Degrees Honoris Causa

Hamsey

I sometimes attend meetings of the University Senate. The point of honorary degrees seems to be publicity for TCD. It all seems rather cheap and pointless.

If we do give out honorary degrees, it should be limited to TCD graduates and to past or present staff and students.

dabh

Well, that is the traditional role of honorary degrees. By way of comparison, here is the list of honorary degrees awarded over the past couple of decades at another place:

http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/degrees/honorary/list.xls

Unregistered.

Hamsey wrote: »

I sometimes attend meetings of the University Senate. The point of honorary degrees seems to be publicity for TCD. It all seems rather cheap and pointless.

If we do give out honorary degrees, it should be limited to TCD graduates and to past or present staff and students.

ever raise the issue at the University Senate?

andrew

Is there a list of people who've gotten one from Trinity anywhere? So long as they're not giving them out to complete muppets I don't see the problem.

Podge_irl

Giving out honorary degrees is a standard practice for most universities as long as the person in question has some connection, however tenuous, with the institution in question.

Hamsey

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ever raise the issue at the University Senate?

I was going to raise it the last time I attended a meeting, but Robert Redford was being proposed and he was at my wife's old school so I was talked out of it and just abstained.

godtabh

Hamsey wrote: »

I was going to raise it the last time I attended a meeting, but Robert Redford was being proposed and he was at my wife's old school so I was talked out of it and just abstained.

With that kind of attitude how can we fail