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Introduction:
Introduction to Honorary Degrees
Honorary degrees are usually awarded at regular graduation ceremonies, at which the recipients are often invited to make a speech of acceptance before the assembled faculty and graduates – an event which often forms the highlight of the ceremony. Generally universities nominate several persons each year for honorary degrees; these nominees usually go through several committees before receiving approval. Those who are nominated are generally not told until a formal approval and invitation are made;
often it is perceived that the system is shrouded in secrecy, and occasionally seen as political and controversial –
in recent years a trend lamented by many has been to award degrees to popular icons, such as politicians and actors, rather
than to scientists and scholars.
An ad eundem degree may also be considered a sort of honorary degree, although it is only conferred on an individual who has already achieved
a comparable qualification at another university.
The first honorary degree was awarded to Lionel Woodville in the late 1470s by the University of Oxford. He later became Bishop of Salisbury.
In Australia, some "honorary" degrees are in fact earned. They are sometimes called higher doctorates by research, and
viewed as well above a Ph.D. They are used for senior researchers who must submit a portfolio of research, usually comprising
many years' work of significant published writings. These degrees are formallly assessed like any other earned degree.
Between the two extremes of honoring celebrities and formally assessing a portfolio of research, many universities use
honorary degrees to recognize achievements of intellectual rigour that are comparable to an earned degree like New World Mission
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Approved By: Senate (2005) and the Board of Governors (2006) |
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The title of Honorary Professor may be bestowed upon a University colleague to honour him/her
for dedicated service to the University, as a teacher, scholar, researcher, curator (or any combination of these), he/she
having attained academic and/or professional distinction in those disciplines in which he/she has served with excellence the
University community. In the case of an administrator, the title may be held, whether or not the administrator engages in
teaching, research or professional activity in the area of his expertise, in New World Mission Dunamis International University,
with or without remuneration therefor, during the term of his appointment as administrator. His Honorary Professorship shall
be held within a Department of the University and designated by the name of that Department, e.g., Honorars, Professor of
Theology, Divinity, Administration, Business Management, or Professor of the University, or Honorary Professor Award, ect..ect.
Criteria
The above criteria are to be applied somewhat stringently so that the title retains its character
as designating a signal honour of the University for dedicated service to the University of an individual, as a colleague,
as e.g., a Visiting Professor or Researcher, or future administrative colleague, as above outlined, or present holder of the
title. That the title be basically for internal use (as distinct from Honorary Degrees, Adjunct Professorships) and for functions
performed internally in the University for the University. It would not thus include those who more appropriately qualify
for an Honorary Degree or Adjunct Professorship. Should the Honorary Professor qualify under the terms of Professor Emeritus
he shall be designated Professor Emeritus.
Method of Appointment
Nominations for the title and rank of Honorary Professor must be made to the Chair of the academic
unit which is represented in Senate (e.g. Department) in whose area of discipline the qualifications of the nominee are. All
nominations must be accompanied by a curriculum vitae and statement of the reasons for the nomination, and must be
voted upon by the academic unit concerned, in accordance with the usual formal procedures for making appointments in that
unit (e.g. Department). If so approved, the name, curriculum vitae, and reasons must be forwarded to the Dean of the
Faculty concerned, and thence, if approved by the Dean, to the President, and thence, if approved by the President, to the
Senate, and if approved by the Senate, to the Board for final consideration for appointment, as with other Professorships.
The term of holding of the title and rank shall be that of the term of the administrative office, or teaching and/or research
functions, and shall be reviewable and renewable (upon the fulfilment of such conditions) at the end of each year, where the
term of appointment is an annual one. The title and rank carry no salary implications as to remuneration at all, but may be
held by one who holds any of the regular administrative posts in the University or falls under any of the usual categories
of teaching and research, (e.g. sessional lecturer, term appointment). The Customary honorarium for
these procedures and administration is R2500 (South Africa) for the year 2006 .The duties and privileges would be those
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An honorary degree (Latin: honoris causa ad gradum) is an extra-ordinary academic degree awarded to an individual as a decoration, rather than as the result of matriculating and studying for several years. An honorary degree may be conferred by an institution that the recipient never attended.
The degree itself may be a bachelor's, master's or doctorate degree – the last being by far the most common. Usually the degree is conferred with great pomp and ceremony as a way
of honoring a famous or distinguished visitor.
Recipients of an honorary doctorate who do not also hold a bona fide doctorate often choose not to use the title
of "doctor", though it may be appropriate to use the title provided it was conferred based on some tangible and relevant achievement.
