Honorary Degree Recipients

Name	Degree	Year	Campus	Class
Troy Pearley	Doctor of Humane Letters	2025	Brockport	1992
Christine Lavin	Doctor of Fine Arts	2020	Brockport	1973
Bernice “Bunny” Skirboll	Doctor of Humane Letters	2019	Brockport	1972
Gary Mervis	Doctor of Humane Letters	2019	Brockport	1971
Barbara Bashaw	Doctor of Fine Arts	2015	Brockport	1989
Thomas Markusen	Doctor of Fine Arts	2014	Brockport	N/A
Jane E. Clark	Doctor of Science	2013	Brockport	1968
Robert S. Gold	Doctor of Science	2012	Brockport	1969/1971
Stuart Krieger	Doctor of Humane Letters	2012	Brockport	1973
William H. Heyen	Doctor of Humane Letters	2011	Brockport	1961
Anne Wilkes Tucker	Doctor of Fine Arts	2011	Brockport	N/A
Nancy A. Hewitt	Doctor of Letters	2010	Brockport	1974
Walter J. Oleszek	Doctor of Laws	2010	Brockport	1963
John R. Ryan	Doctor of Humane Letters	2008	Brockport	N/A
Garth Fagan	Doctor of Fine Arts	2007	Brockport	N/A
Rex Nettleford	Doctor of Fine Arts	2005	Brockport	N/A
Eugene H. Spafford	Doctor of Science	2005	Brockport	1979
Maxine Kumin	Doctor of Letters	2003	Brockport	N/A
Clinton R. Van Zandt	Doctor of Letters	2003	Brockport	1982
Elizabeth Streb	Doctor of Fine Arts	2002	Brockport	1972
Aaron Lansky	Doctor of Letters	2000	Brockport	N/A
Martha Nussbaum	Doctor of Humane Letters	2000	Brockport	N/A
Rita Dove	Doctor of Letters	1999	Brockport	N/A
Li Young Lee	Doctor of Humane Letters	1998	Brockport	1981
Wendell Castle	Doctor of Fine Arts	1997	Brockport	N/A
Richard D. Heffner	Doctor of Letters	1997	Brockport	N/A
Albert Paley	Doctor of Fine Arts	1997	Brockport	N/A
Lee P. Brown	Doctor of Laws	1995	Brockport	N/A
Lawrence O. Gostin	Doctor of Laws	1994	Brockport	1971
Daniel Inouye	Doctor of Laws	1992	Brockport	N/A
Faith Ringgold	Doctor of Fine Arts	1992	Brockport	N/A
John I. Goodlad	Doctor of Humane Letters	1991	Brockport	N/A
Daniel Nagrin	Doctor of Fine Arts	1991	Brockport	N/A
Arthur R. Ashe Jr.	Doctor of Humane Letters	1990	Brockport	N/A
Florence Greenhouse Jacoby	Doctor of Science	1990	Brockport	N/A
Richard E. Hallgreen	Doctor of Science	1989	Brockport	N/A
William Alan Pearce	Doctor of Science	1989	Brockport	N/A
Stanley Kunitz	Doctor of Humane Letters	1987	Brockport	N/A
Nelson Mandela	Doctor of Humane Letters	1987	Brockport	N/A
Jerre Mangione	Doctor of Humane Letters	1987	Brockport	N/A
Joyce Carol Oates	Doctor of Letters	1987	Brockport	N/A
Susan Stamberg	Doctor of Humane Letters	1987	Brockport	N/A
Beaumont Newhall	Doctor of Fine Arts	1986	Brockport	N/A
Abraham M. Rosenthal	Doctor of Humane Letters	1984	Brockport	N/A
Shirley Chisholm	Doctor of Humane Letters	1983	Brockport	N/A
Barber B. Conable, Jr.	Doctor of Laws	1985	Brockport / Genesee	N/A