<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span id="gmail-m_-2646384996790082187m_-7370410162147867697m_8934240494882664386gmail-m_3932920175106948296gmail-m_3007136213090253505gmail-m_-2848367321936051600gmail-docs-internal-guid-daff495b-7fff-976f-cdc8-bbd945ac93b2"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Affirmative Action/Human Resource Services are once again inviting community members to serve as </span><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uT0ow9qKUivYCfqrf3zyid53_Ahql0gV/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none">Equity Advocate</a>s. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Equity advocates (EAs) are employees that serve as consultants, resources, and advisors to the search committee and who support the search process to engage with a set of diverse candidates. Equity Advocates work closely with the hiring authority and the search committee chair to advocate for principles and practices related to diversity, inclusion and equity throughout the search.</span></p></span></span></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Equity Advocates</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> can be nominated by the College community, including self-nomination. Nomination forms can be found </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SKA5q14QYAppKiN-hPFGdigN0GcI_pFI/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=100200403065634704032&rtpof=true&sd=true" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; the deadline for nominations is April 18, 2022<a dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration-color:rgba(128,128,128,0.38)">.</a> </span></span></p></div><div><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To participate in the third cohort of the Equity Advocates, nominees will complete a comprehensive education program over 4 non-consecutive days in April & May and be able to receive their Equity Advocate Certificate upon completion.</span></span></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please consider nominating any individuals whom you believe would be an asset to the program, including yourself!</span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please send nomination forms to: Richard C. Miller, Interim Vice President for DEI</span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><p style="color:rgb(153,0,255);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:6pt;margin-bottom:10pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:rmill019@plattsburgh.edu" target="_blank">rmill019@plattsburgh.edu</a>.</span></span></p><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <b> Equity Advocate Roles and Responsibilities*</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></font></div></blockquote></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"> Recruitment and hiring Inclusive Excellence statement
SUNY Plattsburgh is committed to, values, is welcoming of, and engages with the range of human experiences that make
up our current and prospective employees. The college affirms that when our recruitment and hiring procedures
intentionally provide access to employment for candidates from minoritized and marginalized identities, we are making
inclusion excellent. The College believes that search committees play a pivotal role in sourcing, recruiting, assessing and
recommending the most qualified and diverse candidates for employment. Search committees are one of SUNY
Plattsburgh’s most viable assets as they are the body that represents the College to prospective employees. The search
committee as a body is stronger with an entity that serves as the proverbial eyes, ears, and heart that infuses an equity minded lens to the process. That entity is the Equity Advocate1
.
Overview
Equity advocates are employees that serve as consultants, resources, and advisors to the search committee and who
support the search process to engage with a set of diverse candidates. Equity Advocates work closely with the hiring
authority and the search committee chair to advocate for principles and practices related to diversity, inclusion and equity
throughout the search.
Roles
• The Equity Advocate (EA) can be nominated by the College community, including self-nomination and will be
selected and appointed by Department Chairs/Directors, respective Deans, and/or Vice Presidents. Those making
the selection should consider the following:
i. State employees (faculty or staff, classified or unclassified)
ii. Has served as a demonstrated resource to College on issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion
iii. Is informed on equity related policies, procedures, and resources on campus
iv. Possesses good listening, communication, and conflict resolution skills
v. Is available to be a resource to search committee and hiring authority
• The EA is appointed and notified of their role as soon as the Hiring Authority announces the vacancy, but before the
search committee is formed and before the vacancy is posted.
• The EA’s membership facilitates an odd number of members on the search committee and is a voting member of the
search committee.
• An EA is always a member of a search committee for recruitment of full-time UUP or M/C positions.
• The EA serves on a search committee associated with a vacancy from a school, department, or division that they are
not a member of, pending availability.
• EAs serve a maximum three-year term and can re-enter the role if no EAs are available, but must have the required
professional development completed.
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An Equity Advocate applies an equity lens to critically think about ways that institutional and structural racism affect minoritized
populations and how they can help disrupt biases and misuses of power that can manifest during the hiring process.
*This serves as a PILOT of the updates to our recruitment to hiring cycle with inclusive excellence infused into the process.
Responsibilities
• EAs must attend an initial orientation with ODEI and AAO when selected for the role.
• Prior to sitting on search committees, EAs must complete required professional development courses that include
the 4 following areas:
1. Avoiding Unconscious Bias in the Hiring Process
2. Whiteness and Labor market discrimination
3. Microaggressions
4. Interviewing diverse candidates
• EAs must attend a training session every year of their three-year term.
• EAs assess the equity climate of the search committee and address issues of inequity (perceived bias,
microaggressions, in-group favoritism) with the search committee chair and/or hiring authority within 24 hours of
them arising.
• EAs ensure diversity-related questions are infused throughout the interview process. Advocates that all the
candidates are provided with a visual version of the interview questions in real time to help engage with the diverse
ways that candidates process information. This could include providing a written version of the questions for them
to reference during an on-campus interview or sharing a screen that includes the questions during zoom interviews.
• The Equity Advocates involved in searches during a particular semester will convene as a focus group at the end of
the semester to assess, evaluate, and make suggestions to improve the process.
Importance of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education
Diversity: Diversity includes the range of human experiences and refers to the visible and invisible forms of
identity as well as status related to job function, generational membership and perspective.
Equity: Equity refers to the inability to predict outcomes by race/ethnicity. It is the process of reaching equality.
Inclusion: Inclusion refers to the intentional engagement with diversity though programs, procedures and
policies to ensure that people feel they belong and are welcomed.<br></div></div></div></div>