HONORARY DEGREES
 

5/11/66
     Approved awarding honorary degrees to: Paul Briggs, Henry Heald and John Bruere.
 
6/8/67
     Approved awarding honorary degrees to: T. Keith Glennan. Ralph Jelliffe and Rowena Jelliffe.
 
1/11/68   (68-5)
     Authorized presenting honorary degrees to honorary graduates of Fenn College at an appropriate ceremony to be held in March 1968.
 
3/14/68   (68-22)
     Approved awarding honorary degrees to: Walter Bailey, John Fisher, John S. Millis, Irvine Page and George Szell.
 
2/13/69   (69-14)
     Approved awarding honorary degrees to: Robben Fleming, Kenneth Clark, Jospeh Miller, Lars Onsager and Herman Wells.
 
3/12/70   (70-18)
     Approved awarding honorary degrees to:  Thurgood Marshall, Kenneth Clark, Wilbur Cohen, Philip Hauser, Irvine Page, Linus Pauling and Richard Teare, Jr.

5/21/71   (71-24)
     Approved awarding honorary degrees to:  Bruce Newman and Charles Clarke.
 
4/13/72   (72-27)
     Approved awarding honorary degrees to:  Burl Bush and Herbert Elwell.
 
4/30/80   (80-17)
     Revised the Trustees By-Laws, Section 4.2 deleted and replaced: "The Committee on Honorary Degrees shall consist of two Trustees, the President, Provost, and three faculty memebers.  The Committee shall recommend to the Trustees all candiadtes for honorary degrees..."

4/26/2000   (2000-24)
     Approved awarding honorary degrees to:  Drew Cary, Grace Drake, Chung-Won Suh, Jeanette Grasselli Brown, Robert Madison, and Larry Robinson.

4/26/2000   (2000-25)
     No honorary degree shall be offered or announced until after the Trustees have approved.

4/24/02  (02-22)
     Approved honorary degrees for:  Barbara Byrd-Bennett, Robert Lockwood, Jr., William F. Patient, Ralph Regula, and William Summers, Jr.

11/20/02  (02-69)
     Approved Kenneth Semelsberger and Robert Tomsich as honrary degree candidates for the December 2002 Commencement.

11/20/02   (02-70)
     Approved By-Laws revision changing the name of the Honrary Degrees Committee to the Committee on Citations and Recognition

10/22/03   (03-84)
     Delegated authority to the Honrary Degrees, Citations & Recognitions Comm. only to offer and contact persons to receive honorary degrees at the 12/03 commencement.

12/12/03  (03-92)
     Approved presenting honorary awards to Donald Bently, Dr. George Stark, and Dan O'Shannon at the December 2003 Commencement.   

04/05/04  (04-16)
      Approved presenting honorary awards to U.S. Congressman Dave Hobson and Donald E. Waskewicz.

9/16/05   (05-62)
      Approved presentng honorary degrees to Federal Reserve Bank President Sandra Pianalto and US Congressman Steven LaTourette.

4/20/07  (07-32)
      Approved awarding Timothy Russert a honorary degree at the spring Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Commencement.

11/17/06  (06-79)
     Approved presenting honorary degrees at the 12/17/06 commencement ceremony to: Delos M. Cosgrove, Trevor Jones, Jennie Jones, and Masumi Hayashi (posthumously).

1/26/07  (07-07)
     Approved presenting honorary degrees at the 5/12/07 commencement ceremony to: John and Annie Glenn and Stephen F. Kirk.

11/16/07   (07-98)
	Approved presenting honorary degrees at the 12/16/07 commencement ceremony to: Andrew A. Venable, Jr. and Paul A. Unger.
 
2/22/08   (08-12)
	Approved presenting honorary degrees at the 5/10/08 commencement ceremony to: Martha Collins, Timothy J. Cosgrove, Paul J. Everson, Morton L. Mandel, Stephen C. Morris, and Elizabeth A. Pugh.

