OSU Search Advocate Program

SEARCH AND SELECTION RESOURCES:

• Search Excellence guide (University Human Resources)
• Recruitment Resource guide (Equal Opportunity and Access)
• Faculty Recruitment Toolkit (Office of Institutional Diversity)
  • Faculty Search Timeline - part of toolkit - describes common practices, considerations, and timing at each stage of a faculty search

CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: 

In order to ensure quality and consistency with program recommendations, each advocate must complete 3 units of continuing education every 12 months.  The web directory is updated annually, based on an analysis of CE credit recorded between September of the previous year and the end of August of the current year.  Options to meet this requirement include:

1. Search Advocate Workshops, Community of Practice meetings, and Update Workshop offerings
   • Complete the SA workshop series = 3 credits
   • Complete a half-day SA Update workshop = 3 credits
   • Attend one Community of Practice meeting = 1 credit
   • Attend another Search Advocate workshop or program (credits vary)
2. Social Justice Education Initiative Workshop offerings
   • Complete Tier One of the Social Justice Education Initiative (SJEI) series, Sessions 1, 2, & 3 = 3 credits if you send an email including the title and your completion date to anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu
   • Complete any Tier Two SJEI workshop = 1 credit  if you send an email including workshop title and date to anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu
3. Office of Institutional Diversity Diversity Education options
   • Complete Dialogue Facilitation Lab (https://diversity.oregonstate.edu/main/dialogue-facilitation-lab) - 3 credits if you send an email including program title and dates attended to anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu
   • Complete Leading Change for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - 3 credits if you send an email including program title and dates attended to anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu
4. Other OSU and related options
   • Difference, Power, and Discrimination Academy (https://dpd.oregonstate.edu/dpd-academy) - 3 credits if you send an email including program title and dates attended to anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu
   • Extension & Engagement Diversity Champions 1-year cohort series (https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/diversitychampions/) - 3 credits if you send an email including program title and dates attended to anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu
   • Attend a university or community event about a relevant topic = 1 credit if you email a summary of key points along with your thoughts about relevance to the SA role to anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu (feel free to check in advance if you aren't certain about relevance)
   • Other options will be announced to the listserv as they occur

CE credits for Search Advocate offerings are recorded from the event rosters, so be sure to sign in if you attend!  We recommend you obtain some of your CE credit from the SA program each year in order to keep current with the program's recommended practices.  All other CE credits will be recorded when you send email to anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu as described above.

SEARCH ADVOCATE ELIGIBILITY AND VISIBILITY IN THE SEARCH ADVOCATE DIRECTORY: 

For more information about the continuing education requirement, instructions about managing your record in the Search Advocate Directory, and information about checking your current continuing education credits, please log in to the Search Advocate Community in CANVAS and follow the instructions in Module 3.

ACCESS TO CANVAS SEARCH ADVOCATE COMMUNITY FOR NON-OSU SEARCH ADVOCATES:

If you are a non-OSU Search Advocate, you will continue to have access to the Canvas Search Advocate Community but you need to use a different Canvas link: 

• If you participated as a guest in OSU's workshop series and registered as a visitor in OSU Canvas, please follow this CANVAS VISITOR LOGIN link to access the Canvas Search Advocate community you joined for the workshop series
• If you participated in an OSU-led workshop series specifically for your institution, please follow this CANVAS FREE FOR TEACHERS login link to access the Search Advocate community you joined for the workshop series