Honorary Degree Recipients
Since 1854, the college has conferred nearly 400 honorary degrees. Here we honor our past recipients dating back to 1926.
| Honoree | Year Confirmed | Honorary Degree |
|---|---|---|
| Isaac O Winslow | '26 | Doctor of Education |
| Allison Tuttle | '26 | Doctor of Education |
| Marcus White | '26 | Doctor of Education |
| Payson Smith | '26 | Doctor of Education |
| Sarah L Arnold | '27 | Doctor of Education |
| Herbert W Lull | '27 | Doctor of Education |
| Howard Edwards | '27 | Doctor of Letters |
| Erik A Anderson | '28 | Doctor of Education |
| Arthur C Boyden | '28 | Doctor of Education |
| Wallace E Mason | '28 | Doctor of Education |
| William S Steere | '28 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Joseph P Pitman | '29 | Doctor of Education |
| Cornelius E Broome | '30 | Doctor of Letters |
| Walter E Russell | '31 | Doctor of Education |
| Frank H Beede | '31 | Doctor of Education |
| Stanley H Holmes | '31 | Doctor of Education |
| Clara E Craig | '32 | Doctor of Education |
| Raymond G Bressler | '32 | Doctor of Education |
| Walter H Butterfield | '32 | Doctor of Music |
| Charles S Thomas | '32 | Doctor of Letters |
| Clarence H Manchester | '33 | Doctor of Education |
| Alexander J Stoddard | '33 | Doctor of Education |
| Willard H Bacon | '34 | Doctor of Education |
| Robert E Quinn | '38 | Doctor of Education |
| Grover C Bowman | '41 | Doctor of Education |
| Charles F Towne | '41 | Doctor of Education |
| Frank Hill | '42 | Doctor of Education |
| J. Howard McGrath | '43 | Doctor of Education |
| Robert M Brown | '43 | Doctor of Education |
| Royal B Farnum | '44 | Doctor of Education |
| John J Kenny | '44 | Doctor of Education |
| Patrick J Sullivan | '45 | Doctor of Education |
| John J Kelly | '46 | Doctor of Education |
| Ruth A Haas | '47 | Doctor of Education |
| Martin F O'Connor | '47 | Doctor of Education |
| Harry L Jacobs | '47 | Doctor of Education |
| Harold Gibbs | '47 | Doctor of Education |
| Sen. John Pastore | '48 | Doctor of Education |
| Sr. Mary Landregan | '49 | Doctor of Education |
| James Dugan | '49 | Doctor of Education |
| Dr. Rose B Browne | '50 | Doctor of Education |
| Abram L Sachar | '50 | Doctor of Education |
| Rabbi Morris Schussheim | '51 | Doctor of Education |
| Rev. John Lyte | '51 | Doctor of Education |
| Dennis J Roberts | '51 | Doctor of Education |
| Rev. Richard Morton | '52 | Doctor of Education |
| Lucille Leonard | '53 | Doctor of Education |
| Dr. Sophia B Kent | '54 | Doctor of Education |
| Dr. Sara L Kerr | '54 | Doctor of Education |
| Dr. Adelaide Patterson | '54 | Doctor of Education |
| Ida C Silverman | '54 | Doctor of Education |
| Carl R Woodward | '54 | Doctor of Education |
| Harold R Medina | '54 | Doctor of Education |
| Rev. Robert Slavin | '55 | Doctor of Education |
| Rev. Reinhold Link | '55 | Doctor of Education |
| Henry S Commager | '55 | Doctor of Education |
| Elmer Smith | '55 | Doctor of Education |
| Wilma A Miller | '56 | Doctor of Education |
| Elizabeth G Vining | '56 | Doctor of Education |
| J. Hebert Ward | '56 | Doctor of Education |
| William T Hastings | '56 | Doctor of Education |
| Florence Murray | '56 | Doctor of Education |
| Leslie Hill | '56 | Doctor of Education |
| Edward C Kemble | '57 | Doctor of Education |
| Mary I Hall | '57 | Doctor of Education |
| Marie M Gearan | '57 | Doctor of Education |
| Dora V Smith | '57 | Doctor of Education |
| Harold W Browning | '57 | Doctor of Education |
| Louise Tharp | '57 | Doctor of Education |
| Dr. Helen Cooper | '58 | Doctor of Education |
| Roy O Billett | '58 | Doctor of Education |
| Gaganvihari Mehta | '58 | Doctor of Education |
| Lawrence Derthick | '58 | Doctor of Education |
| Norman Cousins | '58 | Doctor of Letters |
| Barnaby C Keeney | '59 | Doctor of Education |
| Alexander M Burgess | '59 | Doctor of Education |
| Alice M Waddington | '59 | Doctor of Education |
| Louis M Lyons | '59 | Doctor of Education |
| John R Frazier | '59 | Doctor of Education |
| Bruce R Lindsay | '59 | Doctor of Education |
| Marion S Cole | '59 | Doctor of Education |
| Charles W Hunt | '59 | Doctor of Education |
| David Reisman | '59 | Doctor of Education |
| Theodore Brameld | '59 | Doctor of Education |
| J. Harold Williams | '59 | Doctor of Education |
| Marion Shirley Cole | '59 | Doctor of Education |
| Robert Bruce Lindsay | '59 | Doctor of Education |
| Mother M. Hilda Miley | '60 | Doctor of Education |
| James P Adams | '60 | Doctor of Education |
| Winfield T Scott | '60 | Doctor of Education |
| James W Wilson | '60 | Doctor of Education |
| James Hanley | '60 | Doctor of Education |
| Theodore Francis Green | '60 | Doctor of Education |
| Msgr. Arthur Geoghegan | '61 | Doctor of Education |
| Herbert D Welte | '61 | Doctor of Education |
| William G Vinal | '61 | Doctor of Education |
| Marion Leighton-Jenks | '61 | Doctor of Education |
| Mario Brosio | '61 | Doctor of Education |
| Father Vincent Dore | '62 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Clement C Maxwell | '62 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| John E Fogarty | '62 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| George F Frost | '62 | Doctor of Laws |
| Francis H Horn | '62 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Vera L Milliken | '62 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| James R Killian | '62 | Doctor of Education |
| Christopher T DelSesto | '62 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Henry Margenau | '62 | Doctor of Laws |
