Honorary Degree Nomination Form (PDF)
Honorary degrees listed in chronological order
| Name | Degree | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Dr. John H. Bosshart | Litt.D. | 10/23/58 |
| 2. Mr. Joel R. Jacobson | Litt.D. | 06/04/59 |
| 3. Mr. Harold Bruce Palmer | Litt.D. | 06/04/59 |
| 4. Dr. Allen Balcom DuMont | Litt.D. | 06/09/60 |
| 5. Mr. Bertram B. Johansson (’38) | Litt.D. | 06/09/60 |
| 6. Mr. John T. Cunningham | Litt.D. | 06/08/61 |
| 7. Ms. Ruth Hornby Page (’32) | Litt.D. | 06/07/62 |
| 8. Dr. George Rochberg (’39) | Litt.D. | 06/07/62 |
| 9. Dr. Eugene Thomas Maleska (’37, MA ’40) | Litt.D. | 06/05/63 |
| 10. Ms. Margot M. Studer | Litt.D. | 06/03/64 |
| 11. Ms. Esther Eggersten Peterson | Litt.D. | 10/06/64 |
| 12. Mr. Alex Quaison-Sackey | Litt.D. | 10/05/65 |
| 13. Mr. Harold S. Osborne | Litt.D. | 06/08/66 |
| 14. Dr. Harry A. Sprague | Litt.D. | 06/08/66 |
| 15. Mr. Charles W. Hamilton | Litt.D. | 06/07/67 |
| 16. Mr. Edward E. Booher | Litt.D. | 06/02/68 |
| 17. Mr. Bayard Rustin | Litt.D. | 06/02/68 |
| 18. Dr. Edward James Meade, Jr. (’54, MA ’56) | Litt.D. | 06/01/69 |
| 19. Colonel Edwin E. Aldrin | Litt.D. | 09/06/69 |
| 20. Mr. Edgar Chalfant Bye | Litt.D. | 05/31/70 |
| 21. Mr. Aloysius Michael Sullivan | Litt.D. | 05/31/70 |
| 22. Dr. Karl J. Gruber | Litt.D. | 10/11/70 |
| 23. Mr. Gustav Scherbaum | Litt.D. | 10/11/70 |
| 24. Judge Frederick B. Lacey | LL.D. | 05/31/71 |
| 25. Ms. Katherine K. Neuberger | LL.D. | 05/29/72 |
| 26. Mr. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger | L.H.D. | 05/29/72 |
| 27. Mr. John Quincy Adams, III | L.H.D. | 06/10/73 |
| 28. Mr. Herbert J. Stern | Litt.D. | 06/10/73 |
| 29. Dr. Walter Lincoln Hawkins | LL.D. | 06/09/74 |
| 30. Mr. Friedrich Niederl | LL.D. | 06/09/74 |
| 31. Ms. Barbara Ann Wolf (’28) | Litt.D. | 06/09/74 |
| 32. Dr. Margaret C. Brown | LL.D. | 06/01/75 |
| 33. Dr. Rene Jules Dubos | LL.D. | 06/01/75 |
| 34. Bishop John Wesley Lord (’22) | LL.D. | 06/01/75 |
| 35. Mr. John Thomas Shawcross (’48) | L.H.D. | 06/01/75 |
| 36. Dr. Eileen Lynch Corcoran (’38) | Litt.D. | 06/30/76 |
| 37. Dr. E. DeAlton Partridge | LL.D. | 06/30/76 |
| 38. Dr. James Patrick Shenton | Litt.D. | 06/30/76 |
| 39. Reverend Thomas Edward Davis | LL.D. | 05/26/77 |
| 40. Dr. Edythe Jones Gaines | LL.D. | 05/26/77 |
| 41. Mr. Meyer Melnikoff (’37) | LL.D. | 05/26/77 |
| 42. Mr. Richard Taylor Dugan (’40) | LL.D. | 05/24/78 |
