{"id":5203,"date":"2015-10-15T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T23:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/policy\/ie_policy\/awarding_of_honorary_degrees\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:38:12","slug":"awarding_of_honorary_degrees","status":"publish","type":"ie_policy","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/policy\/awarding-of-honorary-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"Awarding of Honorary Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In accordance with University of Louisiana System Board Rules <a href=\"https:\/\/ul-system.files.svdcdn.com\/production\/resources\/board-members\/Rules\/Chapter-I\/Chpt_I_VI_Special_Degrees_Feb2013.pdf?dm=1755986066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Part Two, Chapter I, Section VI<\/span><\/a>, the University may grant honorary degrees to persons who have made substantial achievements in literary, artistic, scientific, or technical fields of endeavor and must follow these guidelines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No honorary degree shall be awarded that could be confused with an earned degree granted by an accredited institution.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two categories of individuals are excluded from receiving honorary degrees: 1) faculty or staff members currently employed by the University and 2) Louisiana elected officials in office at the time of selection and conferral of the honorary degree.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>No more than two honorary degrees may be awarded per academic year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommendations for honorary degrees must come from the president of the University of Louisiana System, the president of the University, and the faculty of the appropriate college of the University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president may appoint members to an ad hoc committee to receive, consider, and transmit nominations for honorary degrees to the administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading display-3\">Communication<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This policy is distributed via the University Policies webpage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","policy_types":[12],"class_list":["post-5203","ie_policy","type-ie_policy","status-publish","hentry","policy_types-academics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ie_policy\/5203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ie_policy"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ie_policy"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ie_policy\/5203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16757,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ie_policy\/5203\/revisions\/16757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"policy_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/policy_types?post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}