TO:         Baruch College Faculty and Staff

FROM:  David G. Dannenbring, Provost
               and Vice President for Academic Affairs

DATE:   October 14, 2004

RE:        Recommendations for Honorary Degree

I write to ask your help in identifying persons who might be candidates for an
Honorary Degree to be given at Baruch´s June 2005 commencement.

To assist you, following is a summary of the University’s criteria for honorary
degrees.  All persons suggested will be presented for consideration to the College’s
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, to
the Honorary Degree Committee, c/o Carmen Vásquez, D-0710, by November 15,
2004.

You may also send this information to Ms. Vásquez via email at
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Thank you.


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Outline of CUNY Criteria for Honorary Degrees

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, and to the principles for which the
institutions stand 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 that have been provided for the recognition of 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 at 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. Persons who have made major contributions to furthering principles which are at
the center of the University’s 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 terms of office.