Public relations management/Honorary award management, University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

Public relations management

Honorary award management

Faculty

Senate

Clerk of Senate

Principal

No evidence for the award of honorary degrees has been found before 1709, when a number of honorary doctorates were awarded by the Faculty. Later, and certainly by 1730, the Senate had assumed responsibility for the award of honorary degrees. Until 1856, such degrees were conferred on a motion made and seconded in the Senate, of which notice was usually given at the meeting preceding the one at which it was determined. In 1856, it was decided that a committee of Senate was to be appointed at the commencement of each session with the responsibility for considering in the first instance all proposals for conferring honorary degrees. The committee was to take into account whether the proposed recipient had been educated at a university or held a degree, whether he was the author of any work of acknowledged merit, whether his occupation and pursuits were such as tended to advance the progress of learning and science, and whether his character and position in society warranted the conferring of the degree. The committee reported the names of suitable candidates to the Senate. In 1894, the granting of honorary degrees was regulated by ordinance no.41, general no.13 by the commissioners under the Universities (Scotland) Act of 1889. Separate committees were now to be appointed to consider candidates for the degree of doctor of divinity (DD) and doctor of laws (LLD).

All the administration connected with the award of honorary degrees, including the organisation of the award ceremony, was carried out by the Clerk of Senate at the direction of the Senate. This remains the case today. At the award ceremony, the degrees were conferred by the University's Principal.

Faculty minutes 1642-1859 ref: GB 0248 GUA 26621, 26626, 26631, 26634-26635, 26647-26650, 26690-26703
The Faculty minutes include entries relating to the award of honorary degrees.

Album Universitatis 1697-1763 Ref: GB 0248 GUA 26659 (Clerk's Press 45)
The album includes a list of those awarded honorary degrees 1709-1745.

Registers of honorary graduates 1730-1986 Ref: GB 0248 GUA R 1/13
 

Senate minutes 1730 to date Ref: GB 0248 GUA SEN 1/1
The Senate minutes include entries relating to the award of honorary degrees.

Honorary graduation papers 1731 to date ref: GB 0248 GUA 3772-3782, 3790, 3937, 4019-4057, 4059-4111, 4118-4278, 4284, 4295, 4602-4604, 4607-4608, 5211, 21796, 21805, 21868-21870, 22231-22376, 24111-24191, 24659, 24818, 25228, 29001-29022, 30338-30348, 32000, 32319-32327, 32861, 58404-58405, 58435, 58598, 58669, 58677-58680, 62144, 66042, 66047, 74050, 74062, GB 0248 ACC 44
Papers include nominations, letters of acceptance, graduation ceremony programmes and orations.

Papers of Duncan Macfarlan, Principal, University of Glasgow 1823-1857 Ref: GB 0248 DC 9
The papers include letters relating to the conferment of honorary degrees.

Calendars 1826-1998 Ref: GB 0248 GUA SEN 10
The calendars include lists of honorary graduates.

Senate Committee on Honorary Degrees minutes 1856-1869 ref: GB 0248 GUA 26827
 

Clerk of Senate's letterbooks 1876-1911 ref: GB 0248 GUA 17069-17098
The letterbooks include letters to candidates for the award of honorary degrees.

University of Glasgow (general) press cuttings 1886-1993 Ref: GB 0248 GUA IP 6/1
The series includes cuttings relating to honorary degree awarded.

Annual reports 1964-2000 Ref: GB 0248 GUA C 5/1
The annual reports include lists of honorary degrees awarded.

File of presscuttings relating to honorary degrees 1977-1982 Ref: GB 0248 GUA IP 6/2/37
 

File of presscuttings relating to honorary degrees 1983-1987 Ref: GB 0248 GUA IP 6/2/38
 

Title of function/activity taken from Elizabeth Parker's Function Activity Model (report compiled for JISC). Function and activity description compiled according to GASHE's Standard for Creating Function and Activity Descriptions.

Student administration/Award ceremony administration, University of Glasgow