TO:  Deans, Department Chairs and Coordinators

FROM: David Dannenbring
  Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

RE:  Nominations for Honorary Degrees

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I write to ask your help in identifying persons who might be candidates
for an honorary degree to be given at BaruchÕs 2003 Commencement.
To assist you, I am adding to this message the text of the UniversityÕs
Criteria and Procedures for Honorary Degrees.  Please share this
information with your colleagues.  All persons suggested will be
presented for consideration to the CollegeÕs Committee on Honorary
Degrees.

We are also asking for suggestions of persons to deliver the
Commencement Address.  The person need not be eligible for an
honorary degree.

Please send your recommendations for honorary degree recipients
and/or commencement speakers, along with a short biographical
sketch of each person by November 7, 2002 to the ProvostÕs Office.

Thanks for your help.

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City University of New York
Criteria and Procedures for Committee on Honorary Degrees

Criteria

Honorary Degrees are intended to serve as a means by which the
University can recognize the achievements of persons who have
made significant contributions to the progress of the University, or its
colleges, to the principles the institutions stand for or to their
academic or professional disciplines.  It is anticipated that honorary
degrees will be proposed only for persons who clearly merit such
consideration.  The Chancellor and the Presidents should first
consider awarding the medals of merit, which have been provided for
recognizing service and achievement.  In general, candidates for
Honorary Degrees should fall in one or more of the following
categories.

1. Persons of national or international reputation in an academic
disciple that holds a significant place in the curriculum of the awarding
college.

2. Persons who have made significant contributions in either thought
or action to American Higher Education or in a professional field
closely related to an academic interest of the University or the
awarding college.

3. Persons who have made significant contributions over a sustained
period of time to the development of major programs at the University
or one of its colleges.

4. Persons who have given long and distinguished service to the
University or one of its colleges but who were not in its employ.

5. Person who have made major contributions to furthering principles
which are at the center of the UniversityÕs purpose and mission.

For purposes of considering candidates for Honorary Degrees elected
officials representing the State or City of New York shall not be eligible
for consideration during their term of office.

Procedures

Prior  to submitting the names of potential honorary degree
candidates to the faculty or the College Council for approval the
President should forward the names of the candidates to the
Chancellor.  This submission should include a brief description of
those activities and/or achievements for which the degree is
proposed.

The Chancellor will make his own comments on the candidates and
submit them to the Board in Executive Session.  At this point members
of the Board are expected to express any serious reservations, they
might have regarding any of the candidates.

The Chancellor will convey to the President any reservations he and/or
members of the Board may have to the candidates who have been
proposed.  Taking into account these comments the President may
submit candidates for faculty approval and subsequent approval by
the Councils of Presidents.

The informal list of candidates for degrees at June commencements
should be submitted to the Chancellor by March 10.  Proposed
candidates who are to receive degrees at special commencements or
convocations should be submitted to the Chancellor ten weeks prior
to the date of the event.

No candidate should be informed of the CollegeÕs intention to
propose an honorary degree until the President has received the
informal comments of the Chancellor and the Board as to their
acceptability under the criteria described above.