Do you have a contract (we do) that specifies the areas on which a
candidate for tenure will be evaluated, and how the criteria for evaluation
will be arrived at?
Under our contract, this sort of anecdote would at best be a minor
favorable item.
At 3:01 PM -0400 10/20/00, David wrote:
>Person A is up for tenure as an Associate Professor.
>
>Person B is a colleague of mine who's been asked to write a peer
>letter of recommendation for person A.
>
>Person B considers Person A a pretty good friend as well as a
>respected colleague. Person B's letter _could_ include some
>reminiscence about the intellectual pleasures of having kicked around
>ideas with Person A, ideas that turned out to be academically
>productive. Would this be considered too informal or personal for a
>tenure letter? If not, would it be considered too anecdotal to
>constitute the _focus_ of the letter?
>
>In other words, what ingredients should go into this kind of letter,
>and in what proportions? What should be the overall tone?
>
>--David Epstein
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