Global Diversity & Inclusion, Human Resources and Academic Affairs are pleased to present the Search Advocate Program to our campus community. We have heard your requests and we need your engagement.
Search Advocates are volunteer PSU faculty, staff, and administrators who are trained as search and selection process advisors, partners and consultants. Their preparation includes a 16-hour workshop series that deepens their understanding of the structural and cognitive biases and the barriers to inclusive search processes and equitable hiring, teaches inclusive recruiting, search and selection principles and offers practical strategies for each stage of the search process, and effective ways to be an advocate on a search committee.
Search advocates are not a part of their departments, allowing for a more objective lens and empowering the advocate to speak up with less concern about consequences.