Eric Lavigne - Gender, Race, Indigeneity, and Careers in Higher Education: What Counts as Progress?
When it comes to equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigeneity (EDIl), we hear a lot of words, but we don't see so many numbers. Aspirations are expressed, but targets stay unstated and data collection efforts are few and far between.
This is particularly the case for administrators, who stand on the higher rungs of the Canadian higher education career ladder. In the absence of targets or results, all that counts as progress is effort, but should we settle for so little? This presentation explores and discusses the ways by which scholars have found ways around the absence of data and examines the fragmented portray these collectively paint.
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About the speaker
Eric Lavigne
Eric is the Assistant Professor, Higher Education Administration and Leadership at OISE. His research explores how power is granted, enacted, and taken away in higher education organizations. His scholarship is rooted in social realism and guided by three broad questions: 1) How and why do individuals become higher education administrators? 2) How and why do they exercise their authority and leadership? and 3) How and why do they factor potential personal consequences in enacting their roles? Eric's current work uses both qualitative and quantitative approaches to investigate the impact of performance evaluations on administrators' leadership, the demographics and career trajectories of Canadian higher education administrators, and the ways Canadian colleges and universities frame their administrators' roles and qualifications.