| Dr. M. Corinne Barden Adams | '63 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Lawrence J Hogan | '63 | Doctor of Laws |
| Timothy M Stinnett | '63 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Lloyd P Young | '63 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Howard W Ferrin | '63 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Edward Winsor | '63 | Doctor of Laws |
| Philip J Holton Jr. | '64 | Doctor of Laws |
| Adm. William C Mott | '64 | Doctor of Laws |
| Dr. Marie Gilbride | '64 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Rev. Robert Quinn | '64 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| James B Hedges | '64 | Doctor of Laws |
| Lucius H Pitts | '64 | Doctor of Laws |
| Walter H Reynolds | '64 | Doctor of Laws |
| Anthony J Celebrezze | '64 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| John N Brown | '64 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Vernon R Alden | '64 | Doctor of Laws |
| Eugene Gardner Jacobs | '64 | Doctor of Laws |
| Leallyn Clapp | '64 | Doctor of Laws |
| Otto Neugebauer | '64 | Doctor of Laws |
| Rosemary Pierrel Sorrentino | '64 | Doctor of Laws |
| Dr. Mona G Baker | '65 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Dr. Catherine M Casserly | '65 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Kenneth B Keating | '65 | Doctor of Laws |
| Michael F Walsh | '65 | Doctor of Laws |
| Alexander Peloquin | '65 | Doctor of Laws |
| Samuel Van Valkenburg | '65 | Doctor of Laws |
| Harold Benjamin | '65 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| James P Dixon Jr. | '66 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Frederick A Meier | '66 | Doctor of Laws |
| Owen B Kiernan | '66 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Bradford F Swan | '66 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Aime J Forand | '66 | Doctor of Laws |
| John K Galbraith | '66 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Margaret Reese Langdon | '66 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Maribelle Cormack | '66 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Michael A Gammino Jr. | '67 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Sen. Claborne Pell | '67 | Doctor of Laws |
| Mary E Kingley | '67 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| John H Chafee | '67 | Doctor of Laws |
| John H Franklin | '67 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Andrew W Cordier | '67 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| John P Cronin '76 | '68 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Dr. Eleanor C McPhillips | '68 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Thomas H Roberts | '68 | Doctor of Laws |
| David H Susskind | '68 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Adolph T Schmidt | '68 | Doctor of Laws |
| George Wright Kelsey | '68 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Paul B Weisz | '69 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Robert C Wood | '69 | Doctor of Laws |
| Robert J Keeshan | '69 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Francis K Madeira | '69 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Arthur M Schlesinger | '69 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Harriet V Zurlinden | '69 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Rev. William Haas | '70 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| William C Gaige | '70 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Carl T Rowan | '70 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Carl Gross | '70 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Helen MacPherson | '70 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Dr. William F Flanagan | '71 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Dr. Edward P Travers | '71 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Dr. Mary T Thorp | '71 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Rev. Robert Drinan | '71 | Doctor of Laws |
| Frank Licht | '71 | Doctor of Laws |
| James Williams | '71 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Dr. Manuel L da Silva | '72 | Doctor of Health |
| John S Higgins | '72 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| E L Amabel North | '72 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Harold Taylor | '72 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Homer Babbidge | '72 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Hon. Joseph Weisberger | '73 | Doctor of Laws |
| Marion B Strauss | '73 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| George K Anderson | '73 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Lila M Sapinsley | '73 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Charles N Fortes | '73 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Sidney P Marland | '73 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Harvey G Cox Jr. | '74 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Andrew J Bell Jr. | '74 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Josephine A Dolan | '74 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Joseph F MacAndrew | '74 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Daniel J Boorstin | '74 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| James A Houston | '75 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Antoinette F Downing | '75 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Joseph H Gaudet | '75 