10/23/08   (08-81)
	Approved the recommendation of the Recognition Committee, with the concurrence of  the Graduation, Convocation and Assembly Committee of the Faculty Senate, that Honorary Degrees be awarded to Harriett Mayor Fulbright, Henry J. Goodman, and Dr. Jerry Sue Thornton at the University’s December 14, 2008 Commencement ceremony.

3/9/09   (09-05)
	Approved honorary degree candidates to be awarded at the CSU and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law commencement ceremonies in May 2009: Jean Murrell Capers, Kent W. Clapp, Lawrence J. Dolan, Roger B. Manning, Thomas J. Moyer, Les Roberts, James A. Thomas, and Ellis Yan.

11/10/09  (09-80)
	Approved honorary degree candidates:  Glenn R. Brown at 12/3/09 commencement and Henry Louis Gates at the 5/15/10 commencement.

4/8/10  (10-22)
	Approved that Dr. Jonathon Jansen; Dr. William Martin (Distinguiushed Emeritus Faculty) and James Thompson (Law) be awarded honorary degrees at the Spring Commencement Ceremony.
	
3/28/11  (11-14)
	Approved May 2011 Commenecement honorary degrees 
		Lillian Burke (C-M)
		William Conway
		Edna Shalala
		Leonard Trawick (Distinguished Emeritus Faculty)
		Anthony Yen
		
11/29/11  (11-85)
	Approved December commencement honorary degrees:
		Valarie McCall
		Larry Glasscock
		
4/11/12  (12-7)
	Approved May commencement honorary degrees:
		Frank Jackson, Mayor of Cleveland
		Alan D. Waren (Distinguished Emeritus Faculty)
		
11/7/12  (12-99)
	Approved December commencement honorary degrees:
		Nam-Wook Cho
		Dianne McIntyre
		Steven A. Minter
		Albert Ratner
		
3/18/13  (13-23)
	Approved May commencement honorary degrees:
		Dr. Ira Harkavy
		Brent Larkin
		Congressman John Lewis
		Nina Totenberg
		Lewis E. Patterson (Distinguished Emeritus Faculty Honorary Degree)
		
3/25/14  (14-15)
	May commencement honorary degree recipients approved:
		Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
		Congresswoman Marcia Fudge
		Richard Barone
		Dr. Julian Earls
		Art J. Falco
		Toshinori Munakata (Distinguished Emeritus Faculty Honorary Degree)
		
3/30/15   (15-07)
	May commencement honorary degree recipients approved:
		Christopher M. Connor
		Ohio Governor John Kasich
		George Stephanopoulos
		Robert Steinbacher  (Distinguished Emeritus Faculty Honorary Degree)
		
3/9/16  (16-11)
	May commencement honorary degree recipients approved:
		Dr. Mary Therese Winifred Robinson
		Robert W. Rawson, Jr.
		Norman Krumholz, (Distinguished Emeritus Faculty Honorary Degree)
		
11/30/16 (16-81)
	December commencement honorary degree recipients approved:
		Dr. E. Gordon Gee
		Rich Paul
		
3/30/17  (17-  )
	May commencement honorary degree recipients approved:
		William M. Denihan
		Linda A. Klein  (C-M)
		Stephen Percy	(C-M)
		Richard Pogue	(C-M)
		Dr. Piotr Wilczek
		Dr. Magnolia Jackson (Distinguished Emerita Faculty Honorary Degree)
		
3/23/18/(18-20)
	May commencement honorary degree recipients approved:
		Jo Ann Davidson
		Patricia Ann Blackmon 	(C-M)
		Melody Steward			(C-M)
		
11/15/18  (18-101)
	Approved awarding honorary degree to Dr. Stephen Rowan at the December 2018 Commencement program.
	
11/15/18   (18-102)
	Approved awarding posthumous honorary degree to CSU student Serene Sivestro
	
3/12/19  (19-15)
	Approved awarding honorary degree to Dr. Michael Schwartz at the May 2019 commencement program
	
11/21/19  (19-75)
	Approved Dr. Lilly NG and Scott Mueller for honorary degrees