| 43. Dr. Hans Joachim Hillerbrand | LL.D. | 05/24/78 |
| 44. Ms. Licia Albanese | Litt.D. | 05/23/79 |
| 45. Mr. Angelo Robert Cali (’36) | LL.D. | 05/23/79 |
| 46. Dr. Leonard Solomon Silk | LL.D. | 05/23/79 |
| 47. Mr. Gerald A. LeBoff | LL.D. | 05/28/80 |
| 48. Dr. Calvin B. T. Lee | LL.D. | 05/28/80 |
| 49. Dr. Nathan Weiss (’48) | LL.D. | 05/28/80 |
| 50. Dr. Alexander Goetz | LL.D. | 09/22/80 |
| 51. Judge Thomas Nowotny | LL.D. | 09/22/80 |
| 52. Mr. Robert J. Davis | LL.D. | 05/27/81 |
| 53. Dr. Allan Morehead (’34) | LL.D. | 05/27/81 |
| 54. Dr. Thomas H. Richardson | LL.D. | 05/27/81 |
| 55. Senator Bill Bradley | LL.D. | 05/26/82 |
| 56. Dr. Herman Sokol (’37) | LL.D. | 05/26/82 |
| 57. Mr. William (Count) Basie | LL.D. | 12/12/82 |
| 58. Governor Thomas Kean | LL.D. | 05/25/83 |
| 59. Dr. Ernest B. Yeager (’45) | LL.D. | 05/25/83 |
| 60. Dr. John Brademas | LL.D. | 09/20/83 |
| 61. Governor Richard J. Hughes | LL.D. | 09/20/83 |
| 62. Mr. Peter Drucker | LL.D. | 04/24/84 |
| 63. Senator Matthew Feldman | LL.D. | 05/23/84 |
| 64. Mr. Henry Otto Pollak | LL.D. | 05/23/84 |
| 65. Mr. George Irving Shirley | LL.D. | 05/23/84 |
| 66. Judge Joseph H. Rodriguez | LL.D. | 05/23/85 |
| 67. Dr. Raymond Warren Young (’45) | LL.D. | 05/23/85 |
| 68. Mr. Jerome Hines | LL.D. | 05/29/86 |
| 69. Mr. Larry Doby | L.H.D. | 05/28/87 |
| 70. Congresswoman Marge Roukema (’51) | LL.D. | 05/28/87 |
| 71. Mayor Sharpe James (’58) | LL.D. | 05/24/88 |
| 72. Senator Wynona Lipman | LL.D. | 05/24/88 |
| 73. Ms. Miriam Colon | Litt.D. | 05/24/89 |
| 74. Dr. David W. D. Dickson | LL.D. | 05/24/89 |
| 75. Dr. Ernest M. May | LL.D. | 05/24/89 |
| 76. Ms. Melba Moore (’70) | Litt.D. | 05/25/90 |
| 77. Dr. Daniela Camhy | Litt.D. | 05/29/90 |
| 78. Mayor Alfred Stingl | LL.D. | 05/29/90 |
| 79. Mr. Ben H. Love | L.H.D. | 05/29/91 |
| 80. Mr. Robert C. Winters | L.H.D. | 05/29/91 |
| 81. Dr. John I. Goodlad | Litt.D. | 05/27/92 |
| 82. Mr. Borden R. Putnam | LL.D. | 05/27/92 |
| 83. Mrs. Margaret M. Sokol (’38) | L.H.D. | 05/27/92 |
| 84. Dr. Israel Tribble, Jr. (’62) | Litt.D. | 05/27/92 |
| 85. Governor James J. Florio | LL.D. | 05/26/93 |
| 86. Mr. Gordon Parks | Litt.D. | 05/25/94 |
| 87. Governor Christine Todd Whitman | LL.D. | 05/25/94 |
| 88. Dr. Robert A. Altman | LL.D. | 05/18/95 |
| 89. Dr. Mathilde Krim | Sc.D. | 05/18/95 |
| 90. Mr. John Tugwell | LL.D. | 05/18/95 |
| 91. Mr. Mort Pye | Litt.D. | 06/26/95 |