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Belmira Nunes Lopes | '75 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Catherine Strown Robinson | '75 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Martha Peterson | '75 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Arlan R Coolidge | '76 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Carl Bridenbaugh | '76 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Gertrude Himmelfarb | '76 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Elmaina Lewis | '76 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Everett I Mendelsohn | '77 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Alfred L Hawkes | '77 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Adrian Hall | '77 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Alan Simpson | '77 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Dr. Joseph F Kauffman | '78 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Hon. J. Joseph Garrahy | '78 | Doctor of Laws |
| Virginia B Smith | '78 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Eleanor F Slater | '78 | Doctor of Laws |
| Joseph G Lecount | '78 | Doctor of Laws |
| William H McNeill | '78 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Ralph E Miller Jr. '63 | '79 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Michael S Van Leesten '65 | '79 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dr. Charles Willard | '79 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Prof. Ernest Allison | '79 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Aaron H Roitman | '79 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Cathy Guisewite | '79 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Julian Jaynes | '79 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Dorothy Burgess | '79 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Martha B Ballinger | '80 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Robert P Straetz | '80 | Doctor of Business Administration |
| Edward R Martin | '80 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Bernice R Sandler | '80 | Doctor of Laws |
| Hugh Leonard | '80 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Remi-Nelson Gilbert | '80 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Madeline Giguere | '80 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Jack Lynch | '80 | Doctor of Laws |
| Albert Shanker | '80 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Robert Fournier | '80 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Albert Carlotti | '80 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Wilmer A Jennings | '81 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Wilbur J Cohen | '81 | Doctor of Laws |
| Muriel Port Stevens | '81 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Irwin T Sanders | '81 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Albert T Pimentel | '81 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Charlayne Hunter-Gault | '81 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Ronald E Stenning | '82 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Marion F Simon | '82 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Bernard G Mondor | '82 | Doctor of Public Service |
| James H Billington | '82 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| James L Fisher | '82 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Jose Marques | '82 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Aristides M Pereira '83 | '83 | Doctor of Laws |
| John C Murray | '83 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Joseph H Silverstein | '83 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Barbara L Nichols | '83 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Pauline M Hartington | '83 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Arnold T Hampson | '83 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Allan W Ostar | '83 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Arlene Croce | '83 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Dr. Charles E Shea Jr. | '84 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Clara B Hieronymous | '84 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Stephen D Hassenfeld | '84 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Gene I Maeroff | '84 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Galway Kinnell | '84 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Roman Vishniac | '84 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Leslie A Bettencourt '75 | '85 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Dr. Charles V Willie | '85 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Rev. Thomas Peterson | '85 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Joseph E Cannon | '85 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Albert T Klyberg | '85 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Francis W Campbell | '85 | Doctor of Business Administration |
| Pauline Koner | '85 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Arthur Zarrella | '85 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Hon. Alice Gibney '69 | '86 | Doctor of Laws |
| Dr. Mary Ann Quaranta | '86 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Bruce D Butterfield | '86 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Henry J Shelton | '86 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Clayton Taliaferro | '86 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| James Schevill | '86 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Alexander W Astin | '87 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Eileen Farrell | '87 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| David Macaulay | '87 | Doctor of Letters |
