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No More Endorsements


Last year a few students asked for my endorsement on .  I wrote a few, growing more uncomfortable with each about their lack of a specific audience and permanence online.  I decided last fall not to endorse anyone else on or comparable sites.  I didn’t have to apply my decision until yesterday, when I rejected a former student’s request for a endorsement.  I explained that I would be happy to recommend him to a specific employer or graduate school; he was a terrific student.  My rejection has nothing to do with his merits.  I am rejecting the concept of permanent, open-ended, recommendations.

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This was written by David Randall. Posted on Tuesday, March 10, 2009, at 5:06 pm. Filed under Teaching. Tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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