July 11, 2008

Dishonorary Degrees

By CARLIN ROMANO

If an honorary degree lacks value to begin with, does withdrawing it deliver a rebuke to the recipient?

Is whatever honor that comes with the distinction embedded in the fancy paper, or is it wholly in the eye of the degree holder?

Was Jacques Barzun right, years ago in The American University, when he suggested dumping all academic giveaways to government leaders?

The case of Robert Mugabe gets one thinking about this most peculiar of academic nods, worth less than extra

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