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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gelfand | Israel Moiseevich | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Roe | Robert A. | 1993 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Jordan | Barbara | 1993 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Hines | Jerome | 1993 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Levin | Wayne M. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Mayo | John S. | 1993 | Doctor of Science | |
| Whitman | Christine Todd | 1994 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Osborn | June E. | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Graves | Michael | 1994 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Solow | Robert M. | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hunter-Gault | Charlayne | 1994 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Meier | August | 1994 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Cohen | Stanley Norman | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Rockoff | Alvin J. | 1994 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Taylor | Billy | 1994 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Pye | Mort | 1994 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Goldstine | Herman Heine | 1994 | Doctor of Science | |
| Baker | William Oliver | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Hughes | William John | 1995 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Wilson | William Julius | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Dodge | Norton T. | 1995 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Witkin | Evelyn M. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Stevens | Rosemary A. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Ackerman | Roger G. | 1995 | Doctor of Science | |
| Shalala | Donna E. | 1995 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Holstrom | Carleton A. | 1995 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Wilson | August | 1996 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Parrott | Bishop James W., Sr. | 1996 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Mahoney | David J. | 1996 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Lerman | Miles | 1996 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Marshall | Paule | 1996 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Pino | John Anthony | 1996 | Doctor of Science | |
| Khan | Ricardo | 1997 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Nujoma | Sam | 1997 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Oates | Joyce Carol | 1997 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Bergman | Robert P. | 1997 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Marsalis | Wynton | 1997 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Linder | William J. | 1998 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Gould | William Benjamin, IV | 1998 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Waelsch | Salome Gluecksohn | 1998 | Doctor of Science | |
| Schwartz | Anna Jacobson | 1998 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Piñon | Nélida | 1998 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Newmark | Harold L. | 1998 | Doctor of Science | |
| Bradley | Bill | 1999 | Doctor of Laws | |
| Ozick | Cynthia | 1999 | Doctor of Letters | |
| Wall | Monroe E. | 1999 | Doctor of Science | |
| Jackson | Shirley Ann | 1999 | Doctor of Science | |
| Wonder | Stevie | 1999 | Doctor of Fine Arts | |
| Heldrich | John J. | 1999 | Doctor of Humane Letters | |
| Strickland, Jr. | William E. | 1999 | Doctor of Humane Letters |
