Academic reference letters are an essential aspect of academic life. Nearly every educator will be asked to write a range of reference letters during their career. In my long experience of doing so, I ...

Shortly after becoming a full professor, I asked a colleague who had held that rank for years to name the greatest challenge she had faced in this ultimate chapter of faculty life. Her instant reply: ...

Huculak said using ChatGPT can help academics break the cycle of recycling old reference letters. An academic at the University of Victoria in Canada used ChatGPT to help write a reference letter for ...

Over the decades that I’ve worked in universities, I’ve watched academic letters of reference become increasingly inflated. And letter inflation goes beyond the academy; friends who hire in business ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Along with teaching and research, many professors feel like they’ve got another full-time job each ...