Carl T. BergstromOct 17, 2023

I spend several hours a week writing letters of recommendation for students and faculty. It's important.

But...today I learned that for the past 6 years, the NSF has been throwing away up to 40% of my graduate fellowship recommendations, unread.

It's an infuriating disregard of faculty time.

https://www.research.gov/research-web/content/rlsprocess

Research.gov - New GRFP Reference Letter Submission Process

Show threadJoanna Masel
@ct_bergstrom I guess it's because so many faculty don't fulfill their obligation to write the recommendation letter, so that students have to ask for 5 reviews in order to have a good chance of having 3 actually submitted?
Oct 18, 2023 at 1:44amWeb
Show threadshizOct 18, 2023
@JoannaMasel @ct_bergstrom not to mention the imposter syndrome (that comes with being anything less than excellent at publishing and networking in academia) which makes it all the more exhausting to have to remind your recommenders multiple times