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77-625: The University of Delhi , informally known as Delhi University ( DU , ISO : Dillī Viśvavidyālaya ), is a collegiate research central university located in Delhi , India . It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognised as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) by the University Grants Commission (UGC). The Vice President of India serves as the university chancellor. The university

154-429: A degree may be conferred on an individual for both the nature of the office they hold and the completion of a dissertation. The "dissertation et jure dignitatis" is considered to be a full academic degree. See below . Although higher doctorates such as Doctor of Science , Doctor of Letters , etc. are often awarded honoris causa , in many countries (notably England and Scotland, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand) it

231-517: A deliberate snub , the University of Oxford voted to refuse Margaret Thatcher an honorary degree in protest against her cuts in funding for higher education. This award had previously been given to all prime ministers who had been educated at Oxford. The Philosophy Faculty at Cambridge courted controversy among the academic community in March 1992, when three of its members posed a temporary veto against

308-412: A formal approval and invitation are made; often it is perceived that the system is shrouded in secrecy, and occasionally seen as political and controversial. On occasion, organisations have been awarded honorary doctorates. Honoris causa degrees are not considered of the same standing as substantive degrees earned by the standard academic processes of courses and original research, except perhaps where

385-575: A key architect of the Five-Year Plans of India Sukhamoy Chakravarty ; senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and professor of economics at Columbia University Jagdish Bhagwati ; and Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan , a leading woman figure in the Pakistan Movement and wife of the first Prime Minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan . ISO 15919 ISO 15919

462-643: A large number of major actors and actresses of Indian cinema and theatre including Amitabh Bachchan , Shah Rukh Khan , Manoj Bajpayee , Konkona Sen Sharma , Anurag Kashyap , Arjun Rampal , Imran Zahid , Neha Dhupia , Sakshi Tanwar , Mallika Sherawat , Imtiaz Ali , Huma Qureshi , Siddharth , Sushant Singh Rajput , Shriya Saran , Vishal Bhardwaj , Sandhya Mridul , Aditi Rao Hydari , Shekhar Kapur , Deepa Mehta , Nimrat Kaur , Kabir Khan , Aditi Arya , Sidharth Malhotra and Triptii Dimri . The CWE wrestler Shanky Singh had also pursued B.Com. from Maharaja Agrasen College of Delhi University. Singer Papon

539-613: A policy of not awarding honorary degrees at the behest of its founder, Thomas Jefferson . In 1845, William Barton Rogers , then chairman of the faculty, vigorously defended this policy; in 1861, he founded MIT in Boston and continued this practice. The University of Virginia does annually award Thomas Jefferson Medals in Architecture and in Law, as the highest honours accorded by that institution. The Stanford Alumni Association occasionally awards

616-421: A professor with prior service at another university. Similarly, a jure dignitatis degree is awarded to someone who has demonstrated eminence and scholarship by being appointed to a particular office. Thus, for example, a DD (Doctor of Divinity) might be conferred upon a bishop on the occasion of his consecration, or a judge created LLD (Legum Doctor) or DCL (Doctor of Civil Law) upon his or her appointment to

693-445: A series of racist and antisemitic remarks made by West . By convention, recipients of honorary doctorates do not use the title "Dr" in general correspondence. Recipients are not addressed orally or in writing as "Dr" by other academic institutions – and not correctly addressed as "Dr" in their professional/personal life. They continue to be addressed orally and in writing with the form of address to which they entitled prior to receiving

770-464: A university might be persuaded, or otherwise see fit, to grant exemption from some or all of the usual statutory requirements for the award of a degree. The earliest honorary degree on record was awarded to Lionel Woodville in the late 1470s by the University of Oxford . He later became Bishop of Salisbury . In the late 16th century, the granting of honorary degrees became quite common, especially on

847-496: Is a leading exponent) and the post- Hegelian continental philosophical traditions (with which Derrida's work is more closely associated). In 1996, Southampton College at Long Island University (now a campus of Stony Brook University ) awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Amphibious Letters to Muppet Kermit the Frog . Although some students objected to awarding a degree to a Muppet, Kermit delivered an enjoyable commencement address and

