What is a reasonable number of letters of support?
Review Initiators can solicit letters from anyone qualified to evaluate the candidate, including a reasonable number from the list provided by the candidate. Letters should be solicited from people who can evaluate significant achievements of the candidate’s work. Such people may include professional UCB or external colleagues who can evaluate the candidate’s contribution to a professional association, committee, program or project; chairs of committees, work groups or task forces on which the candidate has served; and employees the candidate has supervised. It may include faculty with whom the candidate has worked. CAPA has no hierarchical list of people who are considered more important than others for inclusion in the review dossier. Candidates new to UCB may naturally have more letters from non-UCB people as more of the candidate’s significant achievements may have occurred in previous positions. All letters used by the Review Initiator will become part of the candidate’s file. APM
