Comments on: ASU Honorary Degree Recipients Listed http://getangrywithme.com/2009/04/asu-honorary-degree-recipients-listed/ balls-to-the wall social and media commentary by a writer with no P's and Q's to mind Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:22:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike http://getangrywithme.com/2009/04/asu-honorary-degree-recipients-listed/comment-page-1/#comment-25895 Mike Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:45:35 +0000 http://getangrywithme.com/?p=1448#comment-25895 Why does it work you up when honorary degrees shouldn't even exist in the first place? I don't know if it makes you feel any better but the vast majority of them go to large donors or are used as a bargaining chip to get somebody to speak at an engagement when the cash isn't available. The rest are basically given out as advertisements for that school. I think ASU decided that they were from the same state as McCain and knew the fallout of giving him an honorary degree was worse in the long term than trying to advertise by giving it to him. Its actually pretty rare for a university to give them out for actual experience in the field of study. That is why a lot of "good" universities like MIT, Standford, Cornell, etc don't believe in giving out honorary degrees. You should learn about them before you decide who should and should not get one. Why does it work you up when honorary degrees shouldn’t even exist in the first place? I don’t know if it makes you feel any better but the vast majority of them go to large donors or are used as a bargaining chip to get somebody to speak at an engagement when the cash isn’t available. The rest are basically given out as advertisements for that school. I think ASU decided that they were from the same state as McCain and knew the fallout of giving him an honorary degree was worse in the long term than trying to advertise by giving it to him. Its actually pretty rare for a university to give them out for actual experience in the field of study. That is why a lot of “good” universities like MIT, Standford, Cornell, etc don’t believe in giving out honorary degrees. You should learn about them before you decide who should and should not get one.

]]> By: genders http://getangrywithme.com/2009/04/asu-honorary-degree-recipients-listed/comment-page-1/#comment-24622 genders Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:36:24 +0000 http://getangrywithme.com/?p=1448#comment-24622 You know, it makes me ashamed to live in Arizona (I'll bet you can think of other reasons for shame here :). ASU really is asking for some comeuppance; while I have no prejudices in education, as soon as I heard about this my reaction was, "It's a state college, not even an expensive private university!". I'll bet Harvard wouldn't deny him a degree... ...oh, right--they didn't! You know, it makes me ashamed to live in Arizona (I’ll bet you can think of other reasons for shame here :) .

ASU really is asking for some comeuppance; while I have no prejudices in education, as soon as I heard about this my reaction was, “It’s a state college, not even an expensive private university!”. I’ll bet Harvard wouldn’t deny him a degree…

…oh, right–they didn’t!

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