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2001 Presidential Installation Honorary
Degree Recipients
The ceremony took place on February 20, 2001 at Carnegie Hall.
Joseph Lieberman, U.S. senator from Connecticut, offered introductory
remarks. Other speakers included John L. Tishman, Chair of the Board
of Trustees of New School University; L. Dennis Smith, president
of the University of Nebraska; Jonathan Fanton, former New School
University President and current president of the MacArthur Foundation;
Gita Sen, professor of the Indian Institute of Management; and Richard
Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Faculty
of Political and Social Science.
Esther Dyson,
president of EDventure Holdings, received a Doctor of Humane Letters.
Richard D. Klausner, director of
the National Cancer Institute, received a Doctor of Humane Letters.
Martha C. Nussbaum, professor of
Law and ethics at the University of Chicago, received a Doctor of
Humane Letters.
Sabastião Salgado, photographer,
received a Doctor of Fine Arts degree.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, professor of
economics at Stanford University, received a Doctor of Humane letters.
2001 New School University
Honorary Degree Recipients
Commencement took place on May 23, 2001 at Radio City Music Hall.
John Clifton Bogle,
founder and chief executive officer of Vanguard Group Investment
Companies, received a Doctor of Laws degree.
Sila M. Calderón, governor
of Puerto Rico, received a Doctor of Laws degree.
George Dawson, who was born the
grandson of slaves in Marshall, Texas, in 1898 and who learned to
read at age 98, received a Doctor of Humane Letters. Mr. Dawson
was the author of Life is so Good (in collaboration with Richard
Glaubman).
Ronnie Eldridge, member of the
New York City Council since 1989 and a public servant most of her
life, received a Doctor of Laws degree.
Daniel Urban Kiley, master landscape
architect, whose most famous public works are at Lincoln Center,
Rockefeller University and the Nationsbank in Tampa, Florida, received
a Doctor of Fine Arts degree.
Elizabeth Murray, painter, whose
work has been the subject of over 40 solo exhibitions, including
major museum retrospectives, received a Doctor of Fine Arts degree.
Paul A. Volcker, economist who
was chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System
from 1979 to 1987 and whose leadership was instrumental in "breaking
the back" of inflation, received a Doctor of Laws degree.
God's Love We Deliver, a New York
City-based, not-for-profit, non-sectarian organization established
in 1986 to deliver warm meals to homebound people with AIDS, received
a Doctor of Humane Letters degree. Nancy Mahon, executive director
of the organization, accepted the degree.
2000-2001 Recipients of University Distinguished
Teaching Awards
The awards were presented at Convocation on August 30, 2001 at Tishman
Auditorium.
Mary Barto, Mannes
College of Music
Susan Cane, Milano Graduate School
Tsuyako Namiki, Parsons School
of Design
Robert Polito, The New School
Deborah Poole, Graduate Faculty
2000-2001 Recipients of Service Excellence
Awards
Mahradad Emadzadeh
Maintenance, Facilities Services, New School University
Kelly Grossi
Director of Academic Advising, Parsons School of Design
William Kimmel
Director of University Records, New School University
2001 Parsons Award
The award was presented on April 17, 2001 at the
Parsons "Fashion Critics Awards Benefit" at the Marriott
Marquis in Times Square to Gene S. Kahn,
president and chief executive officer of The May Department Stores
Company
Special Lectures
The New School celebrated the installation of J Robert Kerrey as New
School University's seventh President with a seven-part lecture series
revisiting the original seven courses offered by the New School for
Social Research in 1919. Speakers in the series included Robert Reich,
Smith College president (now Brown University president), Ruth Simmons,
Manning Marable, Robert N. Bellah, Orlando Patterson, James K. Galbraith
and Howard Gardner.
Professor Bernd Weisbrod,
Heuss Professor at the Graduate Faculty, presented "The Shedding
of the Nazi Past: The Politics of Self-Denazification in Postwar
Germany" on April 17, 2001.
The governor of Saxony, Kurt Biedenkopf,
presented a lecture entitled "Democracy in the New States"
on April 18, 2001.
Robert Reich gave the third annual
"Stella Saltonstall Lecture" on February 26, 2001.
Tom Geoghegan, former congressional
staffer, gave the "Helen Shapiro Lecture" on the electoral
process on September 27, 2000.
David Levering Lewis, author, gave
the W.E.B. DuBois lecture on April 13, 2001. He discussed W.E.B.
DuBois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963,
the recently published second volume of his biography on the African-American
civil rights pioneer. DuBois taught at The New School.
Ann Snitow, member of the faculty
of Eugene Lang College, presented "The Aims of Education"
address at Convocation on August 30, 2001 at Tishman Auditorium.
Linda Nochlin, professor of art
at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, gave the "John
McDonald Moore Memorial Lecture" on November 9, 2000. John
McDonald Moore taught art history and criticism at The New School
from 1968 until his death in 1999.
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