Academic Careers Workshop for Women in Science and Engineering
Friday, July 7, 2000
Riverhead Room, Battery Hotel
St. John's, Newfoundland
Workshop Objectives
This workshop provided a forum for women who are junior faculty
members or graduate students in Science and Engineering to learn about
the experiences of successful women further along in the academic
pipeline. In a series of panels, women in academia at different
stages in their careers shares their strategies for establishing a
successful and rewarding career. The workshop provides
inspiration as well as practical information, opportunities for
networking, and support to workshop participants.
The workshop was modeled closely on the
CRA-W Academic Careers Workshops
for women in Computer Science and Engineering. It was sponsored
by CRA-W and by the
SWIFT
project at the University of British Columbia.
Following are summaries of the panels, and in some cases, pointers to
the overhead slides used by the panelists in their presentations. The
summaries were prepared using notes from the workshop by Kathy Glynn,
Crystal Nyhus, and Michele Ng.
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Getting a Job:
preparing your curriculum vitae, what to expect in an
interview, negotiating start-up packages.
Faith Fich
(slides):, Elizabeth Cannon
(slides):, Serpil Kocabiyik
(slides):
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Developing a Research Program:,
getting funding, setting up a lab,
advising students, collaborations, journal versus conference publications,
networking and attending conferences, what to do when a paper is rejected.
Lynette D. Madsen, Katherine Schultz, Claire Deschenes
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Getting Tenure:,
building up a good tenure dossier, getting visibility
and recognition for your work, obtaining good references, typical
successful cases; common pitfalls.
Maria Klawe, Monique Frize
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Time Management:,
how to get all of the above done, balancing teaching,
research, and service, having a life outside of work, managing family
and career.
Anne Condon
(slides):, Mary Williams
(slides):, Moyra McDill