Union Institute & University recognizes excellence with the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters

Union Institute & University is proud to bestow the university’s highest level of recognition and honor to individuals

Union Institute & University is proud to bestow the university’s highest level of recognition and honor to individuals who demonstrate an exemplary contribution to the field of higher education or have evidenced extraordinary scholarship and leadership in a field or discipline reflected in the university’s mission and community.

Recipients of our Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters:

2016

  • Dr. Joseph G. Bock, Director of the Ph.D. Program in International Conflict Management in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Kennesaw State University, Georgia.

 

2015

 

2014

  • Major General Sharon Dunbar, US Airforce (ret)

 

2013

  • Edward O’Neil, MD, founder/president OMNIMED, ER physician

 

2012

  • Lee Baca, sheriff, LA County (10/2015)
  • Larraine Matusak, Ph.D., scholar, leadership expert, educator, advocate for adult education

 

2011

  • Cheryl M. Foley, past trustee, past Board chair, attorney, activist (Sacramento)
  • George Pruitt, past trustee, past Board chair, president of Thomas Edison State College, New Jersey (Florida)
  • Lisa Q. Lorimer Donahue, past trustee, past Board chair, founder and former CEO Vermont Bread Company (National)

 

 

2009

  • Juana Bordas, President, Mestiza Leadership International, Author, Activist

 

2008

  • David Gergen, Advisor to U.S. Presidents, Political Analyst

 

2006

  • Nancy Rudolph, UI&U alumna; photographer

 

2005

National Commencement

  • Eugene Reuhlmann, UI&U trustee; former mayor of Cincinnati

 

2004

April Vermont College-Montpelier ADP Commencement

  • Richard Hathaway, Professor of Liberal Studies, Adult Degree Program since 1965

 

National Commencement

  • George Korey, UI&U Trustee since 1980; Founding President and Chancellor Emeritus, Canadian School of Management

 

2003

National Commencement

  • Frances Hesselbein, founder and chair, board of governors, Leader to Leader Institute (formerly Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management); former executive director, Girls Scouts of the USA

 

 

2001

Miami Regional Commencement:

  • Portia Simpson Miller, B.A. 1997

 

National Commencement

Marcellette G. Williams, Interim Chancellor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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