{"id":47,"date":"2014-01-20T12:11:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T18:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:45:15","slug":"honorary-degree-nominations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/honorary-degree-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Honorary Degree Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>The Faculty Life Committee invites nominations of candidates for honorary degrees. \u00a0Submissions must be accompanied by a dossier that includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a letter of nomination;<\/li>\n<li>the candidate\u2019s <em>curriculum vitae<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>one or more confidential letters of recommendation;<\/li>\n<li>other relevant supporting materials, such as press clippings, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All nomination dossier materials, including supporting letters, must be received by the Provost by noon on the date indicated on the current year <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/deadlines\/\">Application Deadlines<\/a>\u00a0page.<\/p>\n<p>Honorary degrees are awarded to non-alumni of St. Olaf College whose academic, literary, artistic or humanitarian work embodies the mission of St. Olaf College<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Awards are based on individual merit and accomplishment of an academic, literary, artistic, or humanitarian nature.<\/li>\n<li>Exceptional candidates are those whose contributions have specifically enriched life at St. Olaf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Procedure (effective April 2018):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominator(s) submit the Honorary Degree nomination by noon on the date of the deadline;<\/li>\n<li>The Faculty Life Committee reviews the nomination, a member of the FLC presents a motion to recommend\/not recommend the Honorary Degree, and the FLC votes on this motion. Alternatively, a subcommittee of the FLC presents such a motion to the full committee, which then votes on it.<\/li>\n<li>The chair of the FLC presents its recommendation to the President.<\/li>\n<li>If the President approves the recommendation of the candidate, the proposer introduces the candidate&#8217;s qualifications at a Faculty Meeting. The information provided remains strictly confidential.<\/li>\n<li>At the next Faculty Meeting after the presentation, the faculty votes on the nomination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rationale for the two-step procedure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Honorary Degree nominations have, in the past, been presented and voted on at the same Faculty Meeting with the intent of ensuring that the identity of the candidate remain confidential.<\/li>\n<li>However, this practice is inconsistent with every other vote of the faculty, for which information is provided in advance.<\/li>\n<li>The two-step procedure is designed to maintain confidentiality (by not publishing the name of the candidate in the agenda) while allowing faculty time between meetings to explore the candidate&#8217;s background if they desire, in order more completely to inform their vote.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information on past recipients of honorary degrees, click <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/honorary-degree-history\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty Life Committee invites nominations of candidates for honorary degrees. \u00a0Submissions must be accompanied by a dossier that includes: a letter of nomination; the candidate\u2019s curriculum vitae; one or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/faculty-life-committee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}