| John Noble Wilford | '87 | Doctor of Letters |
| David Elkind | '87 | Doctor of Science |
| Dr. Eleanor M McMahon | '88 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dr. William Oh | '88 | Doctor of Science |
| Sr. Rosemary Donley | '88 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Eugene M Lang | '88 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Maxwell Mays | '88 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Seymour Sarason | '88 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Reatha King | '88 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Robert Andreoli | '88 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dr. John O Pastore MD | '89 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Sherwood C Spring | '89 | Doctor of Science |
| Lauro F Cavazos | '89 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Ronald H Brown | '89 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Martin Haberman | '89 | Doctor of Education |
| Mark Patinkin | '89 | Doctor of Journalism |
| Richard Cumming | '89 | Doctor of Music |
| Wilma Pearl Mankiller | '89 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Anna J Harrison | '90 | Doctor of Science |
| Richard M Oster | '90 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Margaret T Burroughs | '90 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Gordon Parks | '90 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Dith Pran | '90 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Peggy Boyd Sharpe | '90 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dr. Henry J Nardone | '91 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dr. James P Comer | '91 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Dr. Christine Hennessey | '91 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Gilbert M Grosvenor | '91 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Don Bousquet | '91 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Iola Mabray | '91 | Doctor of Public Service |
| John C Quinn | '92 | Doctor of Public Service |
| George N Leighton | '92 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ned Rorem | '92 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| DIANA GOLDEN | '92 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Sen. Paolo Taviani | '93 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| John V DeGoes | '93 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| ROBERT DeBLOIS | '93 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Dr. Edmund B Gaither | '94 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Dr. Michael Reynolds | '94 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Dr. Steven Ansell | '94 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Lt Col Spann Watson | '94 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Bayla Keyes | '94 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Peter Zazofsky | '94 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Judith A Sweeney Lederman '72 | '95 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Sr. Carol McGovern | '95 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Eugene Lee | '95 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Willy Heeks | '95 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Harm DeBlij | '95 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Dr. Americo W Petrocelli | '96 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Diane E Santos | '96 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Irving R Levine | '96 | Doctor of Journalism |
| Michael Corrente | '96 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Robert Birmelin | '96 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Justin W Dart Jr. | '97 | Doctor of Laws |
| Dr. Lea Eliash | '97 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Joseph A Almagno | '97 | Doctor of Education |
| Armand LaMontagne | '98 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Paul Binder | '98 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Spalding Gray | '98 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| David A Capaldi '64 | '99 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Sen. Jack Reed | '99 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Alan Shawn Feinstein | '99 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Helen Forman | '99 | Doctor of Humanities |
| George Wein | '99 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Oskar Eustis | '99 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| B.J. Clanton | '99 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dr. Millard D Fuller | '00 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Dr. Edward J Liston | '00 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dr. Gordon M Ambach | '00 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Dr. Luther Blount | '00 | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| Dr. Barnaby Evans | '00 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Dr. Thomas F Banchoff | '01 | Doctor of Science |
| Dr. Thomas Sgouros | '01 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Stephen A Janger | '01 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Michael S Harper | '01 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| J. Lynn Singleton | '01 | Doctor of Business Administration |
