Honorary awards
Call for nominations for honorary degrees and honorary fellows of the University for 2010
Nominations will be considered this year by Senate’s Advisory Committee for Honorary Awards and the Committee’s recommendations will be reported to Senate for its consideration. Honorary awards approved by Senate will be conferred next year, in 2010.
The purpose of honorary degrees is for the University of Sydney to recognise exceptional achievement.
The purpose of the award of the title of Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney is to recognise outstanding service to the University.
1. Invitation to submit nominations:
The following are invited to submit nominations for honorary degrees and honorary fellows for 2010:
- Fellows and former Fellows of Senate
- the students of the University
- the full-time members of the academic and general staff of the University and such other members or classes of members of the staff of the University as the by-laws may prescribe
- the principals of the incorporated colleges
- the graduates of the University
- such graduates of other universities, or other persons, as are, in accordance with the by-laws, admitted as members of Convocation
2. Criteria for honorary degrees:
The purpose of honorary degrees is for the University of Sydney to recognise exceptional achievement.
The criteria for selection for an honorary degree will be one or more of the following:
- academic eminence, or
- distinguished creative achievement, or
- an outstanding contribution beyond the expectations of the person’s particular field of endeavour which has influenced the thinking or general well-being of the wider community.
3. Criteria for honorary fellows:
The purpose of the award of the title of Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney is to recognise outstanding service to the University.
Honorary Fellows will be selected on the basis of conspicuous continued involvement in one of the following:
- support of the interests and welfare of the University of Sydney or of a particular part of the University’s activities;
- promotion of the academic purposes of the University or of facilitating those purposes in any particular activity of the University;
- fostering the links between the University and other institutions within and without Australia;
- enlarging educational opportunities to enter the University among persons with limited prospects of so doing for reasons which they could not overcome;
- representation of the University’s needs for resources for its growth and diversification and supply of such resources.
4. Submitting nominations:
Names of proposed recipients for honorary degrees or honorary fellowships should be submitted to the Secretary to Senate:
- by mail, addressed to Dr W Adams, Secretary to Senate, Quadrangle A14, The University of Sydney 2006; or
- by
by 31 May 2009.
Nominations for honorary degrees should:
- specify the honorary degree proposed;
- specify the criterion/criteria on which the nomination is based (set out above);
- address that criterion/criteria, providing sufficient information to identify the person and the case for the award in terms of the criterion/criteria; and
- include statements in support of the nominee’s standing and achievements.
Nominations for the title of honorary fellow should:
- specify the criterion/criteria on which the nomination is based (set out above); and
- address that criterion/criteria, providing sufficient information to identify the person and the case for the award in terms of the criterion/criteria.
5. Confidentiality:
Any person nominated for the award of an honorary degree or honorary fellowship shall not be consulted beforehand, nor at any time prior to the person being advised of Senate’s decision, and all nominations, deliberations, investigations and recommendations relating to the nomination shall be treated as strictly confidential by all persons concerned.
6. Guidelines
View the Guidelines for honorary awards.
7. Procedures
View the Procedures for honorary awards.
Dr William Adams
Secretary to Senate