Decolonization of STEM Curriculum

Read a summary of the Decolonizing STEM Curriculum Working Group’s discussions during the second half of 2025 on Medium.

Goals: We seek through this working group to develop a set of curricula for undergraduate students that will be developed and distributed through EAAMO Bridges. Our main goals are to develop these courses around Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization that intersect various fields (i.e., healthcare, art, and law) from an approach that uplifts and acknowledges the efforts of marginalized folks in these spaces.

Why is this needed? The reason for this is that institutions continue to limit our students by forcing them into a narrow focus on STEM that ultimately perpetuates the systems of power and oppression many marginalized people face. Our approach will prioritize centering the perspectives, knowledge, and experiences of historically marginalized groups and actively working to deconstruct and resist colonial structures and ideologies in STEM.

Activities we will engage in are: curriculum design, curriculum building, access and accessible design, student development, career readiness in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, and student support towards the goals we’ve mentioned earlier.

Format: Biweekly meetings where we discuss our project. From time to time, we have invited speakers who come to share their knowledge on a topic of interest.

Selected Deliverables #

• A research paper currently on arXiv: A Justice Lens on Fairness and Ethics Courses in Computing Education: LLM-Assisted Multi-Perspective and Thematic Evaluation (under review).

Working Group Organizer 2026 #

We welcome involvement in this working group! If you’re interested in joining, please reach out to the organizer:

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Alumni of the Working Group #