TBA (last known deadline was April 20, 2012)
The Committee on Honorary Degrees is eager to receive your nominations of worthy candidates for honorary degrees. The committee especially solicits your nominations of meritorious women and minority candidates. Please refer to the document Standards and Procedures for Honorary Degrees for specific information concerning conditions of eligibility and the procedures for submitting a nomination. Submission of a nomination does not ensure its successful outcome. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that potential candidates NOT be informed that a nomination is under consideration. Strict confidentiality of a nomination protects the nominating unit and the university from a nominee's disappointment should a candidacy not advance. Academic units wishing to nominate a candidate should submit a preliminary nomination dossier to the committee no later than Friday, 20 April 2012. This preliminary dossier should consist of (1) a one- to two-page letter documenting the nominee's extraordinary contributions to a field or profession, and to society, and (2) the nominee's curriculum vitae, or in its absence, information about the nominee ordinarily presented in a curriculum vitae. Please submit 30 copies of the preliminary dossier to 133 Bascom Hall. See program information for more details.