Tag: admissions

This article is informed by a conversation between the author and Dr. Peter Piazza, a postdoctoral fellow at Penn State’s Center for Education and Civil Rights. You can find more about Dr. Piazza’s work here. The members of the AJE Forum Student Board would like to extend their thanks to Dr. Piazza for his time,

For many faculty, a sure sign of fall’s arrival is an uptick in email inquiries from prospective graduate applicants. How faculty interpret those emails—and the implicit judgments they make about the students who send them— is an initial step in the months-long admission process that follows. With graduate degrees increasingly prerequisite to access or promotion