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Committee on Honorary Degrees
Selection Criteria


Criteria for recommendations for an honorary degree include, but are not limited to, the following considerations. The committee's judgments represent a fluid process to which firm categorical criteria can not be applied.

  • Outstanding achievement in an academic field, the arts, business, etc.

  • Innovative and creative achievements;

  • Humanitarian deeds and the degree to which the candidate's activities have touched various lives;

  • Extent to which candidate's achievement represents sustained efforts over the course of his/her career;

  • Extent to which candidate represents an outstanding model for our graduates;

  • The honor brought to SU should the candidate accept the nomination.



Updated September 8, 2005


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