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924-879: Is also done on a merit basis. Only 20 colleges of Delhi University provide hostel facilities to students. The President of India is the Visitor, the Vice President of India is the Chancellor and the Chief Justice of India is the Pro-Chancellor of the university. The Court, the Executive Council, the Academic Council and the Finance Committee are the administrative authorities of the university. The University Court

1001-684: Is an international standard on the romanization of many Brahmic scripts , which was agreed upon in 2001 by a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries. However, the Hunterian transliteration system is the "national system of romanization in India " and a United Nations expert group noted about ISO 15919 that "there is no evidence of the use of the system either in India or in international cartographic products." Another standard, United Nations Romanization Systems for Geographical Names (UNRSGN),

1078-600: Is believed to have awarded the first such diplomas to a group of 20 veterans in May of that year. Honorary degrees are usually awarded at regular graduation ceremonies, at which the recipients are often invited to make a speech of acceptance before the assembled faculty and graduates—an event which often forms the highlight of the ceremony. Generally, universities nominate several persons each year for honorary degrees; these nominations usually go through several committees before receiving approval. Nominees are generally not told until

1155-423: Is formally possible to earn such a degree as a substantive one. This typically involves the submission of a portfolio of peer-refereed research, usually undertaken over a number of years, which has made a substantial contribution to the academic field in question. The university will appoint a panel of examiners who will consider the case and prepare a report recommending whether or not the degree be awarded. Usually,

1232-481: Is no standard keyboard layout for ISO 15919 input but many systems provide a way to select Unicode characters visually. ISO/IEC 14755 refers to this as a screen-selection entry method . Honorary degree An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases honoris causa ("for

1309-434: Is often conferred as a way of honouring a distinguished visitor's contributions to a specific field or to society in general. Honorary doctorates are purely titular degrees in that they confer no rights on the recipient and carry with them no formal academic qualification. As such, it is always expected that such degrees be listed in one's curriculum vitae (CV) as an award , and not in the education section. With regard to

1386-527: Is ranked 6th by National Institutional Ranking Framework 2024. The University of Delhi was established in 1922 was created by act of Central Legislative assembly. Hari Singh Gour served as the university's first Vice-Chancellor from 1922 to 1926. Only four colleges existed in Delhi at the time, which were affiliated to University of the Punjab at that time: All of the above colleges were subsequently affiliated to

1463-663: Is ranked as the best B-school in the country at this level, by India Today. The University of Delhi's 86 academic departments are divided into 16 faculties. In the past, the Faculty of Technology offered courses in Engineering and Technology. The faculty earlier included the Delhi College of Engineering, before it was transformed into the Delhi Technological University and Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology before it

1540-414: Is the supreme authority of the university and has the power to review the acts of the Executive Council and the Academic Council. The Executive Council is the highest executive body of the university. The Academic Council is the highest academic body of the university and is responsible for the maintenance of standards of instruction, education, and examination within the university. It has the right to advise

1617-694: The Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2023, 201–250 in Asia in 2022 and at the same band among emerging economies. It was ranked 601–700 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2023. In India, it was ranked 15 overall by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2024 and 6 among universities. The Delhi University Stadium is a rugby sevens stadium , situated within

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1694-853: The Cluster Innovation Centre , Delhi School of Economics , Delhi School of Journalism and the Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research (ACBR). The South Campus was opened in 1973 as part of the university's expansion plan. It moved to its present location on Benito Juarez Marg, near Dhaula Kuan , in 1984, and covers 69 acres. Its constituent colleges include, Aryabhatta College , Ayurvedic and Unani Tibbia College , Gargi College , Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College , PGDAV College , Jesus and Mary College , Ramanujan College , Maitreyi College , Motilal Nehru College , Motilal Nehru College Evening, Ram Lal Anand College , Sri Venkateswara College , Lady Shri Ram College , Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College ,

1771-534: The Degree of Uncommon Man/Woman to individuals who have given "rare and exceptional service" to the university. Though UCLA has imposed a moratorium on awarding honorary degrees, it honours notable people with the UCLA Medal instead. St. John's College has not granted honorary degrees since 1936, but its alumni association occasionally offers honorary membership to retiring faculty, staff, and other close associates of