| 92. Mr. Lawrence (Yogi) Berra | L.H.D. | 05/16/96 |
| 93. Mr. Edward Leshowitz (’36) | L.H.D. | 05/16/96 |
| 94. Mr. Bruce Willis | Litt.D. | 05/16/96 |
| 95. Chief Justice Deborah Poritz | LL.D. | 05/16/97 |
| 96. Dr. George Walker | Litt.D. | 05/16/97 |
| 97. Mr. Josh Weston | L.H.D. | 05/16/97 |
| 98. Mr. Samuel D. Mills, Jr. (’80) | L.H.D. | 05/15/98 |
| 99. Mr. Floyd Hall | L.H.D. | 05/14/99 |
| 100. Mr. Paul Plishka | D.F.A. | 05/14/99 |
| 101. Rev. William H. Gray III | LL.D.. | 05/22/00 |
| 102. Dr. Antonia Novello | Sc.D. | 05/22/00 |
| 103. Rev. DeForest B. Soaries, Jr. | LL.D. | 05/22/00 |
| 104. Mr. Gordon Bethune | L.H.D. | 05/25/01 |
| 105. Mr. Raymond G. Chambers | L.H.D. | 05/25/01 |
| 106. Ms. Emily (Cissy) Houston | L.H.D. | 05/25/01 |
| 107. Ms. Elizabeth Christopherson | L.H.D. | 09/13/01 |
| 108. Governor James E. McGreevey | LL.D. | 05/24/02 |
| 109. Mr. Charles Peete Rose, Jr. | Litt.D. | 05/24/02 |
| 110. Dr. John J. McMullen | Litt.D. | 05/09/03 |
| 111. Dr. Irvin D. Reid | LL.D. | 05/09/03 |
| 112. Mr. Kevin Smith | Litt.D. | 05/14/04 |
| 113. Mr. Joseph Coccia, Jr. & Mrs. Elda Coccia |
L.H.D. | 05/15/04 |
| 114. Mr. Alec Baldwin | Litt.D. | 05/21/04 |
| 115. Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey | Sc.D. | 05/16/05 |
| 116. Mr. Murray L. Cole | LL.D. | 05/20/05 |
| 117. Dr. Lawrence P. Goldman | Litt.D. | 05/12/06 |
| 118. Attorney General Zulima V. Farber | LL.D. | 05/13/06 |
| 119. Dr. Sylvia A. Earle | Sc.D. | 05/15/06 |
| 120. Dr. Nel Noddings | Litt.D. | 05/16/06 |
| 121. Governor Richard J. Codey | LL.D. | 05/19/06 |
| 122. Dr. Yu Lizhong | Sc.D. | 05/19/06 |
| 123. Judge José L. Fuentes | LL.D. | 05/10/07 |
| 124. Ms. Bobbi Brown | L.H.D. | 05/11/07 |
| 125. Commissioner Kevin M. Ryan | LL.D. | 05/12/07 |
| 126. Dr. Alan I. Leshner | Sc.D. | 05/14/07 |
| 127. Dr. Maxine Greene | Litt.D. | 05/15/07 |
| 128. Ms. Whoopi Goldberg | Litt.D. | 05/18/07 |
| 129. Judge Julio M. Fuentes | LL.D. | 05/14/08 |
| 130. Mr. Bill T. Jones | Litt.D. | 05/15/08 |
| 131. Mr. Ronald M. Califre | Sc.D. | 05/16/08 |
| 132. Ms. Amy B. Mansue | L.H.D. | 05/17/08 |
| 133. Dr. Frank R. Alvarez | Litt.D. | 05/18/08 |
| 134. Mr. Craig Newmark | L.H.D. | 05/19/07 |
| 135. Dr. Jane Holl Lute (’78) | LL.D. | 05/23/08 |
| 136. Mr. Mikhail Baryshnikov | Litt.D. | 05/23/08 |
| 137. Governor Jon S. Corzine | LL.D. | 05/23/08 |
| 138. Dr. Kornel Terplan | Litt.D. | 05/15/09 |
