Lowell Honorary Degree Nomination Procedures

Administrative Announcement and Honorary Degree Nomination Form is sent to all faculty, staff and students from the Chancellor.
Honorary Degree Candidate: information collected is placed in a binder and forwarded to the University’s Honorary Degree Committee for their review.
Honorary Degree Committee consists of, Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor, Provost, Associate Provost, Dean’s of Colleges, Faculty Representative, Senior Class President, Student Government President, Student Trustee and Staff Representative.
Honorary Degree Committee meets in early October to review the Candidates and make the final selection. After the selection has been made a memo from the Chancellor along with the names of the nominees and biographical information is forwarded to the Board of Trustees for their approval.
After approval from the Board has been received a letter from the Chancellor is sent to the potential Honorary Degree recipient.