Campus News

Make Honorary Doctorate Nominations During October

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 3, 2013) ― The University Joint Committee on Honorary Degrees is accepting nominations for honorary doctoral degrees to be awarded at the University Commencement exercises in May 2014.  Nominations may be made by faculty, students, staff, and friends of the University of Kentucky. The committee will follow the criteria, principles, and guidelines approved by the University Senate and Board of Trustees. 

For information on criteria and the nomination process, as well as the list of previous recipients, please visit the Graduate School’s Honorary Degrees website at http://www.research.uky.edu/gs/About/honorary_degrees.html.

New on the website this year is a link to submit a suggestion for a potential nominee. 

Nominators who are assembling a nomination dossier should upload the completed document on the website. The deadline for nominators to submit a completed nomination dossier is Nov. 1, 2013. 

Please direct any questions to Jeannine Blackwell (at jblack@email.uky.edu) or Morris Grubbs (at morris.grubbs@uky.edu) in the Graduate School.