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An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases honoris causa ("for the sake of the honour") or ad honorem ("to the honour"). The degree is typically a doctorate or, less commonly, a master's degree, and may be ...
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Doctor of Humane Letters. The degree of Doctor of Humane Letters ( Latin: Litterarum humanarum doctor; DHumLitt, DHL, or LHD) is an honorary degree awarded to those who have distinguished themselves through humanitarian and philanthropic contributions to society. [1]
Originally the second of three degrees in sequence – Legum Baccalaureus (LL.B., last conferred by an American law school in 1970); LL.M.; and Legum Doctor (LL.D.) or Doctor of Laws, which has only been conferred in the United States as an honorary degree but is an earned degree in other countries. In American legal academia, the LL.M. was ...
Title of honor. A U.S. Navy commander giving a hospitalized child his cap, bestowing her the title of "honorary ship's commander for a day". A title of honor or honorary title is a title bestowed upon individuals or organizations as an award in recognition of their merits. Sometimes the title bears the same or nearly the same name as a title of ...
Honorary title (academic) Honorary titles (professor, reader, lecturer) in academia may be conferred on persons in recognition of contributions by a non-employee or by an employee beyond regular duties. This practice primarily exists in the UK and Germany, as well as in many of the universities and colleges of the United States, Australia, Hong ...
Honorary degree: Distinguished Professor (in Pashto لوی پوهاند) Term of address in general: ostād or استاد. Albania. Ranks in universities of Albania are listed below according to the Ministry of Education (Albania). These ranks are issued stepwise by the MoHE after some procedures, a period of service and conditions.
DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY BUT MOSTLY JUST JOBS. BY SEBASTIAN MURDOCK. LANGHORNE, Pennsylvania -- Sgt. First Class Rocky Weaver, 32, looked out on the floor of a suburban military recruitment center outside Philadelphia. He eyed the freshly graduated teens still shuffling their feet and smiling awkwardly, who had turned up to enlist in the U.S. Army.