A research foundation has pulled funding from the University of Melbourne after its recent ceremony issuing honorary doctorates, with the reasoning that those that were the recipients were not diverse enough.
What makes this story more interesting is that 3 women and 1 indigenuous person were also selected to receive on of these doctorates but were unable to attend the ceremony and will be issued at a later date.
Typically an honorary doctorate is recognition for achievements in the field. This isn't like the honorary degree crap they give to celebrities. It does give their doctorate some more initials (PhD.H) they can't call themselves a Dr though but add H.C to the end of their name.
It is sort of like recognition of prior learning but in this case its recognition that your achievements in the field elevate you enough to be recognised as doctor level (though you still aren't granted the full doctorate title)
What Anarcho said. It's used a lot to admit people have moved that field forward, but don't have the university degree to show it off.
The German rocket designers at NASA got fake or honorary degrees to show how much they helped. Many of them hadn't even stepped foot on a university campus.
The rule of thumb is if the person is referenced by everyone, then they need an H.
A research foundation has pulled funding from the University of Melbourne after its recent ceremony issuing honorary doctorates, with the reasoning that those that were the recipients were not diverse enough.
What makes this story more interesting is that 3 women and 1 indigenuous person were also selected to receive on of these doctorates but were unable to attend the ceremony and will be issued at a later date.
https://about.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/news/2022/february/university-of-melbourne-confers-six-honorary-doctorates
No probs.
Typically an honorary doctorate is recognition for achievements in the field. This isn't like the honorary degree crap they give to celebrities. It does give their doctorate some more initials (PhD.H) they can't call themselves a Dr though but add H.C to the end of their name.
It is sort of like recognition of prior learning but in this case its recognition that your achievements in the field elevate you enough to be recognised as doctor level (though you still aren't granted the full doctorate title)
What Anarcho said. It's used a lot to admit people have moved that field forward, but don't have the university degree to show it off.
The German rocket designers at NASA got fake or honorary degrees to show how much they helped. Many of them hadn't even stepped foot on a university campus.
The rule of thumb is if the person is referenced by everyone, then they need an H.