Résumés
Abstract
Post-secondary institutions in Canada are trying to bring about policy and culture change to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) on their campuses. Uniquely, smaller institutions face barriers due to lack of capacity and personnel. As such, the research presented in this note from the field recommends that forming virtual communities of practice to learn EDI best practices from similar institutions can aid in building capacity and addressing those barriers. However, for EDI communities of practice to be sustainable, the folks leading the community have to be in ongoing, empowered EDI positions rather than being precarious contract employees, as is often the case at smaller Canadian institutions.
Keywords:
- Diveristy,
- Equity,
- Inclusion,
- Virtual Collaboration,
- Community of Practice
Résumé
Les établissements d’enseignement postsecondaire au Canada veulent instaurer des changements politiques et culturels pour promouvoir l’équité, la diversité et l’inclusion (EDI). Les petites institutions font face à des obstacles uniques en raison du manque de ressources et de personnel. Les découvertes présentées dans ce relevé de recherches recommandent de former des communautés de pratique virtuelles pour apprendre les meilleures pratiques en matière d’EDI auprès d’institutions similaires, ce qui peut aider à surmonter ces obstacles. Pour que les communautés de pratique en matière d’EDI soient durables, les personnes qui dirigent la communauté doivent occuper des postes permanents et autonomes en matière d’EDI, plutôt que d’être des employés contractuels précaires, comme c’est souvent le cas dans les petites institutions canadiennes.
Mots-clés :
- Diversité,
- équité,
- inclusion,
- collaboration virtuelle,
- communauté de pratique
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Biographical notes
Tehmina Khwaja
is an international higher education scholar-practitioner associated with academia in Pakistan, the United States, and Canada. She has held a tenure track faculty position and postdoctoral fellowship over her academic career. She has a PhD in educational policy, planning, and leadership in higher education from the College of William & Mary in the United States, where she was a Fulbright student from Pakistan. She is co-editor of the book Critical Approaches to Women and Gender in Higher Education. Her research interests include EDI in higher education, gender and academic leadership, academic culture, and qualitative methodology. She is currently working as the director of equity, diversity, and inclusion at Camosun College in British Columbia, Canada. tehmina.khwaja@gmail.com
Amanda Wager
is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in community-engaged research and professor in the Faculty of Education at Vancouver Island University in Canada. Of Jewish Ashkenazi ancestry, born in Los Angeles and having grown up in Amsterdam, she embraces learning languages and creating art as cultural advocacy. Her research focuses on community-led public art projects involving languages, literacies, and participatory arts-based methodologies, such as storytelling, theatre, mural painting, spoken word poetry, and hip-hop music. Amanda is the founding director of arc: A Centre for Art, Research & Community that works together with many communities across Vancouver Island and beyond using the arts as a form of bridging communities, truth-telling, and language reawakening. amanda.wager@viu.ca
Denise O’Neil Green
is an internationally recognized expert in EDI, organizational change, and transformational leadership. She is an associate professor, graduate faculty, in the Department of Social Justice Education, OISE (Status-Only professor), at the University of Toronto. As vice-president, she founded the Division of Equity and Community Inclusion at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU, formerly Ryerson; 2017–2022) and was the inaugural assistant vice-president / vice-provost, EDI at TMU in 2012. Dr. Green has co-authored The Case for Affirmative Action on Campus: Concepts of Equity, Considerations for Practice and 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women (2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 editions). Dr. Green earned her PhD in higher education and public policy from the University of Michigan. drdeniseoneilgreen@gmail.com
Melissa Lyon