1848-609: The Delhi College of Arts and Commerce , the Institute of Home Economics , the College of Vocational Studies , Sri Aurobindo College , Kamala Nehru College , Dyal Singh College , Shaheed Bhagat Singh College and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur College of Nursing . Acharya Narendra Dev College . Some colleges of Delhi University offer hostel facilities to students, but this facility is limited to a specific number of colleges. The allotment of hostels

1925-517: The Open University , grant Doctor of the University (DUniv) degrees to selected nominees, while awarding PhD or EdD degrees to those who have fulfilled the academic requirements. Most American universities award the degrees of LLD ( Doctor of Laws ), LittD ( Doctor of Letters ), LHD ( Doctor of Humane Letters ), ScD ( Doctor of Science ), PedD (Doctor of Pedagogy) and DD ( Doctor of Divinity ) only as honorary degrees. American universities do not have

2002-1114: The Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia ; former Minister of State for Corporate and Minority Affairs Salman Khurshid ; former Former Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal ; former Minister of Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni ; former Union Minister for Disinvestment Arun Shourie ; former Chief Minister of Delhi and Governor of Rajasthan Madan Lal Khurana ; former MLA of Lakhipur Rajdeep Goala ; president of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union Aishe Ghosh and Deputy Chief Minister of Odisha , Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo . DU has educated numerous foreign politicians and heads of state and government including State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi , third President of Malawi Bingu wa Mutharika , former Prime Minister of Nepal Girija Prasad Koirala , sixth President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , sixteenth Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Harini Amarasuriya and two former Prime Ministers of Bhutan , Sangay Ngedup , and Khandu Wangchuk . DU has also produced

2079-524: The University of Massachusetts Amherst also asked the university to revoke the honorary degree that was awarded to Mugabe over twenty years ago, and on 12 June 2008 the trustees unanimously rescinded Robert Mugabe's honorary degree. Michigan State University has also rescinded its honorary degree. In April 2009, Arizona State University's president, Michael M. Crow , refused to give an honorary degree to US President Barack Obama for his lack of adequate qualifying achievements thus far. Also, controversy

2156-465: The University of Massachusetts Amherst awarded him an honorary degree in 2007, in response to protests from students and faculty at the commencement ceremonies. In 2005 at the University of Western Ontario , Henry Morgentaler , a gynecologist involved in a legal case decriminalizing abortion in Canada ( R. v. Morgentaler ), was made an honorary Doctor of Laws. Over 12,000 signatures were acquired asking

2233-401: The transliteration of Sanskrit rather than the transcription of Brahmic scripts. As a notable difference, both international standards, ISO 15919 and UNRSGN transliterate anusvara as ṁ , while ALA-LC and IAST use ṃ for it. However, ISO 15919 provides guidance towards disambiguating between various anusvara situations (such as labial versus dental nasalizations), which is described in

2310-533: The 12th class percentage marks will act as a tie-breaker for students securing the same CUET scores. DU is one of the most sought-after institutions of higher education in India. It also has one of the highest publication counts among Indian universities. The annual honorary degree ceremony of the university has been conferred upon several people, which includes film actor Amitabh Bachchan , former Chief Minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit , cartoonist R. K. Laxman , chemist C. N. R. Rao and former Prime Minister of

2387-597: The Advancement of Science , and the board of regents of the University of the State of New York prohibited any university in the state from conferring an honorary Ph.D. effective in 1897. The number of honorary Ph.D. degrees awarded in the U.S. declined in the 20th century, and surveys by the United States Office of Education found none conferred in 1940 or later years. One of the last known recipients of an honorary Ph.D.

