ERIC Number: EJ1032929
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
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Counting Queers on Campus: Collecting Data on Queerly Identifying Students
Crowhurst, Michael; Emslie, Michael
Journal of LGBT Youth, v11 n3 p276-288 2014
Demographic data on students are now routinely collected in universities. However, these data do not include information on sexual orientation and gender identity. In Australia there has been public resistance to tracking the enrollment and retention of gay, lesbian, and transgender people in tertiary education. This article interrogates this absence and refusal. We suggest that not counting queerly identifying university students is an undesirable effect of "power knowledge" as well as a discriminatory practice unjustifiably supported by an assemblage of ideas, activities, systems, discourses, and affectivities. We make a case for collecting such data and argue that doing so is an equity innovation that aligns with diversity work and enhances social justice outcomes in higher education.
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries, College Students, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Enrollment Trends, Academic Persistence, Data Collection, Social Justice, Equal Education, Discourse Analysis, Social Attitudes, History, Resistance (Psychology)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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