| 139. Ms. Lisa Perez Jackson | Sc.D. | 05/16/09 |
| 140. Mr. James M. Cracchiolo | L.H.D. | 05/16/09 |
| 141. Mr. Jonathan H. Alter | Litt.D. | 05/17/09 |
| 142. Rev. Dr. Audrey V. Leef (’43) | Litt.D. | 05/17/09 |
| 143. Ms. Lucille E. Davy | LL.D. | 05/18/09 |
| 144. Mr. John J. Cali | Litt.D. | 05/22/09 |
| 145. Mayor Cory A. Booker | LL.D. | 05/22/09 |
| 146. Mr. Charles L. Magliaro (’54, MA ’58) | Litt.D. | 05/13/10 |
| 147. Mr. Bruce “Cousin Brucie” Morrow | Litt.D. | 05/15/10 |
| 148. Mr. John P. Wallace | L.H.D. | 05/15/10 |
| 149. Mr. Malcolm Stevenson “Steve” Forbes, Jr. | L.H.D. | 05/15/10 |
| 150. Dr. Richard Axel | Sc.D. | 05/16/10 |
| 151. Ms. Fahima Vorgetts | LL.D. | 05/16/10 |
| 152. Mr. James Bradley | Litt.D. | 05/21/10 |
| 153. Mr. Richard D. Parsons | L.H.D. | 05/13/11 |
| 154. Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs | LL.D. | 05/14/11 |
| 155. Mr. Byron Pitts | Litt.D. | 05/14/11 |
| 156. Mr. Raul de Molina | Litt.D. | 05/20/11 |
| 157. Dr. Warren T. Farrell | Litt.D. | 05/20/11 |
| 158. Mr. John T. Riordan | L.H.D. | 05/20/11 |
| 159. Mr. Brian Lehrer | Litt.D. | 05/12/12 |
| 160. Dr. Gene E. Likens | Sc.D. | 05/12/12 |
| 161. Mr. Dennis Bone | L.H.D. | 05/13/12 |
| 162. Mr. Jacques D’Amboise | Litt.D. | 05/13/12 |
| 163. Mr. Michael E. Cryor | L.H.D. | 05/14/12 |
| 164. Dr. Patrick T. McCarthy | LL.D. | 05/14/12 |
| 165. Ms. Victoria Reggie Kennedy | LL.D. | 05/18/12 |
| 166. Ms. S. Epatha Merkerson | LL.D. | 05/24/13 |
| 167. Mr. James Patterson | LL.D. | 05/23/14 |
| 168. Chief Justice Stuart Rabner | LL.D. | 05/20/15 |
| 169. Mr. Don Garber | Litt.D. | 05/25/16 |
| 170. Mr. Frankie Faison | D.F.A. | 01/23/17 |
| 171. Mr. Carlos Rodriguez | L.H.D. | 05/22/17 |
| 172. Mr. Ras J. Baraka | L.H.D. | 05/25/17 |
| 173. Mr. Savion Glover | D.F.A. | 05/25/17 |
| 174. Senator Loretta Weinberg | Litt.D. | 01/14/18 |
| 175. Mr. John Schrieber | D.F.A. | 05/22/18 |
| 176. Lieutenant Governor Sheila Oliver | Litt.D. | 05/25/18 |
| 177. Ms. Judy Woodruff | Litt.D. | 01/19/19 |
| 178. Mr. Ralph Izzo | SC.D. | 05/21/19 |
| 179. Mr. Kevin P. Bradley | LL.D. | 05/21/19 |
| 180. NJ Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal | LL.D. | 01/17/20 |
Degree abbreviations and definitions
| Degree | Definition |
|---|---|
| Litt.D. | Doctor of Letters |
| LL.D. | Doctor of Laws |
| L.H.D. | Doctor of Humanities or Humane Letters |
| Sc.D. | Doctor of Science |
| D.F.A. | Doctor of Fine Arts |