curriculum and pedagogy. The university’s provost, Anne Whitelaw, agreed: “This strategic plan … will change the ways in which we teach at Concordia.”

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