To Whom It May Concern,
I am pleased to write a letter of reference for Dr. Jorge (George) Monray a teaching at UAB International Master in Business Management at AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA (UAB). Dr. Jorge Monray currently teaches a seminar called Emerging Markets at the master Degree at UAB in which I used to be the Director.
Dr. Monray has a long and varied teaching and research career and I feel so fortunate to have acquired him on my staff again this year. In the fourteen years that I have known Dr. Jorge Monray I have been most impressed by his dedication to students and the high-quality teaching skills he brings to his position.
In all of my observations of Dr. Jorge Monray, he has always demonstrated exceptional teaching skills regardless of his class’s age group or diversity of learning levels. Dr. Monray always ensures that his students experience success by challenging their abilities in order to encourage as much growth and development as possible. His students are always treated with great dignity and respect and, as a result, he has an excellent rapport with them. Dr. Monray also has a very good working relationship with the rest of the peers in the program.
Dr. Monray brings a number of special talents to his role as a professor; he is a gifted communicator and he provides excellent lessons to his class, producing a great final output.
While he was with me at UAB for a long time, he has already contributed to the department in significant ways, bringing the most updated global economic data to his courses and publishing at renowned international journals as The International Journal of Competitiveness or the International Journal of Trade and Global Markets among others.
He is well-liked and appreciated by staff, students and management. He has always made himself available to staff members as a mentor and a guide in areas in which he has a 20 year expertise.
I was delighted to hear that Dr. Monray is applying for this position at your school. As well as being a dedicated, caring, skilled professor, I believe he possesses many of the qualities that will make him a very successful addition to your school community.
Though it is with a heavy heart that I see his go, I highly recommend his for the position. If you require further information, please feel free to contact me.
Yours truly,
Dr. Gabriel Izard
To Whom It May Concern:
It is my pleasure to introduce to you, Dr. Jorge (George) Monray, a highly valued teaching member at UAB and other institutions during many years. Dr. Monray is, in my opinion, a truly gifted educator. He quickly develops a good rapport with his students, establishes solid routines, and employs consistent and fair practices in his classroom.
Dr. Monray worked closely with me in developing high performance executive programs and classes for Postgraduate and Undergraduate students at UAB a few years ago. Students in his classes responded very well to his super-engaging approach to education and genuine interest in them. Under George’s guidance and encouragement, students consistently realized measurable gains.
As a peer Dr. Monray was pleasant and cooperative. He has a delightful sense of humor and contributed much to the staff, both professionally and socially.
It has been my pleasure to have worked with Dr. Monray as he is hardworking, well-organized, committed senior professor teacher who has given much its students. He enjoys the respect of his fellow professors and several school administrations.
I am pleased to recommend him without reservation, for any position requiring hard work, initiative, loyalty, and dedication. Please contact me if you need any further information.
Sincerely
Isabel Martinez Cosentino
To the hiring committee at the Economics department
If I were to define what professionalism at its best looks like, I would recall Dr Jorge Monray´s performance. I have had the pleasure of being the director of the academic center where Dr Monray taught for 9 years, therefore I can speak with aplomb.
Dr Jorge Monray is a conscientious, hardworking and amiable professor who´s passionate in what he does in more ways that I can mention. His classes of international trade were regularly evaluated by our students among the top 3 courses in terms of student engagement, rigor, and applicability. This is no small feat as many of our undergraduate students struggled with how much was expected of them at Arcadia University, the center I oversaw for thirteen years.
I used to say to the faculty that professionalism meant not only showing up on time, delivering good lessons and being helpful to the students (aside from knowing about their subject- that is a given). True professionalism, at least the way I conceive it as a former professor myself and language section director at Loyola University Chicago, where I´d taught– is best seen in how a faculty member performs those cumbersome, unpleasant, routinary tasks. The star of this type of unexciting work is the grade appeal. We would often have students underperformingbecause of too much partying (it was Barcelona, after all), or for being just generally unfocused. A grade appeal was something we all disliked: it entailed my arbitering the appeal, gathering evidence, and then forming a tribunal with my peers in Philadelphia. Crucial to this was having accurate records of attendance, performance, grades in pop quizzes, etc. When we had the first grade appeal by one of Dr Monray´s student, he showed just what a superb professional he is. He contested vigorously that the student´s appeal was unfounded and his incontestable evidence (attendance and the rest of parameters aforementioned) rendered the case undisputable. This saved all involved a great deal of time and back-and-forth. It also set the bar as to what kind of professor his peers should aim to become.
I can say that Dr Monray and I established a friendly working relationship, I can say he felt always greatly appreciated at our center and also by his students. His professional demeanor, his research record (with a great book on B2B business which I read despite being a linguist) and his knowledge of the subject area made him a stellar and valued professor.
As should be unambiguously inferred from this letter, I hold Dr Monray in the highest esteem possible. I firmly believe that any department that hires him will be fortunate to have among its faculty an energetic, driven, and knowledgeable professor- professional to the bone.
I will be delighted to provide any further reference for Dr Monray
Dr. Jaume Gelabert