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2464-536: The Better World Society, and others." The awarding of an honorary degree to political figures can prompt protests from faculty or students. In 2001, George W. Bush received an honorary degree from Yale University , where he had earned his bachelor's degree in history in 1968. Some students and faculty chose to boycott the university's 300th commencement . Andrew Card , who served as Bush's Chief of Staff from 2001 to 2006, ultimately chose not to speak when

2541-408: The Executive Council on all academic matters. The Finance Committee is responsible for recommending financial policies, goals, and budgets. Though the colleges are all constituent to the University of Delhi, as it is a collegiate university , depending upon the funding Delhi Colleges broadly fall into three categories: The colleges maintained by universities get 100% deficit maintenance grants while

2618-511: The North Campus. Spread over 10,000 square metres (110,000 sq ft), the stadium has a seating capacity of 2,500 permanent and 7,500 temporary seats. Construction began in 2008 and the stadium was inaugurated in July 2010, ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games . It also includes a training area for netball, boxing, women's wrestling and athletics. After the games the stadium was handed over to

2695-636: The Permata early childhood centres in Malaysia although some alumni and students contended that the government-funded centres are "an abuse of taxpayers' money". Over 50 honorary degrees awarded to Bill Cosby have been rescinded due to allegations and lawsuits of sexual assault. In December 2022, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago rescinded an honorary doctorate degree awarded to rapper Kanye West after

2772-605: The UWO to reverse its decision to honor Morgentaler. Several protest rallies were held, including one on the day the honorary degree was bestowed (a counter petition to support Morgentaler's degree gained 10,000 signatures). In 2007, protesters demanded that the University of Edinburgh revoke an honorary degree awarded to Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe in 1984. The university subsequently revealed plans to review its honorary degree policy and strip certain figures of their honorary degrees who did not deserve them. When considering revoking

2849-470: The United Kingdom Gordon Brown . There are 91 colleges affiliated to the University of Delhi, spread across Delhi . North Campus and South Campus serve as the two main campuses of the university. Zakir Husain Delhi College , which is situated in the central part of New Delhi, is the oldest college in Delhi carrying 327 years of legacy. The North Campus hosts the three founding colleges of

2926-500: The United States, at Amherst, Wesleyan, and Yale, the AM ad eundem degree is conferred upon those who rise to the rank of full professor . At Brown and Harvard the degrees are awarded to those faculty who are granted tenure and the rank of associate professor, usually after approximately eight years of service to the university as an assistant professor or for a shorter amount of time for

3003-611: The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi. During his time, postgraduate teaching courses were introduced and laboratories were established at the university. Members of the faculty included Daulat Singh Kothari in Physics and Panchanan Maheshwari in Botany. Gwyer has been called the "maker of the university". He served as Vice-Chancellor until 1950. The silver jubilee year of the university in 1947 coincided with India's independence, and

3080-523: The applicant must have some strong formal connection with the university in question, for example full-time academic staff, or graduates of several years' standing. Some universities, seeking to differentiate between substantive and honorary doctorates, have a degree (often DUniv, or Doctor of the University) which is used for these purposes, with the other higher doctorates reserved for formally examined academic scholarship. The Archbishop of Canterbury has

3157-402: The approved post-nominal letters. It is not customary, however, for recipients of an honorary doctorate to adopt the prefix 'Dr. ' " It is generally considered improper practice for an honorary doctor to use the formal title of "Doctor," regardless of the background circumstances for the award. Written communications where an honorary doctorate has been awarded may include the letters "h.c." after

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3234-485: The authority to award degrees. These " Lambeth degrees " are sometimes, erroneously, thought to be honorary; however the archbishops have for many centuries had the legal authority (originally as the representatives of the Pope , later confirmed by a 1533 Act of Henry VIII ), to award degrees and regularly do so to people who have either passed an examination or are deemed to have satisfied the appropriate requirements. Between

3311-443: The award to indicate that status. The recipient of an honorary degree may add the degree title postnominally , but it should always be made clear that the degree is honorary by adding "honorary" or "honoris causa" or "h.c." in parentheses after the degree title. In some countries, a person who holds an honorary doctorate may use the title "Doctor" prenominally , abbreviated "Dr.h.c." or "Dr.(h.c.)". Sometimes, they use "Hon" before

3388-423: The awarding of an honorary doctorate to Jacques Derrida ; they and other non-Cambridge proponents of analytic philosophy protested against the granting on the grounds that Derrida's work "did not conform with accepted measures of academic rigor." Although the university eventually passed the motion, the episode did more to draw attention to the continuing antipathy between the analytic (of which Cambridge's faculty

