OSU Search Advocate Program

SEARCH AND SELECTION RESOURCES:

• Search Committee online training
• Recruitment and Selection Resources (Human Resources page with links to different university recruitment/selection resources)
• 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

ZOOM OPEN OFFICE HOURS FOR OSU SEARCH ADVOCATES:

OSU Search Advocates are invited to bring questions, suggestions and ideas to informal Zoom "drop in" office hours with Anne Gillies (Search Advocate Program Director). Office hours are open to anyone affiliated with OSU - please don't hesitate to stop in and say hello.   You may also contact Anne directly at any time with your questions--no need to wait for office hours!  If you are not affiliated with OSU, please contact Anne by email (anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu) to arrange an individual meeting.   Click here for office hours schedule and Zoom link.

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.  Eligibility is calculated each September by tabulating 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 - please earn your CE credits directly from the Search Advocate Program AT LEAST EVERY OTHER YEAR
   • Search Advocate Foundations series (3 credits)
   • Search Advocate Annual Update workshop (3 credits)
   • Community of Practice meeting (1 credit)
   • Other Search Advocate workshops or programs (credits vary)
2. Other continuing education offerings - you may request CE credit for the following during years in which you do NOT complete your CE through the Search Advocate Program
   • Social Justice Education Initiative Workshop offerings - SJEI credit is recorded when you email anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu after completion to provide title, number of hours, and date completed
     • Tier One of the Social Justice Education Initiative (SJEI) series, Sessions 1, 2, & 3 (3 credits)
     • Any Tier Two SJEI workshop  (1 credit)
   • Office of Institutional Diversity's Diversity Education options - OID credit is recorded when you email anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu after completion to provide title, number of hours, and date completed
     • Dialogue Facilitation Lab (https://diversity.oregonstate.edu/main/dialogue-facilitation-lab)  (3 credits)
     • Leading Change for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (3 credits)
     • Other Institutional Diversity offerings (credits vary)
   • Additional OSU options
     • Career Champions (3 credits) - Career Development Center notifies the Search Advocate program as people complete this series
     • Difference, Power, and Oppression Academy I or II  (3 credits)  - credit is recorded when you email anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu after completion to provide title, number of hours, and date completed
     • Extension & Engagement Diversity Champions 1-year cohort series (3 credits) - Extension & Engagement notifies the Search Advocate program annually as people complete the program.
   • Other university, community, or professional development events about relevant topics - email anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu after completion to provide title, date completed, number of hours, brief summary of key points, your thoughts about relevance to the Search Advocate role.  Feel free to check in advance if you aren't certain about relevance (credits vary)

CE credits for Search Advocate offerings are recorded from the event rosters, so be sure to sign in if you attend!  We recommend you select Search Advocate program continuing education offerings at least every other year (to keep current with the program's recommended practices); you may use Search Advocate program offerings or other offerings listed above for alternate years.  CE credits earned through the Search Advocate program are recorded automatically; credits from all other programs are only recorded AFTER you send email to anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu as described above.

SEARCH ADVOCATE ELIGIBILITY: 

For more information about the continuing education requirement and instructions to check your current eligibility/continuing education credits, please log in to the Search Advocate Community in OSU CANVAS and follow the instructions in the Welcome Module.

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 a 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