![]() ![]() ![]() Posted by Slothrop at 6:27 AM on September 14, 2018 I believe at our institution we would ask for sealed letters mailed from your recommenders. One other thing - each school has their own legal/HR regime which impacts what they can ask for and how they ask for it. As I mentioned at the top, though, you will be lucky to have a recommender who has the time to do that. But, if your recommender also spent a few sentences to indicate why you would be a good fit for a large urban research institution, that would best demonstrate that you were taking the position seriously. In other words, if you are applying to a large urban research institution in the Southeast, at least a few sentences in your letter should make the case for why you think you would be a good candidate in such a place. ![]() It's more incumbent on you to write a cover letter that indicates you have given at least some though to the school to which you are applying, but it would certainly make a positive impression if your recommender was privy to your specific thinking. On the other hand, having reviewed applications for tenure track and lecturer level positions in the last few years, sometimes it's obvious that the applicant (and through them, the recommenders) are just applying for anything they can without much discernment. On the one hand, you will probably be lucky to even have one recommender who would be willing to tailor their letter to specific positions. (This is where you send your recommenders a very nice spread sheet with all of the due dates, instructions for uploading the letters, links to the job description, and a basic breakdown of the position- "large R1 need me to teach first year Comp and Shakespeare" "Small SLAC Intro to Non-Fiction", etc.) a SLAC or speaking to your ability to teach a different slate of courses depending on the position. I'd say even if a bunch of them are all through Interfolio your recommenders will need to do the same-sometimes that could just be switching out the school name other times, that might be needing to do a letter more tailored towards an R1 vs. The positions I was applying for were also slightly different enough that my recommenders had to at least tweak things for each one. At least in my field, I think practically every position I applied for had a different system for uploading the letters. ![]()
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