3465-408: The college. Some universities and colleges have been accused of granting honorary degrees in exchange for large donations. Honorary degree recipients, particularly those who have no prior academic qualifications, have sometimes been criticized if they insist on being called "Doctor" as a result of their award, as the honorific may mislead the general public about their qualifications. In 1985, as

3542-588: The colleges run by trusts get 95% deficit grants. The university has 65 colleges that have liberal courses in humanities, social sciences, and science. Twenty-five of these colleges are affiliated with the South Campus while the others are to the North Campus. The total number of colleges under the university is 77 if the colleges that run professional courses are included. Some colleges also offer evening courses. The university includes an undergraduate management college 'Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, which

3619-456: The critic John Ruskin suffered a physical or mental breakdown in 1840 and dropped out of the University of Oxford . He returned to Oxford in 1842, and sat a single exam, and was awarded an honorary fourth-class degree. In the United States, the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree was first conferred as an honorary degree at Bucknell University in 1852; not until 1861 did Yale University award

3696-535: The degree letters, for example, "Hon DMus". In recent years, some universities have adopted entirely separate postnominal titles for honorary degrees. This is in part due to the confusion that honorary degrees have caused. For example, an honorary doctorate from the Auckland University of Technology takes the special title HonD since it is now common in certain countries to use certain degrees, such as LLD or HonD, as purely honorary. Some universities, including

3773-470: The faculty of medical sciences. Due to lack of surety in quality of legal education, The Bar Council of India has issued a notification asking Delhi University (DU) to shut down law courses offered in evening shift at its colleges. Internationally, the University of Delhi was ranked 521–530 in the QS World University Rankings of 2023 and 85 in Asia. It was ranked 1001–1200 in the world by

3850-617: The field of business include Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja , President of the World Bank - Ajay Banga and managing director and editor-in-chief of Republic Media Network Arnab Goswami . Notable faculty members of DU include eminent historians like RS Sharma and Ramachandra Guha ; recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Amartya Sen ; former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh ; economist and

3927-601: The fifth President of India Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed ; sixth Chief Minister of Delhi Sheila Dikshit ; fourth Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and India's first woman Chief Minister Sucheta Kriplani ; economist and former leader of the Janata Party Subramanian Swamy ; fourteenth Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik ; industrialist and former Member of Parliament Naveen Jindal ; diplomat and Foreign Secretary Jyotindra Nath Dixit ; former Deputy Chairman of

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4004-585: The first earned Ph.D., becoming the first American university to do so. Over one hundred institutions in the United States conferred honorary Ph.D. degrees in the 19th century, to more than seven hundred recipients. However, the practice of awarding the Ph.D. as an honorary degree drew condemnation from organizations such as the American Philological Association and the American Association for

4081-604: The golden jubilee celebrations of 1973 were attended by the then Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi , Satyajit Ray , Amrita Pritam , and M. S. Subbulakshmi . The university has grown into one of the largest universities in India. There are 16 faculties, 86 academic departments, 91 colleges spread across the city, with 132,435 regular students (114,494 undergraduates and 17,941 postgraduates). There are 261,169 students in non-formal education programmes (258,831 undergraduates and 2,338 postgraduates). DU's chemistry, geology, zoology, sociology, and history departments have been awarded

4158-418: The honorary degree of a political figure, such reasons as human rights abuse or political corruption would be considered. As a result, it was announced that Mugabe had been stripped of his honorary degree. The university also planned to have a more rigorous selection procedure regarding potential recipients of honorary degrees, in an attempt to rectify the trend of awarding degrees to celebrities. Students at

4235-416: The hood, and those at the University of St Andrews wear a black cassock instead of the usual full-dress gown. An ad eundem or jure officii degree is sometimes considered honorary, although these are only conferred on an individual who has already achieved a comparable qualification at another university or attained an office requiring the appropriate level of scholarship. Under certain circumstances,

4312-597: The humanities and social sciences include First Deputy Managing Director of economics at IMF Gita Gopinath ; economist and Senior Vice-president and Chief Economist of the World Bank Kaushik Basu ; historians Arundhati Virmani , Ramnarayan Rawat , Upinder Singh and Usha Sanyal ; professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University Veena Das ; Kathak dancer Uma Sharma ; Bharatnatyam dancer Geeta Chandran ; gender rights activist Meera Khanna and IPS officer and politician Kiran Bedi Notable alumni in

