honorary degrees

March 17, 2022
Shriver, Fauci, Klawe to speak at Spring Commencement

The U.S. president’s chief medical adviser, an award-winning journalist and a computer scientist are recommended to receive honorary degrees and will speak at U-M’s various Spring Commencement ceremonies.
December 19, 2021
Winter graduates urged to ‘value the fearless pursuit of truth’

Speaking at U-M’s first in-person Winter Commencement since 2019, Ruth Simmons, president of Prairie View A&M University, cautioned graduates not to shed the high expectations and standards set for them as students.
November 11, 2021
Four recommended for Winter Commencement honorary degrees

Four leaders in the fields of higher education, theater, mathematics and community research are being recommended for honorary degrees at the Ann Arbor campus’ 2021 Winter Commencement.
September 27, 2021
Campus briefs

Short news items from around the University of Michigan.
September 21, 2021
University seeks nominations for honorary degree recipients

The U-M community is being asked to nominate individuals who have contributed to their field or society to be considered for honorary degrees.
March 25, 2021
Five to receive honorary degrees at Spring Commencement

Five leaders in the areas of information technology, engineering, human rights and the arts have been recommended to receive honorary degrees at the Ann Arbor campus’ 2021 Spring Commencement.
September 21, 2020
University seeks nominations for honorary degree recipients

The campus community is being asked to nominate individuals who have contributed to their field or society to be considered for honorary degrees.
September 21, 2020
Campus briefs

U-M ranked No. 1 public university in U.S., 23rd overall The University of Michigan was ranked as the top U.S public university by The Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education in their 2021 U.S. college ranking. U-M moved up four spots to No. 23 overall in a list of universities throughout the United States,…
December 15, 2019
Meijer reminds graduates life is an opportunity for reinvention
Unlike the deadlines they faced for papers or exams, U-M’s newest graduates will never run out of time to revise their life story, 2019 Winter Commencement speaker Hendrik G. (Hank) Meijer told them.
- UM-Dearborn commencement
- UM-Flint commencement
November 1, 2019
Five recommended for Winter Commencement honorary degrees

Five leaders in fields of endeavor that reach from the Ann Arbor arts community to the global fight for public health have been recommended for honorary degrees at the Ann Arbor campus’ Winter Commencement.