The University Senate
of Michigan Technological University
Proposal 25-08
“Amendment to Proposal
2-04: Honorary Posthumous Degrees”
Definition
An Honorary
Posthumous Degree (HPD) may be awarded by the University to recognize progress
toward a degree when that progress is terminated by the death of a
student. The award is a
in recognition of the student’s effort
goals and also of the personal and
financial support of the student’s extended family and friends, to commemorate their connection to the Michigan Tech community.
Policy
To be
recommended for an HPD, a student must have been in good academic standing
pursuing a degree at the time of
death. An HPD will be awarded in the
major field only.
Procedure
Normally,
the student’s academic advisor or the student’s family will initiate the
request for awarding an HPD. An HPD will
be conferred upon recommendation from the deceased student’s major academic
department or school, followed by the approval of the University. The recommendation should be submitted as a
written request to the provost’s office, together with documentation that the requirement
given above has been satisfied student
was pursuing a degree at Michigan Tech.
Guidelines
for the submission of the recommendation, and the procedures for the actual
awarding of the degree, will be developed by the provost.
Adopted by Senate as Emergency Submission: 2 April 2008
Approved by Administration: 7 April 2008