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Honorary Doctoral Degrees Committee

 

Functions:

  1. Administers the process by which nominations for honorary degrees are made and reviewed.

  2. Receives nominations for honorary degrees from any member of the university community.

  3. Reviews and investigates nominations.

  4. Recommends approved candidates to the Faculty Senate Steering Committee and to the President.

  5. With approval from President and Faculty Senate Steering Committee, recommends nominees to Board of Regents.

Composition and Tenure:

  1. Twelve faculty members, no more than one member from a college, with three-year terms. Six members, including chair, appointed by the President (F-P); six members appointed by the Faculty Senate Steering Committee (F-FS).

  2. Provost; Chair, Faculty Senate; Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School. (X)

Chair is appointed by and responsible to the President.

 

Committee Membership:

Lamb, Brian - Committee Chair - Civil and Environmental Engineering
Committee Term End:  2009

Bates, Robert - Office of the Provost
Ex-Officio

Cofer, William (F-FS) - Civil and Environmental Engineering
Committee Term End: 2009

Edwards, Gerald (F-FS) - School of Biological Sciences
Committee Term End: 2008

Goodstein, Jerry (F-P) - WSU Vancouver
Committee Term End: 2008

Grimes, Howard - Vice President for Research and Dean,Graduate School
Ex-Officio

Haberman, Mel (F-FS) - College of Nursing
Committee Term End: 2008

McNeil, Brian - Education Leadership and Counseling Psychology
Committee Term End:  2010

Pinkleton, Bruce (F-FS) - Communications
Committee Term End: 2009

Rogers, Jack - Plant Pathology
Committee Term End:  2010

Struckmeyer, Ken - Horticulture and LA
Ex-Officio Faculty Senate Term End: 2008

Download a pdf copy of the Honorary Degree Nomination Form

See a list of Honorary Degrees Granted

Honorary Degree Policies and Procedures

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