holds an MEd in special education and is the director of Accessibility & Inclusion Matter Consulting. She is a person with a disability who is passionate about creating more inclusive spaces and including disability as part of all EDI initiatives. She has worked as an instructor teaching an accessibility and inclusion course she developed, as a learning experience designer for accessibility, as a curriculum developer, as a student researcher, and as a disability consultant. She has been very involved in facilitating workshops provincially and locally to educate public sector employees about the Accessible BC Act requirements. She is a member of the BC Employment Accessibility Standard Technical Committee and the BC Youth Employment Strategy. melissa.lyon@viu.ca
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Notes biographiques
Tehmina Khwaja
est une spécialiste universitaire-praticienne en éducation supérieure internationale associée à l’académie universitaire au Pakistan, aux États-Unis et au Canada. Elle a occupé un poste de professeur titulaire et de boursière postdoctorale durant sa carrière universitaire. Elle détient un doctorat en politique éducative, planification et leadership en éducation supérieure du College of William & Mary aux États-Unis, où elle a été une boursière Fulbright du Pakistan. Elle est co-éditrice du livre Critical Approaches to Women and Gender in Higher Education. Ses domaines de recherche comprennent l’EDI dans l’enseignement supérieur, le genre et le leadership académique, la culture académique et la méthodologie qualitative. Elle travaille actuellement en tant que directrice de l’équité, de la diversité et de l’inclusion au Camosun College en Colombie-Britannique, Canada. tehmina.khwaja@gmail.com
Amanda Wager
est titulaire d’une chaire de recherche du Canada de niveau 2 en recherche engagée auprès de la communauté. Elle est professeure à la faculté d’éducation de l’Université de l’île de Vancouver au Canada. D’ascendance juive ashkénaze, née à Los Angeles et ayant grandi à Amsterdam, elle valorise l’apprentissage des langues et la création artistique comme moyens de plaidoyer culturel. Sa recherche porte sur les projets d’art public menés par la communauté qui met de l’avant les langues, les littératies et les méthodologies participatives basées sur les arts, tels que le récit, le théâtre, la peinture murale, la poésie parlée et la musique hip-hop. Amanda est la directrice fondatrice d’arc : un centre d’art, de recherche et de communauté qui travaille en collaboration avec de nombreuses communautés à travers l’île de Vancouver ainsi qu’ailleurs en utilisant les arts comme moyen de rapprochement des communautés, de révélation de la vérité et de réveil linguistique. amanda.wager@viu.ca
Denise O’Neil Green
est une experte reconnue au niveau international en matière d’EDI (équité, diversité et inclusion), de changement organisationnel et de leadership transformationnel. Elle est professeure associée au Département d’éducation pour la justice sociale, OISE (professeure « Status-only »), à l’Université de Toronto. En tant que vice-présidente, elle a fondé la Division de l’équité et de l’inclusion communautaire à l’Université métropolitaine de Toronto (UMT, anciennement Ryerson ; 2017-2022) et a été la première vice-présidente adjointe/vice-prévôts, EDI à l’UMT en 2012. Dre Green est co-auteure de The Case for Affirmative Action on Campus : Concepts of Equity, Considerations for Practice et 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women (édition 2016, 2018, 2020 et 2022). Dre Green a obtenu son doctorat en éducation supérieure et en politique publique de l’Université du Michigan. drdeniseoneilgreen@gmail.com
Melissa Lyon
détient une MEd en éducation spécialisée et est la directrice de la société de conseil Accessibility & Inclusion Matter. Elle est une personne ayant un handicap qui s’engage à créer des espaces plus inclusifs et à faire inclure le handicap dans toutes les initiatives d’EDI. Elle a enseigné une classe sur l’accessibilité et l’inclusion qu’elle a développée, en tant que conceptrice d’expériences d’apprentissage pour l’accessibilité, en tant que conceptrice de curriculum, en tant que chercheuse étudiante et en tant que consultante en matière de handicap. Elle a été très impliquée dans la facilitation d’ateliers au niveau provincial et local pour sensibiliser les employés du secteur public aux exigences de la loi Accessible BC. Elle est également membre du comité technique de la norme d’accessibilité à l’emploi de la Colombie-Britannique et de la stratégie d’emploi des jeunes de la Colombie-Britannique. melissa.lyon@viu.ca