2025 Honorary Degree Recipients
2025 Commencement Speaker Michelle Johnson, M.A., U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General, will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters during the ceremony.
David L. Anderson, Ph.D., former 51 Chairman of the Board of Trustees, will also receive a honorary Doctor of Humane Letters during the ceremony.
Previous Honorary Degree Recipients
2024
- Bernie Sanders (speaker), U.S. Senator from Vermont, Doctor of Laws
- Arthur “Art” P. Girard, Business Leader and Philanthropist, Doctor of Laws
2023
- Ronald A. Crutcher, D.M.A., Doctor of Humane Letters
- Elizabeth A. McLellan, M.S.N, M.P.H., D.M.S. ‘19, Doctor of Humane Letters
2022
- Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D., Doctor of Humane Letters
- David Evans Shaw, M.B.A., Doctor of Science
2021
- Nirav D. Shah, M.D., J.D., director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)