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Bringing Them Back
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The University of Washington recently held the On-Ramps into Academia workshop, which aimed to encourage and coach talented and accomplished women in science and engineering to leave the private sector and become faculty members at colleges and universities. "Like everywhere, we work hard to retain women faculty and we want more faculty with real-world experience," says Matthew O'Donnell, dean of Washington's College of Engineering.
The workshop is the second in a series of three, and 45 women attended the first two workshops and four have received full-time faculty positions, according to Washington electrical engineering professor Eve Riskin.
Women with industry experience often bring skills, such as project management, which are not as well developed in higher education, says Washington's Joyce W. Yen. Many women who make the switch from industry to academia find that university jobs provide the intellectual and academic freedom to pursue more diverse areas of research, notes Washington professor Cecilia Aragon.
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