Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s the time of year when students arrive at my office and ask if I will write them a college recommendation. I say, “Yes, I’ll ...

Black, Hispanic, and first-generation students received shorter recommendation letters or had fewer details about their intellectual promise, according to a study reported on by Inside Higher Ed.

Do you feel like you spend too much time working on your letters of recommendation? Do you want to know how to write letters that are really going to make a difference in your students' applications?

It is around this time of year, when letter-writing season is in full swing, that many professors receive numerous requests for recommendations from students and colleagues applying for graduate ...