Honorary Degrees Committee
Call for Nominations
The Honorary Degrees Committee of the Council of Rhode Island College invites your nominations for honorary degrees to be awarded at the college’s graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremonies and at other times as appropriate.
When considering possible candidates, please bear in mind that the college seeks to recognize individuals for their record of scholarship, leadership, community and public service, accomplishments in professional areas, service to the college, or any combination of these attributes. The college endeavors to include among its honorees the widest possible range of diversity reflective of its values.
Please document any nomination you make with as much information as possible, but please limit such documentation to not more than five pages. Experience has shown that good (but not excessive) documentation makes a nomination more likely to be successful.
Because this is a confidential process, we ask that information regarding a nomination not be shared with the nominee or with any individual other than Honorary Degrees Committee members. While the receipt of all nominations will be acknowledged, the Committee is not at liberty to share its deliberations with anyone at any point in the process.
Nominators of successful candidates will serve as the main contact with the honoree prior to and during their visit to campus and will assist in writing the citation to be presented to the honoree at the ceremony.
Electronic submission by e-mail is preferred. For electronic submissions, please forward ONE copy of your nomination and any accompanying materials to asnyder@ric.edu. If submitting a nomination by hard copy, please forward one original and SIX copies of your nomination and any accompanying materials to Andrew Snyder, Chair, Honorary Degrees Committee, Adams Library. All nominations must be received no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, September 21, 2012.
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