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 ...

The history program where I teach recently made its fourth appointment since I arrived at the university. Our search process has three main steps. First, we ask applicants for a cover letter, a CV, ...

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 ...

It is around this time of year, when letter-writing season is in full swing, that many professors receive numerous requests for recommendations from students and colleagues applying for graduate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...