What is a Search Advocate?
Search Advocacy is one active recruitment tool that can be used in both faculty and staff searches. A Search Advocate is a consultant/participant who advances inclusive excellence by asking questions to help search committee members:
- Test their thinking
- Identify and promote practices that advance diversity and social justice
- Minimizing the impacts of cognitive and structural biases.
The Search Advocate training curriculum prepares faculty and staff to serve as advocates on search committees.
Who oversees the program?
- Led by Charlotte Moats-Gallagher, AVP and Director of CoDaC, working closely with Human Resources and the Office of the Provost.
- Workshop Leader: Anne Gillies, Search Advocate Program Director, Oregon State University
For more information about UO’s Talent Acquisition work in Human Resources, please see: https://hr.uoregon.edu/recruit.
For more information, contact: Charlotte Moats-Gallagher, AVP and Director of CoDaC, cmoatsga@uoregon.edu
