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December 2024<\/dt>\n
\n

Thaddeus Seymour, Jr.<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

Kenneth D. Robinson<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

August 2024<\/dt>\n
\n

Harris Rosen<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

November 2021<\/dt>\n
\n

Darin Edwards PhD<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 2021<\/dt>\n
\n

Abraham Pizam<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Commercial Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 2019<\/dt>\n
\n

Daniel C. Holsenbeck<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 2019<\/dt>\n
\n

Judith M. Duda<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 2018<\/dt>\n
\n

Jeb Bush<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

Buddy Dyer<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

Martha Halstead Hitt<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

James F. Heekin<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

Teresa Jacobs<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

Thomas G. Kuntz<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

Carolyn Roberts<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 2017<\/dt>\n
\n

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

Anthony J. Nicholson<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

April 2017<\/dt>\n
Mohammad bin Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/dd>\n
August 2016<\/dt>\n
Alan Eustace<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Business<\/dd>\n
May 2016<\/dt>\n
\n

Charles Gray<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

John Skipper<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 2014<\/dt>\n
\n

Alan Ginsburg<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

Richard Walsh<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Commercial Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

August 2014<\/dt>\n
\n

Judith A. Albertson<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n

Phyllis A. Klock<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Commercial Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 2013<\/dt>\n
\n

William Jefferson Clinton<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n

Michael M. Crow<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 2012<\/dt>\n
\n

Sanford Shugart<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 2011<\/dt>\n
\n

James A. Hinson<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 2009<\/dt>\n
\n

Jerry S. Roth<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Commercial Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 2009<\/dt>\n
\n

Howard Lance<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 2008<\/dt>\n
\n

Robert Vander Weide<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Commence<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 2007<\/dt>\n
\n

Charles Hard Townes<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 2006<\/dt>\n
\n

Rita Bornstein<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

March 2006<\/dt>\n
\n

Anibel Acevedo Vila<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 2005<\/dt>\n
\n

Harriet Elam-Thomas<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 2004<\/dt>\n
\n

G. Vince Amico<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Science<\/p>\n

Lester Mandell<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Commercial Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 2002<\/dt>\n
\n

Robert E. Kahn<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

October 2002<\/dt>\n
\n

Albert Burnett<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Commercial Science<\/p>\n

Nancy Burnett<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Commercial Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 2002<\/dt>\n
\n

Richard M. DeVos, Sr.<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Commercial Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 2001<\/dt>\n
\n

James Bacchus<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Services<\/p>\n

Richard M. Karp<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Science<\/p>\n

Joseph F. Traub<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Science<\/p>\n

LeRoy T. Walker, Sr.<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Services<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 2000<\/dt>\n
\n

Lotfi Zadeh<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 1999<\/dt>\n
\n

Oscar Arias<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n

Reubin Askew<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

Desmond Tutu<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 1998<\/dt>\n
\n

Linda W. Chapin<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

August 1998<\/dt>\n
\n

Trevor Colbourn<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 1997<\/dt>\n
\n

Maxwell C. King<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Science<\/p>\n

Joe R. Lee<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Commercial Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 1996<\/dt>\n
\n

Richard A. Nunis<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

April 1996<\/dt>\n
\n

Nicolaas Bloembergen<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 1995<\/dt>\n
\n

Jesse Stone<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 1995<\/dt>\n
\n

Norman R. Augustine<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Engineering Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 1993<\/dt>\n
\n

Buell G. Duncan, Jr.<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Commercial Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 1992<\/dt>\n
\n

Robert Bryan<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 1991<\/dt>\n
\n

Roald Hoffman<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 1990<\/dt>\n
\n

Helen Harris Perlman<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n

Thaddeus Seymour<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 1989<\/dt>\n
\n

David Albertson<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n

Frank M. Hubbard<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

William S. Jenkins<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n

Charles N. Millican<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Laws<\/p>\n

James C. Robinson<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 1988<\/dt>\n
\n

Sven Caspersen<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Engineering Science<\/p>\n

John D. Holloway<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

Wolfgang-Detlef Petri<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Commercial Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

October 1988<\/dt>\n
\n

Elie Wiesel<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

March 1986<\/dt>\n
\n

Isaac Bashevis Singer<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

May 1985<\/dt>\n
\n

George J. Becker, Jr.<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

Jerry Collins<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

D. Robert Graham<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

Walter O. Lowrie<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Engineering Science<\/p>\n

William C. Schwartz<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Engineering Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 1984<\/dt>\n
\n

Allan E. Gotieb<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Laws<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

July 1983<\/dt>\n
\n

J.W. Hubler<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Engineering Science<\/p>\n

Charles Wadsworth<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 1982<\/dt>\n
\n

Joseph A. Boyd<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Engineering Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

July 1982<\/dt>\n
\n

Mary Jo Davis<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n

William E. Davis<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

April 1982<\/dt>\n
\n

Andrew Duda, Jr.<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Agricultural Service<\/p>\n

Ferdinand Duda<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Agricultural Service<\/p>\n

John Duda<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Agricultural Service<\/p>\n

Robert J. Whalen<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Engineering Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 1981<\/dt>\n
\n

Gene Burns<\/strong>
\nMaster of Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

June 1980<\/dt>\n
\n

Thelma Vivian Jackson Dudley<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humanities<\/p>\n

Howard Phillips<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

December 1979<\/dt>\n
\n

Joseph Daniel Duffey<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Humane Letters<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

July 1979<\/dt>\n
\n

Albert F. Hegenberger<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Engineering Science<\/p>\n

Lee R. Scherer<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Engineering Science<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

August 1978<\/dt>\n
\n

Richard F. Livingston<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Business Administration<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

August 1974<\/dt>\n
\n

Fred C. Clayton<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

March 1973<\/dt>\n
\n

Louis C. Murray<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Public Service<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

June 1970<\/dt>\n
\n

John W. Young<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Applied Sciences<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n

June 1970<\/dt>\n
\n

Kurt H. Debus<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Engineering Science<\/p>\n

William H. Dial<\/strong>
\nDoctor of Commercial Sciences<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 2024 Thaddeus Seymour, Jr. Doctor of Public Service Kenneth D. Robinson Doctor of Public Service August 2024 Harris Rosen Doctor of Public Service November 2021 Darin Edwards PhD Doctor of Public Service May 2021 Abraham Pizam Doctor of Commercial Science December 2019 Daniel C. Holsenbeck Doctor of Humane Letters May 2019 Judith M. 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