Search Advocacy training will be offered during in-service. It is an 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. 

A Search Advocate:

• Provides impartial guidance to the hiring manager, search committee chairs and members throughout the search process
• Facilitates up-front discussion and ground rules for how to handle known applicant issues and conflicts of interest
• Asks questions to help committee members clarify their thinking
• Serves as process advisor watching for things such as negativity bias, halo effects, proxy qualifications, references to “good fit,” and airtime issues.

This is a 5-day training from 9 to 10:30 and requires pre-registration.  Please pre-register by clicking the link below:

https://surveys4jdh.wufoo.com/forms/q1jivzt20ja3trf/