Spring 2022 Update 
    
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Spring 2022 Update [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Recent Honorary Degree Recipients


Commencement, May 2004

HOWARD DODSON
Doctor of Humane Letters

CHIEF JUDGE JUDITH S. KAYE
Doctor of Laws

THOMAS DIXON LOVELY
Doctor of Laws

Commencement, May 2005

AMELIA HAGEDORN
Doctor of Humane Letters

ROBERT B. WILLUMSTAD
Doctor of Laws

Commencement, May 2006

SENATOR HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
Doctor of Laws

LILO J. LEEDS
Doctor of Humane Letters

BRIAN D. McAULEY
Doctor of Laws

Commencement, May 2007

CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS
Doctor of Laws

JUDITH SUE BORTEN
Doctor of Humane Letters

WILLIAM H. BORTEN
Doctor of Humane Letters

CECIL K. WATKINS
Doctor of Laws

DONNA ORENDER
Doctor of Laws

Commencement, May 2008

LON GORMAN
Doctor of Laws

ADELE C. SMITHERS
Doctor of Humane Letters

PAUL TAYLOR
Doctor of Arts

Commencement, May 2009

SUZY DALTON SONENBERG
Doctor of Humane Letters

AUDREY RONNING TOPPING
Doctor of Arts

SEYMOUR TOPPING
Doctor of Humane Letters

Commencement, May 2010

CAROL A. AMMON
Doctor of Laws

BETTY L. FOREST
Doctor of Humane Letters

LYNN NOTTAGE
Doctor of Humane Letters

Commencement, May 2011

RUTH C. BALKIN
Doctor of Laws

EDWIDGE DANTICAT
Doctor of Humane Letters

SUZANNE FARRELL
Doctor of Fine Arts

Commencement, May 2012

JAMAICA KINCAID
Doctor of Humane Letters

LEONARD RIGGIO
Doctor of Laws

CARMEN M. ORTIZ
Doctor of Laws

Commencement, May 2013

DOREEN DOWNS MILLER
Doctor of Humane Letters

BERT N. MILLER
Doctor of Laws

CARLTON DOUGLAS RIDENHOUR
Doctor of Arts

BURT YOUNG
Doctor of Fine Arts

Commencement, May 2014

JEH CHARLES JOHNSON
Doctor of Laws

FABIOLA MILFORD
Doctor of Humane Letters

EDWARD VILLELLA
Doctor of Arts

Commencement, May 2015

VARTAN GREGORIAN
Doctor of Humane Letters

MARK HARRIS
Doctor of Humane Letters

CORA WEISS
Doctor of Laws

Commencement, May 2016

JACQUELINE WOODSON
Doctor of Letters

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMANN
Doctor of Laws

Commencement, May 2017

ALAN C. TRAUTWIG
Doctor of Humane Letters

Commencement, May 2019

KEVIN MCKENZIE
Doctor of Fine Arts

PAT SCHISSEL
Doctor of Humane Letters