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From: Hank Levy <levy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:57 PM
Subject: [Ugrads] Allen School Industry Affiliates Program
To: <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, <vgrads@cs.washington.edu>
Hi CSE students;
Thanks to all of you who participated in our career fair last week – we hope you learned a lot about the companies and found interesting opportunities. In light of this experience, I want to tell you a little about the Allen School’s Industry Affiliates Program, which we have created in large part for your benefit.
The goal of our Industry Affiliates Program is to stimulate mutually beneficial interactions between the Allen School community and the tech community: these include providing career opportunities for our students, technical exchange, collaboration, feedback on the effectiveness of our education programs, etc.
The principal benefits to companies are the opportunity to participate in our fall and winter recruiting fairs and the opportunity to participate in an annual daylong research symposium, which includes student research presentations and poster sessions. While we charge a fee for membership in the program, this fee simply covers the expenses of running the program – e.g., the costs involved in putting on the recruiting fairs and research symposium.
The membership of a company in the Affiliates Program should not be construed as an endorsement. As a public institution we have a particular responsibility to remain as neutral as possible in administering our program. We have terminated (or threatened to terminate) the membership of companies for violations of our recruiting policies (policies designed to protect the interests of our students, e.g., we prohibit the use of high pressure or of “exploding offers”). However we have not excluded companies based on their business and we do not see a coherent way to deny membership to an otherwise legitimate company: many companies, even those widely regarded as good corporate citizens, engage in some practices that some individuals may find objectionable.
We trust all of our students to learn about different companies, to be smart consumers of job offers, and to vote with their feet when deciding which companies to visit at our recruiting fairs. These are choices that you will need to make throughout your lives.
Best,
Hank
Hank Levy
Director, Paul G. Allen School