Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.
Honorary Degrees

2007

University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (Doctor of Science) (May 20, 2007: Commencement Speaker)

Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA (Doctor of Humane Letters) (May 21, 2007: Commencement Speaker)

Teachers College, Columbia University (Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service [equivalent of Honorary Degree]) (May 15, 2007) (Master’s Convocation Speaker)

University of Miami (Doctor of Sciences) (May 11, 2007) (Undergraduate Degree Ceremony Speaker, School of Business Administration and College of Engineering)

2006

Colorado School of Mines (December 15, 2006)

Georgetown University (November 1, 2006)

Harvard, Cambridge, MA (June 8, 2006)

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (May 15, 2006)

Howard University, Washington, DC (May 13, 2006)

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (March 19, 2006: Commencement Speaker)

College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA (February 11, 2006)

2005

Boston University, Boston, MA (May 22, 2005: Baccalaureate Service Speaker)

2004

University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (July 9, 2004)

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (June 18, 2004)

Holy Cross, Worcester, MA (May 28, 2004: Commencement Speaker)

So. Connecticut University (May 27, 2004: Commencement Speaker)

Colby College, Waterville, ME (May 23, 2004)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (May 16, 2004)

Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY (May 9, 2004: Commencement Speaker)

Bennett College, Greensboro, NC (May 8, 2004)

Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN (May 1, 2004: Commencement Speaker)

Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA (January 2004: Commencement Speaker)

2003

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (December 2003)

University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC (May 2003: Commencement Speaker)

Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (May 25, 2003)

The City College of the City University of NY (May 2003: Commencement Speaker)

Smith College, Northampton, MA (May 19, 2002)

2001

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (December 15, 2001)

Northeastern University, Boston, MA (June 16, 2001)

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (May 19, 2001)

2000

Medgar Evers College, NY (December 6, 2000: Commencement Speaker) 

SUNY-Farmingdale, NY (September 28, 2000)

Dartmouth College, NH (June 11, 2000: Commencement Speaker)

Spelman College, GA (May 21, 2000: Commencement Speaker)

1999

Williams College, MA

Rutgers University, NJ

New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ 

University of Massachusetts, MA

Hood College, MD

1997

St. Peters College, NJ

Villanova University, PA

1996

Cheyney University, PA

1993

Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ

1991

Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