Honorary Degrees Since 1702
| Name | Degree |
Year |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Suenens,Cardinal L.J. | Doctor of Divinity | 1980 | |
| Thompson, John Griggs | Doctor of Science | 1980 | |
| Veil, Simone | Doctor of Laws | 1980 | |
| Chase, Lucia | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1980 | |
| Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich | Doctor of Music | 1980 | |
| Braudel, Fernand | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1981 | |
| Brown, Sterling Allen | Doctor of Letters | 1981 | |
| Frankenthaler, Helen | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1981 | |
| Harish-Chandra, | Doctor of Science | 1981 | |
| Hufstefler, Shirley M. | Doctor of Laws | 1981 | |
| Keith, Damon J. | Doctor of Laws | 1981 | |
| Lee, Sherman E. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1981 | |
| Mosteller, Frederick | Doctor of Social Science | 1981 | |
| Perlman, Itzhak | Doctor of Music | 1981 | |
| Urquhart, Brian | Doctor of Laws | 1981 | |
| Webber, George W. | Doctor of Divinity | 1981 | |
| Wiesel, Elie | Doctor of Letters | 1981 | |
| Yanofsky, Charles | Doctor of Science | 1981 | |
| McClintock, Barbara | Doctor of Science | 1982 | |
| Merrill, James | Doctor of Letters | 1982 | |
| O'Donnell, Maureen V. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1982 | |
| Verity, Jr.,C. William | Doctor of Laws | 1982 | |
| Wilson, J. Tuzo | Doctor of Science | 1982 | |
| Boiteux, Marcel P. | Doctor of Social Science | 1982 | |
| Goodman, Benny | Doctor of Music | 1982 | |
| Habib, Philip C. | Doctor of Laws | 1982 | |
| Henderson, Virginia | Doctor of Science | 1982 | |
| Jones, James Earl | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1982 | |
| Laughlin, James | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1982 | |
| Bernardin, Joseph, Cardinal | Doctor of Divinity | 1983 | |
| Cutler, Lloyd N. | Doctor of Laws | 1983 | |
| Fugard, Athol | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1983 | |
| Higginbotham, A. Leon | Doctor of Laws | 1983 | |
| Knox, Bernard M.W. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1983 | |
| Lewis, Sir W. Arthur | Doctor of Social Science | 1983 | |
| MacCready, Paul B. | Doctor of Science | 1983 | |
| Sherlock, Dame Shella | Doctor of Science | 1983 | |
| Streep, Meryl | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1983 | |
| Boesak, Allan A. | Doctor of Divinity | 1984 | |
| Broder, David S. | Doctor of Humane Letters | 1984 | |
| Cohen, Gerson D. | Doctor of Divinity | 1984 | |
| Hersey, John | Doctor of Letters | 1984 | |
| Koh, Tommy T.B. | Doctor of Laws | 1984 | |
| Leder, Philip | Doctor of Science | 1984 | |
| Opel, John R. | Doctor of Laws | 1984 | |
| Rivlin, Alice M. | Doctor of Social Science | 1984 | |
| Rustin, Bayard | Doctor of Laws | 1984 | |
| Tallchief, Maria | Doctor of Fine Arts | 1984 | |
| Volcker, Paul A. | Doctor of Laws | 1984 | |
| Peters, Ellen Ash | Doctor of Laws | 1985 |