CANDIDATES FOR THE NEW SCHOOL HONORARY DEGREES
The university expects to present six honorary degrees at its May 2009 commencement ceremonies. On behalf of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees and the Honorary Degree Committee, we welcome your nominations.
Honorary degrees are awarded to individuals and organizations whose accomplishments in scholarship, public service, or professional life are outstanding. Awardees are generally chosen from disciplines that represent the various schools and programs of the university. These categories include: visual arts, performing arts, architecture, design, classical and contemporary music, drama, theater and film, writing, journalism and publishing, the humanities, the social sciences, international affairs, public life and government, civil rights, public health, urban planning, technology, the sciences, economics and business.
The University in Exile Award commemorates the rescue mission undertaken by The New School in the 1930s and recognizes national or international figures whose actions, public service, or writing have advanced the cause of democracy and human rights. The award celebrates the living traditions that have strengthened the university while increasing awareness of the relationship between learning and the struggle for a better world.
Past recipients include Galina Starovoitova, a Russian democratic leader; Dogu Ergil, a Turkish human rights activist; Yuri Kochiyama, an American civil rights activist; Saad Eddin Ibrahim, an Egyptian human rights and democracy activist; Oswaldo Payá, Vladimiro Roca Antunez, Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello, Raúl Rivero Castañeda, and Oscar Elías Biscet González, Cuban dissidents; Ami Ayalon and Sari Nusseibeh, Israeli/Palestinian Peace Activists; The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, human rights activist from Argentina; Shirin Ebadi, a human rights activist from Iran; and Wanda Nowicka, a women's rights activist.
Nominations for honorary degrees and the University in Exile Award should be submitted no later than Friday, October 24, 2008. Please note that all submissions should be limited to one page and include biographical information and an explanation of a nominee's qualifications. Please submit nominations to the Office of the Secretary, Room 808, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011, or via e-mail to Jackie Irby in the Secretary's Office at irbyj@newschool.edu.
For your review, attached is a list of past honorary degree recipients and University in Exile award recipients.
THE NEW SCHOOL HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENTS, 1997-2008 |
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| 1997 |
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| Ida Applebroog | Roy Decarva | Fritz Stern |
| Ellen Burstyn | James Marston Fitch | David C. Turnley |
| Robert A. Caro | William Ford Gibson | Peter N. Turnley |
| Theodore Draper | Shulamit Ran | |
| 1998 | ||
| Peter Carey | J. William Klüver | Alejandro Portes |
| Betty Carter | Robert J. Milano | Beverly Russell |
| Robert L. Carter | Juan Montoya | |
| Henry Cohen | Ulric Neisser | |
| 1999 | ||
| Andrew F. Brimmer | Nam June Paik | Richard Rorty |
| Judy Collins | Grace Paley | Marjorie M. Scardino |
| Jonathan F. Fanton | Howardena Pindell | Arthur Singer |
| Whoopi Goldberg | Robert Pinsky | |
| Robert Moses | James Stewart Polshek | |
| 2000 | ||
| Moe Foner | Malcolm Klein | Diane Pilgrim |
| Thomas L. Friedman | Antonia Pantoja | Lowery Sokes Sims |
| Evelyn Fox Keller | Orlando Patterson | Hiroshi Sugimoto |
| 2001 | ||
| John Clifton Bogle | Daniel Urban Kiley | Joseph Stiglitz |
| Sila Calderon | Richard Klausner | Paul Volcker |
| George Dawson | Elizabeth Murray | |
| Esther Dyson | Martha Nussbaum | |
| Ronnie Eldridge | Sabastiao Salgado | |
| 2002 | ||
| Henry H. Arnhold | Abbey Lincoln | |
| William F. Baker | Franklin A. Thomas | |
| Judge Baltasar Garzón | John L. Tishman | |
| Bernard Lewis | ||
The New School Honorary Degree Recipients, 1997-2008 |
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| 2003 | 2005 | |
| Charles Gwathmey | Justice Stephen Breyer | |
| John Hollander | Manuell Castells | |
| Daniel Kahneman | Jenny Holzer | |
| Julia Kristeva | David Levering Lewis | |
| Peter Lewis | August Wilson | |
| 2004 | 2006 | |
| William Bolcom | Laurie Anderson | |
| Chuck Close | Sidney Jones | |
| Katherine Dunham | Enzio Manzini | |
| Donna Karan | Senator John McCain | |
| Peter G. Peterson | Robert Solow | |
| Theodore C. Sorensen | ||
| 2007 | 2008 | |
| Larry Brilliant | Vito Acconci | |
| JoAnn Falletta | Zygmunt Bauman | |
| Foreststron Chico Hamilton | Majora Carter | |
| James C. Hansen | Elizabeth LeCompte | |
| Henry Mintzberg | ||
University in Excil Award |
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| 1999 | ||
| Galina V. Starovoitova | ||
| 2000 | ||
| Dogu Ergil | ||
| Yuri Kochiyama | ||
| 2003 | ||
| Saad Eddin Ibrahim | ||
| Oswaldo Payá | ||
| Vladimiro Roca Antunez | ||
| Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello | ||
| Raúl Rivero Casteñeda | ||
| Oscar ElÃas Biscet González | ||
| 2004 | ||
| Ami Ayalon & Sari Nusseibeh | ||
| 2005 | ||
| The Grandmothers of The Plaza de Mayo |
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| 2007 | ||
| Shirin Ebadi | ||
| 2008 | ||
| Wanda Nowicka | ||
