HUC-JIR Alumni Honorary Doctorate Information
Please return this document by email to Zelda Goldsmith at
1. Name: (on line provided below) Male: Female:
· Your name (with or without middle name or middle initial) as you would like it to appear on your Honorary Doctorate (Please note: Our academic protocol is to include names without titles or degrees)
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· Your name (with or without middle name or middle initial) exactly as you would like it to appear on the invitation and/or press release (please indicate additional academic degree titles after your name, i.e. Ph.D., R.J.E.)
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2. Contact Information
· Name of your institution:
· Current position:
· If you are currently not employed or serve as an emeritus, please specify how you would like to be identified:
· E-mail address:
· Work address:
· Work phone:
· Work fax:
· Home address:
· Home phone:
___ Please indicate with an “X” on the line provide, if any of the information above has recently changed so that we update your file in Online Alumni Directory. To check your contact information in the Online Alumni Directory go to http://huc.edu/alumni/alumni-directory. Please email if you require the user id and password.
3. Biographical Information
· Please attach a resume that includes all the degrees you have earned and the professional positions you have held since graduating from HUC-JIR (include positions in Jewish community and in other fields).
· Professional Contributions
During the ceremony you will be presented with an honorary doctorate that includes a citation written for you. Please help us understand your professional contributions that you value the most. Include the various ways that you have served the Jewish people. Feel free to include aspects of your every-day professional life, any special projects or initiatives in which you have been/are involved and/or specific honors or accomplishments. You may wish to include creative innovations you have introduced, professional or volunteer organizations that you have served with dedication, articles or books you have written or recordings you have made, or awards that you have received. Please include the ways have you supported or maintained contact with HUC-JIR. Please feel free to refer back to the Alumni Profile you sent to us a number of months ago.
4. Informing your institution
Can we contact your institution about this honor? If so, please let us know whom to contact.
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Name Position/Role email address phone number
5. Media Contact Information
Receiving an Honorary Doctorate is an important personal milestone. The awarding of this degree is also an opportunity for the College-Institute to share with the greater Jewish community the successes of its graduates and to “promote service to the Jewish community” as a meaningful professional option. To these ends, we would like to send press releases that recognize you, as well as describe the College-Institute, its history and programs, to newspapers (Jewish and secular), publications and organizations in your community.
Please attach a short bio (250 words or less) that will accompany such a press release in the attached form, or email the bio to me at . Also, attach a list of those local media outlets (full names and web addresses, if possible) in which you think the press release should appear.
6. Invitations
Please tell us how many invitations (up to 25) you would like us to send you?
7. Robes
If you are receiving your degree in New York and do not have a black robe and would like us to order one for you, please tell us your height. The cost per robe will be $36. Please remit your checks payable to HUC-JIR, One West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012, att: Harriet Lewis
Please return this document by email to Zelda Goldsmith at