Scholarships, Fellowships, Academic Internships, and Grants: Faculty Resources

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• "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 intuitively know how to find letter writers, faculty members, too, seem to lack automatic insight into how to write strong letters on their students’ behalf. In our years of training to become researchers, I doubt many of us are taught to write recommendation letters..." Continued at https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2016/12/02/how-write-stronger-letters-recommendation-students-essay?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=af31fc1fbc-DNU20161202&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-af31fc1fbc-198465321&mc_cid=af31fc1fbc&mc_eid=b31d9bc458

• Avoiding Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters 

• Writing Recommendation Letters -Handbook for Faculty---Building on the foundation laid by the popular earlier print editions of his faculty handbook on writing recommendation letters, Joe Schall digs deeper in this new online edition, addressing issues ranging from the ethical considerations faculty wrestle with when writing letters to the new challenges posed by the information age. Citing sources ranging from The Chronicle of Higher Education to refereed journal articles to excerpts from listserv discussions among scholarship directors, this handbook advises faculty on the best practices when writing letters for students, as well as informs writers about nine of the nation’s top scholarships and the detail that selectors crave in winning scholarship reference letters.

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