Committees

Important:

Nominations are due by 31 May 2008.
Does your nomination address the criteria set out on this page? If not, the Committee will return the nomination for rewriting.
Does your nomination for an honorary degree include the specific honorary degree?
If your nomination is successful, you will need to draft the citation.

Honorary awards

Call for nominations for honorary degrees and honorary fellows for 2009

Nominations will be considered in 2008 by Senate’s Advisory Committee for Honorary Awards and the Committee’s recommendations will be reported to Senate for its consideration. Honorary awards will be conferred in 2009.

1. Invitation to submit nominations:

The following are invited to submit nominations for honorary degrees and honorary fellows for 2009:

Fellows & former Fellows of Senate
the graduates and 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
such graduates of other universities, or other persons, as are, in accordance with the by-laws, admitted as members of Convocation
Principals of the incorporated colleges
persons declared by the by-laws to be superior officers of the University
persons who possess qualifications that are recognised by the by-laws as being of the same rank as the degree of Bachelor

2. Criteria for honorary degrees:

The nomination for an honorary degree needs to address the criteria. The criteria for selection for honorary degrees will be:

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 nomination for an honorary fellow needs to address the criteria. Honorary Fellows will be selected on the basis of conspicuous continued involvement in one of the following:

(i) support of the interests and welfare of the University of Sydney or of a particular part of the University’s activities;
(ii) promotion of the academic purposes of the University or of facilitating those purposes in any particular activity of the University;
(iii) fostering the links between the University and other institutions within and without Australia;
(iv) enlarging educational opportunities to enter the University among persons with limited prospects of so doing for reasons which they could not overcome;
(v) 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 Registrar:
- by mail, addressed to The Registrar (Honorary Awards), Quadrangle A14, The University of Sydney 2006; or
- by
by 31 May 2008

and should address the relevant criteria and provide sufficient information to identify the person and the case for the award which must be in terms of 2 or 3 above, as appropriate.

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
Registrar

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