| Dr. Lorna M Edmundson '64 | '02 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Viola Davis '88 | '02 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Dr. Carole M Harman | '02 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Thomas A Ohanian | '02 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Harry Kizirian | '02 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dr. James DiPrete | '03 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Martha E McSally | '03 | Doctor of Civil Law |
| Jeremiah S Jeremiah | '03 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sarah T Dowling | '03 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dr. Beatrice S Levin '42 | '04 | Doctor of Letters |
| Dr. Samuel A Worthington | '04 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Dr. Alan G Hassenfeld | '04 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dr. Elizabeth Streb | '04 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Elizabeth J Johnson | '04 | Doctor of Humanities |
| James Richard Langevin ’90 | '04 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Peter Boyer ’91 | '04 | Doctor of Music |
| Anthony Maione '75 | '05 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Dr. Billie Ann Burrill | '05 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Dr. Sherwin J Kapstein | '05 | Doctor of Education |
| Dr. Friedrich St. Florian | '05 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Dr. William Julius Wilson | '05 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Dr. Stanley M. Aronson | '06 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Dr. Raymond W Houghton | '06 | Doctor of Humanities |
| George S Lima | '06 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Diane Postoian '76 | '06 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Anne M Sliney '87 | '06 | Doctor of Science |
| Marian Wright Edelman | '06 | Doctor of Laws |
| Ronald W McLarty '69 | '07 | Doctor of Humanities |
| H. Philip West Jr. | '07 | Doctor of Laws |
| George Graboys | '07 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Margaret Wrenn Goodrum | '07 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Howard Fine '04 | '08 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Dr. Nicolas P Retsinas | '08 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dr. Constantine W Curris | '08 | Doctor of Laws |
| Dr. Bruce Sundlun | '08 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dr. John Nazarian '54 | '09 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Dr. Morris Nathanson | '09 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Mark Weiner | '09 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Hon. Gordon Fox '85 | '10 | Doctor of Laws |
| Sen. M. Teresa Paiva-Weed | '10 | Doctor of Laws |
| John J Palumbo | '10 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Frank Battisti | '10 | Doctor of Music |
| Dr. Thomas L Cobb | '11 | Honorary Degree |
| Sandra M Powell | '11 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Craig S Stenning | '11 | Doctor of Health Services |
| Patricia Martinez | '11 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Danny Smith | '12 | Doctor of Letters |
| Jennifer Duffy | '12 | Doctor of Social Sciences |
| Leslie Gutterman | '12 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Margaret Kenney | '12 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Regina Partridge | '12 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Donald J Driscoll '54 | '13 | Doctor of Education |
| Giovanni Feroce | '13 | Doctor of Business Administration |
| Charles Townsend | '13 | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| Henry Lesieur | '13 | Doctor of Science |
| Marie Petrarca | '13 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Robert Petrarca | '13 | Doctor of Business Administration |
| Charles McDonald | '14 | Doctor of Health |
| Irene Kenny | '14 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| John White | '14 | Doctor of Business Administration |
| Oscar “Tim” Hebert | '14 | Doctor of Business Administration |
| Peter Arpin | '14 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Valerie Tutson | '14 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Walter Ray Stone | '15 | Doctor of Laws |
| Elizabeth Roberts | '15 | Doctor of Health |
| Joseph Chazan | '15 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Robert Galkin | '15 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Robert Scott MacKay | '15 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Wini Galkin | '15 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Alan J. Chille '82 | '16 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Ann-Marie Harrington | '16 | Doctor of Commercial Science |
| Carolyn Rafaelian | '16 | Doctor of Fine Arts |
| Claire Giannamore | '16 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Deloris Davis Grant | '16 | Doctor of Education |
| Ross Kenneth McCurdy | '16 | Doctor of Pedagogy |
| Sonia Nieto | '17 | Doctor of Education |
| Jane Williams | '18 | Doctor of Nursing |
| Luis Miranda Jr. | '19 | Doctor of Humanities |
| Zvart Onanian | ‘21 | Doctor of Nursing |
| Simone P. Joyaux | ‘22 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Louis A Marciano | ‘22 | Doctor of Public Service |
| Elizabeth Burke Bryant | ‘23 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
| Edward Avedisian | ‘23 | Doctor of Humane Letters |