A student tweeted that his professor asked for a fee to write a letter of recommendation, and the claim has gone viral. “My professor really has the audacity to charge me to buy both his textbook and ...

CU Boulder Career Services partners with PrivateFolio to provide file management services for students and alumni. PrivateFolio allows students to create an electronic dossier (also called a portfolio ...

A professor at the University of Michigan is rescinding an offer he made to write a letter of recommendation for a student because she’s studying abroad in Israel. Club Z, a Zionist Youth Organization ...

A tenured University of Michigan professor has been disciplined for refusing to write a letter of recommendation for a student who wanted to study in Israel. John Cheney-Lippold won’t get a merit ...

A student’s claim that a professor charged for a recommendation letter recently went viral online. “My professor really has the audacity to charge me to buy both his textbook and rec letter from him ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Social media is full of reports on higher education -- some true and many false. We typically ignore ...

For the past nine years, I’ve been an instructor, a Ph.D. student, adjunct professor, and post-doctoral fellow in humanities departments at several different universities. During this time, many ...

A few years ago, I wrote “A Letter to College Students (From All Profs)” in which I provided advice to students about how to ask for letters of recommendation. Interestingly, just as students do not ...

John Cheney-Lippold, a tenured professor at the University of Michigan, was denied a raise and sabbatical privileges as punishment for refusing to write a letter of recommendation for a student to ...

A professor from the University of Michigan has been criticized for refusing to write a letter of recommendation for a student who wanted to study abroad in Israel. John Cheney-Lippold, a UM digital ...