CAS: Application Letter of Support
Instructions to Referees
The Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign encourages creative achievement and scholarship among its faculty by providing release time as Associates (tenured faculty) or Fellows (untenured faculty) in the Center. Selected in an annual campus-wide competition, faculty are released from classroom teaching to carry out a research activity described in the statement of plans submitted to the Center.
Referee Selection Criteria
We would like your candid and critical appraisal of the faculty member
and his/her statement of plans. Please address the following:
—Significance of the proposed project
—Quality of the plans to carry it out
Specifically evaluate the applicant as follows:
—Accomplishment in areas related to the proposed work
—Comparison of applicant with others within and across disciplinary and professional areas