Your application must include a letter of support from your Special Committee chair. That letter should address:
1) the importance of the proposed summer language study prior to the Fall term for the student's research project,
2) why it is not possible for this instruction to be undertaken at Cornell during the regular academic year,
3) the advantages of the program selected, and
4) what matching funds are being provided by the faculty, department, or other source.
Please have your chair email a letter of support to grad_funding@cornell.edu before the deadline.