The Career Planning and Placement office is conducting its regular review of active reference letter files. As part of an ongoing process, files that have been inactive since December 1987 will be destroyed by the Reference Letter Center (RLC).

To maintain an active file, a student or alumna/us must have conducted one or more of the following transactions since December 1987: transmitted (mailed) reference letters as part of an admission or employment process; added new letters to the file; submitted updated personal data (e.g. current address, telephone or newly acquired degree).

To reactivate a file that has not been used since 1987, contact the Reference Letter Center by August 30, 1997. You will be asked to supply updated information for inclusion in your file. There is no charge to reactivate a file. File deactivation affects only reference letters. Transcripts and other academic material will not be affected by deactivation of reference letter files.

To start a new file, any U-M graduate, or a current student with at least 12 credits, should request the necessary informatin from the RLC. Each year 3,000 new files are incorporated into the system. Last year, the RLC assisted fileholders with active files by accepting 12,000 new letters into their files and mailing over 30,000 reference letter packages to graduate and professional schools and employment settings across the country.

Send information or direct questions about your file to: Reference Letter Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, 515 E. Jefferson St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1316. Phone (313) 764-7459; fax (313) 763-4917; e-mail cp&p@umich.edu.