Your student has applied for admission to the 2022 Sewanee Pre-College Field Studies Experience and has supplied us with your name and email address indicating that you will be writing a teacher recommendation.

The Sewanee Environmental Institute offers a two-week summer program for talented high school students, who are passionate about the outdoors and interested in advancing their knowledge and skills in the study of the environment. The program is led by faculty at the University of the South and utilizes its 13,000 acre campus atop the ecologically diverse Cumberland Plateau. 

In your recommendation, please briefly comment on the applicant’s interest in the environment and their strengths and weaknesses as a student and community member.  Also please address the applicant’s ability to contribute constructively to an outdoor education program and to the life of a residence hall. 

Upload your recommendation here in Word or PDF format as soon as possible.

To ensure that your letter of recommendation is correctly matched with your student's Conference application, please identify your student by providing the first name, last name and email address exactly as shown in the email we sent you with the subject line, Regarding the Sewanee Pre-College Field Studies Experience.

We look forward to reading your recommendation!