Chancellor of Syracuse University Considering Revoking Rudy Giuliani’s Honorary Degree
“because as an attorney and private citizen he challenged some of the results of the 2020 presidential election”
Th left wants to un-person Giuliani because he is an ally of Trump and because he questioned the outcome of the 2020 election.
The College Fix reports:
Syracuse chancellor considers revoking Giuliani’s honorary degree
The process for taking back an honorary degree given to Rudy Giuliani by Syracuse University continues to move forward, after the chancellor asked the board of trustees for help on how to revoke it.
Chancellor Kent Syverud updated the Student Association at its August 29 meeting on the ongoing controversy. The student government passed a resolution during the spring semester that demanded revocation of Giuliani’s degree because as an attorney and private citizen he challenged some of the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Syverud told the student government that the board “required the chancellor to research how peer institutions revoke honorary degrees over the summer and recommend a standard procedure,” according to The Daily Orange, Syracuse’s campus newspaper.
The university’s law school awarded Giuilani an honorary doctorate in 1989 for his work as a federal prosecutor to bring down crime in New York City, which included prosecutions against the “five families” that comprised the Mafia.
Syverud wants to see a vote by this November from the board of trustees on taking back Giulani’s degree.
The College Fix emailed Chancellor Syverud’s office but did not receive a response to an inquiry sent in the past week that asked if there were any updates regarding Giuliani’s honorary degree.
One student at the university criticized the move to revoke the honorary degree.
“The push to rescind Giuliani’s degree is just more naked partisanship,” Augustus LeRoux told The Fix via email. He is also the chair of the New York Federation of College Republicans.
“At Syracuse, we suspend professors who criticize the CCP, and elevate those that champion Al-Qaeda,” he said.
“The board of trustees choosing to rescind the degree would be disappointing, but par for the course,” he wrote. “The left’s only modes of protest are to erase, tear down, and destroy– and SU has historically been just fine with that.”
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Revoking an honorary degree. Boy! That’ll teach him!
Yes, considering Corinne Brown can get one, they aren’t worth the paper they are printed on. Maybe you can sell it for the frame?
Actually, that’s kinda brilliant.
I’d love to see an auction for a revoked honorary degree go viral!
Oh, do it and get it over with… so when the Republicans take back the government they can deliver you your annual appropriation in the form of a gumball machine for your front lobby, and we can all move on to much more important things than supporting you twits and your unicorn fantasies.
Syracuse is private, so they get very little from the government.
Pretty soon these private woke unis will reach cult status.
Hmm.
In 2013, Nicholas Kristof received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.
If this is the same Kristof of NYT “fame,” didn’t he support the Russian collusion hoax against President Trump? Is that not tacit questioning of Pres. Trump’s win in the 2016 election?
Will he be ousted as well?
Giuliani received the honorary degree in 1989, most likely for his work as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989.
When it wasn’t the political purgatory it is now.
How petty. As if anyone (including Giuliani) actually cares about this.
At best, it’s an act that defines the leadership of Syracuse University far better than it says anything about Giuliani.