I just want to second Linda's advice about getting hard copy letters rather
than emails for a tenure application (or for any other serious situation).
There's probably no really good logical reason for this from a legal or
technical point of view...after all, signed letters could be bogus just as
easily could be email...but my experience matches Linda's. R&T committees
tend to take signed, hard-copy letters more seriously than emails.
John
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John Serafin
Professor of Psychology
Saint Vincent College
300 Fraser Purchase Rd.
Latrobe, PA 15650
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>From: "Linda M. Woolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: help re: tenure
>Date: Thu, Jul 29, 1999, 6:17 PM
>
> Hi Joyce and all Tipsters,
>
> For those writing letters, I would suggest the following.
>
> Having finished two years chairing the rank and tenure committee at my
> university, I would suggest that you get hard copy letters sent through
> snail mail. I would also suggest that these letters be sent to the
> committee and cc. to you.
>
> The position of my university is that e-mail is equivalent to unsigned
> testimony (due to the ease of falsifying e-mail addresses, etc.
