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Honorary Degree Recipients

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Year Recipients
2025 No recipient designated
2024 Rick Lanoha, Doctor of Commerce
Joan Squires, Doctor of Fine Arts
2023 Mildred Brown (posthumous), Doctor of Humane Letters
Chuck Hagel, Doctor of Humane Letters
Thomas D. Mangelsen, Doctor of Fine Arts
2022 Karrin Allyson, Doctor of Fine Arts
2021 John Hyten, Doctor of Law
2020 Samuel Bak, Doctor of Humane Letters
Mort Crim, Doctor of Humane Letters
2019 Cathy Hughes, Doctor of Commerce
2018 Michael Crow, Doctor of Science
Willy Theisen, Doctor of Commerce
2017 Barbara Holland, Doctor of Humane Letters
Ruth and Bill Scott, Doctors of Humane Letters
Gail Walling Yanney and Michael B. Yanney, Doctors of Humane Letters
2016 No recipient designated
2015 Aldo Tesi, Doctor of Humane Letters
2014 No recipient designated
2013 Harold H. Saunders, Doctor of Humane Letters
2012 Richard Holland, Doctor of Humane Letters
2011 No recipient designated
2010 No recipient designated
2009 No recipient designated
2008 No recipient designated
2007 Sam Fried, Doctor of Humane Letters
Vard R. Johnson, Doctor of Humane Letters
2006 Jun Kaneko, Doctor of Humane Letters
2005 John Beasley, Doctor of Humane Letters
Hamid Karzai, Doctor of Letters
Ann Mactier, Doctor of Education
Paige Mulhollan, Doctor of Letters
2004 Marian Andersen, Doctor of Letters
Alexander Payne, Doctor of Humane Letters
2003 Rita Colwell, Doctor of Letters
Admiral Richard W. Mies, Doctor of Laws
Richard Riley, Doctor of Laws
2002 Hal France, Doctor of Letters
Charles Holland, Doctor of Letters
Dumitru Oprea, Doctor of Letters
Lee Simmons, Doctor of Science
Victor Yampolsky, Doctor of Letters
2001 Hans Brisch, Doctor of Letters
Robert Hemenway, Doctor of Letters
2000 Eugeniu Hriscev, Doctor of Letters
1999 Marion Marsh Brown, Doctor of Humane Letters
Paul Volcker, Doctor of Philosophy
Denham Harman, Doctor of Science
1998 No recipient designated
1997 William Kizer, Doctor of Humane Letters
1996 Hugh Sidey, Doctor of Humane Letters
Libby Larsen, Doctor of Humane Letters
Shirley Goldstein, Doctor of Humane Letters
1995 Ulrich Littmann, Doctor of Humane Letters
1994 No recipient designated
1993 Viorel Barbu, Doctor of Letters
1992 Hubert Locke, Doctor of Humane Letters
Phillip Schrager, Doctor of Letters
1991 No recipient designated
1990 John Madden, Doctor of Laws
Radim Palous, Doctor of Humane Letters
1989 Charles W. and Margre H. Durham, Doctor of Humane Letters
Owen A. Knutzen, Doctor of Humane Letters
Donald L. Stroh, Doctor of Humane Letters
1988 No recipient designated
1987 Kazou Takechi, Doctor of Humane Letters
Marilyn Mason, Doctor of Music
1986 Ken Maruyama, Doctor of Letters
John L. DeMain, Doctor of Arts and Letters
1985 John L. Holland, Doctor of Letters
Sidney H. Brooks, Doctor of Humane Letters
Malcolm Baldrige, Doctor of Letters
Ralph W. Tyler, Doctor of Letters
1984 Shirley Hill, Doctor of Humane Letters
Eugene W. Skinner, Doctor of Humane Letters
Jaroslav Pelikan, Doctor of Humane Letters
1983 Fred Waring, Doctor of Arts and Letters
Luvern L. Cunningham, Doctor of Humane Letters
Walter Scott, Jr., Doctor of Letters
1982 Helen Cherniack, Doctor of Humane Letters
Robert B. Daugherty, Doctor of Letters
1981 Richard H. Ellis, Doctor of Laws
1980 Gerald Trautman, Doctor of Laws
Wally Provost, Doctor of Letters
1979 Margaret McNamara, Doctor of Letters
Dale Te Kolste, Doctor of Laws
1978 Gretchen Swanson Pullen, Doctor of Humane Letters
John C. Kenefick, Doctor of Laws
F. Edward Borchers, Doctor of Law
1977 Robert P. Hupp, Doctor of Humane Letters
R. Stewart Jones, Doctor of Humane Letters
Saul Kripke, Doctor of Humane Letters
A.V. Sorensen, Doctor of Laws
1976 Claude H. Organ, Doctor of Humane Letters
Morris F. Miller, Doctor of Laws
Leo A. Daly, Doctor of Laws
Richard D. Winchell, Doctor of Laws
Russell E. Dougherty, Doctor of Laws
1975 Harold W. Andersen, Doctor of Humane Letters
Thomas S. Nurnberger, Doctor of Laws
Theodore L. Eliot, Jr., Doctor of Laws
Abdullah Malikyar, Doctor of Laws
Ghulam Sadeeq Mohibbi, Doctor of Humane Letters
Ralph M. Wardle, Doctor of Humane Letters
1974 Roy M. Robbins, Doctor of Humane Letters
Jan de Hartog, Doctor of Humane Letters
Joseph J. Labij, Doctor of Humane Letters
James A. Michener, Doctor of Letters
1973 Eugene A. Leahy, Doctor of Laws
John P. McGovern, Doctor of Science
1972 Gustave O. Arlt, Doctor of Humane Letters
1971 Willis A. Strauss, Doctor of Laws
Robert M. Spire, Doctor of Humane Letters
James Mayberry Earl, Doctor of Science

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