Inspired by the big thinking of our predecessors and contemporaries in higher education, Concordia will foster a culture that values ambitious experimentation.

Universities are sites for the construction of new knowledge, so they ought to be places where people have licence to spy out promising opportunities, test possible solutions, and productively fail—anchored at all times by a strong sense of the academy as a distinctive place for thinking critically and public-mindedly.

In the face of questions about what kinds of universities our society needs in the future, Concordia will incubate ventures that help set the mold.