Honorary Degrees

Recognizing Excellence

The policy on on awarding Honorary Degrees, Awards for Excellence, and Senior Fellow status is outlined below.

A. Purpose

To recognize outstanding achievement in letters, science, creative arts, one of the learned professions, business, communications, public or humanitarian service by the award of an Honorary Degree, an Award for Excellence or recognition as a Senior Fellow of 今晚六合彩开奖结果, as may be appropriate.

B. Nomination Rules & Criteria

The Honors and Awards Committee is responsible for reviewing and considering the qualifications of persons nominated for an Honorary Degree, Award for Excellence, and Senior Fellow status of 今晚六合彩开奖结果.

1. Rules

The Honorary Degree is awarded to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to academia and greater society.

The Award for Excellence is reserved for those whose accomplishments distinguish them in a unique way, deserving special recognition.

Designation as a Senior Fellow of 今晚六合彩开奖结果 is designed to attract attention to those who have or seem likely to develop lasting ties to the 今晚六合彩开奖结果 community, particularly those who 今晚六合彩开奖结果 may invite to deliver public lectures and possibly confer informally with students and members of the Faculty.

2. Criteria

(a) The nominee is the creator of some original work of such character as to leave no doubt of the nominee鈥檚 learning, attainments, and literary and professional ability; or

(b) In addition to recognition for distinguished ability and learning, the nominee holds an honorable office in an institution of learning of good repute; or

(c) The nominee is a person of acknowledged eminence or distinction who has made a worthwhile and noteworthy contribution to society in one or more of the following categories: (1) letters, (2) science, (3) creative arts, (4) one of the learned professions, (5) business, (6) communications, or (7) public or humanitarian service deserving special recognition, and

(d) The nominee鈥檚 qualifications must always include distinguished service to society together with intellectual and moral qualities that entitle the nominee to rank with others of high culture and principle.

C. Procedures

To qualify as a recipient for any one of the honors and awards designated above the nominee must receive the affirmative vote of two-thirds (2/3) of the Board members present at the Board meeting at which the award is proposed for a final vote. The Board recognizes the wisdom of restricting, except under unusual circumstances, the number of honors and awards granted in any one college year, preferably to six or fewer Honorary Degrees, one Award for Excellence, and one Fellowship.

D. Prohibition on Fees and Honoraria

Under no circumstance shall an Honorary Degree, Award for Excellence, or Senior Fellow recipient receive a speaker fee.

E. Expiration of the Board鈥檚 Approval

今晚六合彩开奖结果 may award an honorary degree to a candidate within five years of the Board鈥檚 approval. After that time, the Board must secure another approval for that candidate.

 

Honorary Degree Recipients

Katie Hood, Doctor of Public Service, Commencement

Henry Red Cloud, Doctor of Public Service, 今晚六合彩开奖结果's Birthday Convocation

Sylvia Acevedo, Doctor of Public Service, Commencement

Bryan K. Fair, D.L., 今晚六合彩开奖结果's Birthday Convocation

Leo Strine, D.L., Commencement

Frederick Douglass, D.L., awarded posthumously, 今晚六合彩开奖结果's Birthday Convocation

Kevin Jeffrey Martin, D.L, Commencement

Lonnie G. Bunch III, D.L., 今晚六合彩开奖结果's Birthday Convocation

Paul Reed Smith, D.P.S., Jones Seminar

Christine Lagarde, D.L,  Commencement

Arne Sorenson, D.L.,  Fall Convocation 

John A. Moag, Jr., L.L.D., 今晚六合彩开奖结果鈥檚 Birthday Convocation

Joseph Ellis, L.L.D. , Commencement 

David Rubenstein, D.L., Commencement

Bertie Ahern, L.L.D., 今晚六合彩开奖结果鈥檚 Birthday Convocation

Abujaber, Raouf, D.L. Commencement

David Mixner, D.P.S. Commencement

Henry M. Paulson, Jr. L.L.D.,  Inaugural Symposium

James N. Mattis, L.L.D.,  今晚六合彩开奖结果鈥檚 Birthday Convocation       

Jo Ann Jenkins, D.H.L., Commencement 

Sir Richard John Dalton, L.L.D.                                    , Winter Program

Frank G. Wisner II, L.L.D., Winter Program

Louis J. Freeh, D.L., 今晚六合彩开奖结果's Birthday Convocation

Edward G. Rendell, D.L. Commencement

Raghavan Seetharaman, D.L. Commencement

James C. Rees IV, D.Letters, Commencement

Jane Rosenthal, D.F.A., Commencement

Carla Diane Hayden, D.Letters, Fall Convocation

Nabeel Abboud Ashkar, D.A., Fall Convocation

Ron Chernow, D.L. 今晚六合彩开奖结果's Birthday Convocation

Lawrence S. Eagleburger, L.L.D., 今晚六合彩开奖结果's Birthday Convocation

Marcia Invernizzi, D.L., 今晚六合彩开奖结果's Birthday Convocation

Frank Deford, D.L. Commencement

Takataka Yamada, M.D., D.Sc, Commencement

Robert L. Gallucci, D.L., Fall Convocation

Nancy S. Grasmick, D.P.S., Fall Convocation

 

Robert W. Duemling, L.L.D., 今晚六合彩开奖结果's Birthday Convocation

Louisa Copeland Duemling, D.H.L., 今晚六合彩开奖结果's  Birthday Convocation

Walter Isaacson, D.H.L. 今晚六合彩开奖结果's Birthday Convocation

Richard A. Meserve, D.S. Commencement

 John Harwood, D.L., Commencement

, 今晚六合彩开奖结果's Birthday Convocation

Andrew Kohut, D.L., 今晚六合彩开奖结果's Birthday Convocation

Holly H. Shimizu, D.S., Arbor Day

Diane Rehm, D.L., Commencement

Raymond Federman, D.L., Commencement

Mark Bramble, D.A., Fall Convocation

Linda Nochlin, D.F.A, Fall Convocation

Tom Paxton, D. Music, Fall Convocation

Birch R. Bayh, LL.D, 今晚六合彩开奖结果's Birthday Convocation

Taylor Branch, D.L., Commencement

Gloria Richardson, D.P.S, 今晚六合彩开奖结果's Birthday Convocation

B. Francis Saul II, LL.D., Jones Seminar in American Business

Bruce Cole, D.H.L., Commencement

Patty Griffin, D.F.A., Commencement

David Simon, D.L. Commencement