Even so, one who holds a honorary doctorate may use the title "doctor". In many countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and the United States, it is not customary for an honorary doctor to use the formal title of "doctor", regardless of the background circumstances
for the award (the clergy being a notable exception: Robert W. Schuller, Robert A. Schuller, Billy Graham, Norman Vincent
Peale and Jerry Falwell, just as examples, are all referred to as "doctor" and refer to themselves that way, even though none
of them possess an earned doctorate but all have several honorary degrees, whereas Martin Luther King, Jr. earned a Ph.D.
from Boston University). One other notable exception is Benjamin Franklin, who, in 1757, received an honorary doctorate from Oxford University for his scientific accomplishments, and from then on went by "Doctor Franklin."
The recipient of an honorary degree may add the degree title postnominally, but it should always be made clear that the degree is honorary by adding "honorary" or "honoris causa" or "h.c." in parenthesis after the degree title.
In recent years, some universities have adopted entirely separate postnominal titles for honorary degrees. This is in part
due to the confusion that honorary degrees have caused. It is now common to use certain degrees, such as LL.D. or Hon.D.,
as purely honorary. For instance, an honorary doctor of the Auckland University of Technology takes the special title Hon.D. instead of the usual Ph.D. Some universities, including the Open University grant Doctorates of the University (D.Univ.) to selected nominees, while awarding Ph.D. or Ed.D. degrees to those who have
fulfilled the academic requirements.
Many American universities only ever award the LL.D. (Doctor of Laws), the Litt.D. (Doctor of Letters), the L.H.D. (Doctor
of Humane Letters), the Sci.D. (Doctor of Science), the Ped.D. (Doctor of Pedagogy) and the D.D. (Doctor of Divinity) as honorary
degrees -- an earned degree in Law would be the J.S.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science), earned degrees in the Liberal Arts or
Humanities or Sciences are generally the Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy), the Ed.D. (Doctor of Education) is the Education degree,
and the Ph.D., Th.D. (Doctor of Theology), S.T.D. (Doctor of Sacred Theology) or D.Min. (Doctor of Ministry) are awarded in
Religion and Theology depending on the particular program. American universities do not have the Oxford/Cambridge system of
"higher doctorates" that is also used at other universities around the world: the earned Ph.D. is the highest formal academic
degree offered.
It should be noted that it is also customary (even necessary if one intends to have a "well-rounded" resumé) for American
graduate students to earn their graduate degrees at institutions other than the one where they earned their bachelor's, and
to join the faculty of yet another school -- that is, whereas many young scholars take their bachelor's, master's and doctoral
degrees at Oxford and then join the faculty there hoping to earn enough scholarly credit to petition for a "higher doctorate"
to go with their professorship, this would be unusual in the United States: there, a student might earn his or her bachelor's
at Harvard, the master's and doctorate at Yale, teach for a time at Columbia, and then join the faculty of Princeton.
Customary degrees
Some universities also have the custom of awarding an honorary master's degree to every scholar it appoints as a full professor who had never earned a degree there, as a way of co-opting him as an alumnus. This is particularly true at the University of Cambridge, where all senior staff (whether academic faculty or not) are eligible for a special master's degree after five years of
service.
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Honorary Award - Application
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all requirements for your degree program.) NEW WORLD MISSION DUNAMIS
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Becoming a Member-
Kofi Annan
Doctor of Laws
Kofi Annan is the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations and the first to be elected from the ranks of UN staff.
Born in Kumasi, Ghana, in 1938, Annan
studied at the University of Science
and Technology in Kumasi and completed his undergraduate work in economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., in 1961.
From 1961 to 1962, he pursued graduate work in economics at the Institut universitaire des hautes études internationales in
Geneva. As a 1971-1972 Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Annan received an M.S. in management.
Beginning in 1962, he has held a succession of important posts within the UN system and has played significant roles in
UN operations in Ethiopia, Iraq, and the former Yugoslavia. He served as assistant secretary-general for Peacekeeping Operations
and as undersecretary-general. Elected to his first term as secretary-general in 1997, Annan was elected to a second term
in 2001 and will serve until 2006.
Annan's priorities as secretary-gen-eral have been to revitalize the United
Nations through a comprehensive program of reform; to strengthen the organization's traditional work in the areas of development
and the maintenance of international peace and security; to encourage and advocate human rights, the rule of law and the universal
values of equality, tolerance, and human dignity as expressed in the United Nations Charter; and to restore public confidence
in the organization by reaching out to new partners and, in his words, by "bringing the United Nations closer to the people."
On Dec. 10, 2001, the secretary-general and the United Nations received the Nobel Peace Prize. In conferring the prize,
the Nobel Committee said Annan "had been pre-eminent in bringing new life to the organization." In also conferring the prize
on the world body, the committee said that it wished "to proclaim that the only negotiable road to global peace and cooperation
goes by way of the United Nations."
New World Mission Dunamis International University share the same goals, adopted the policy of UNESCO and Nominated Dr.
Kofi Anan for an Honorary International Award by the end of 2006.
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