Past Rutgers University Honorary Degree Recipients
This list of honorary degree recipients is sortable by last name, year conferred, and degree type. Click on the title of the column to sort the list by that particular content.
We have added the honorary degree citations for some of our recipients. Click on the Citation images, where shown, to read them.
| Last name | First name | Year |
Degree |
Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ralph | Sheryl Lee | 2023 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Segal | George | 1970 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Blake | James Hubert | 1974 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Sweeney Price | Mary Sue | 2004 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Edgar | Miriam Colón | 1980 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Goldman | Lawrence P. | 1999 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Taylor | Billy | 1994 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Lichtenstein | Roy | 1990 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Khan | Ricardo | 1997 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Rollins | Sonny | 2009 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Shorter | Wayne | 2019 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Nevelson | Louise | 1972 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Arroyo | Martina | 2012 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Martinez | Angela "Angie" | 2020 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Graham | Martha | 1959 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Graves | Michael | 1994 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Qualles | Paris | 2001 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Hunter-Gault | Charlayne | 1994 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Louis | Murray | 2000 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Carrerras Coll | José | 2002 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Huxtable | Ada Louise | 1974 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Carter | Bennett Lester | 1991 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Pierce | Wendell | 2021 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Lawrence | Jacob | 1988 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Baskin | Leonard | 1969 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Wonder | Stevie | 1999 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Papp | Joseph | 1984 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Child | Julia | 1992 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Van Zandt | Steven | 2017 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Parks | Gordon Alexander | 1980 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Stern | Isaac | 1983 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Schuller | Gunther | 1980 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Dodge | Norton T. | 1995 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Owens "Queen Latifah" | Dana | 2018 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Bergman | Robert P. | 1997 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Marsalis | Wynton | 1997 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Blanchard | Terence | 2023 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Wayne | June C. | 2005 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Hines | Gregory | 2004 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Hines | Jerome | 1993 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Coffey | Katherine Frances | 1966 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Morrow | John Howard | 1963 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Young | Donald Ramsey | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gamper, Jr. | Albert R. | 2007 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Seabrook | Charles Franklin | 1955 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Kaiser | John Boynton | 1960 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Bixby | Frederick Lovell | 1966 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Robeson | Paul | 1973 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Levine | William | 1972 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Burke | James E. | 1984 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