4389-474: The judicial bench. These, also, are properly considered substantive rather than honorary degrees. Some US universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cornell University , Stanford University , and Rice University , do not award honorary degrees as a matter of policy. The University of Virginia (founded in 1819) was probably the first US university to explicitly have

4466-448: The national flag was hoisted in the main building for the first time by Vijayendra Kasturi Ranga Varadaraja Rao . In that year there was no convocation ceremony due to the partition of India . Instead, a special ceremony was held in 1948, attended by then Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru , as well as by Lord Mountbatten , Lady Mountbatten , Abul Kalam Azad , Zakir Husain and Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar . Twenty-five years later

4543-557: The occasion of royal visits to Oxford or Cambridge . On the visit of James I to Oxford in 1605, for example, forty-three members of his retinue (fifteen of whom were earls or barons ) received the degree of Master of Arts , and the Register of Convocation explicitly states that these were full degrees, carrying the usual privileges, such as voting rights in Convocation and Congregation . There were also some special cases: for example

4620-400: The recipient has demonstrated an appropriate level of academic scholarship that would ordinarily qualify him or her for the award of a substantive degree. Recipients of honorary degrees typically wear the same academic dress as recipients of substantive degrees, although there are a few exceptions: honorary graduates at the University of Cambridge wear the appropriate full-dress gown but not

4697-473: The sake of the honour") or ad honorem ("to the honour"). The degree is typically a doctorate or, less commonly, a master's degree , and may be awarded to someone who has no prior connection with the academic institution or no previous postsecondary education. An example of identifying a recipient of this award is as follows: Doctorate in Business Administration ( Hon. Causa ). The degree

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4774-578: The sciences include physicist Archana Bhattacharyya , theoretical physicist Pran Nath , SLAC physicist Jogesh Pati particle physicist Amitava Raychaudhuri , astrophysicist Vinod Krishan , chemists Charusita Chakravarty and Anil Kumar Tyagi , engineer and "father of the pentium processor " Vinod Dham , mathematician Eknath Prabhakar Ghate , astrophysicist Sangeeta Malhotra , engineer Yogi Goswami , neurosurgeon B. K. Misra (1st Vice-President of World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies) , and biomaterials researcher Sanjukta Deb . Notable alumni in

4851-495: The small college received considerable press coverage. The degree was conferred in recognition of efforts in the area of environmentalism . The university stated: "His theme song, ' It's Not Easy Bein' Green ,' has become a rallying cry of the environmental movement. Kermit has used his celebrity to spread positive messages in public service announcements for the National Wildlife Federation , National Park Service ,

4928-503: The status of Centres of Advanced Studies. In addition, a number of the university's departments receive grants under the Special Assistance Programme of the University Grants Commission in recognition of their outstanding academic work. From the year 2022, DU changed its admission pattern from the 12th percentage mark based to CUET (Common University Entrance Test). Now it will admit students based on their CUET scores. And

5005-455: The system of "higher doctorates" used in the UK and some other universities around the world. Some universities and colleges have the custom of awarding a master's degree to every scholar appointed as a full professor, who had never earned a degree there. At the universities of Oxford, Dublin and Cambridge, many senior staff are granted the degree of Master of Arts after three years of service. In

5082-629: The table below. The table below shows the differences between ISO 15919, UNRSGN and IAST for Devanagari transliteration. Only certain fonts support all Latin Unicode characters for the transliteration of Indic scripts according to this standard. For example, Tahoma supports almost all the characters needed. Arial and Times New Roman font packages that come with Microsoft Office 2007 and later also support most Latin Extended Additional characters like ḍ, ḥ, ḷ, ḻ, ṁ, ṅ, ṇ, ṛ, ṣ and ṭ. There

5159-525: The three faculties of the central university, including arts, commerce and science. The university offers 70 post-graduate degrees. DU also offers MPhil in about 28 subjects. In addition to these, it offers 90+ Certificate courses and 28 Diplomas. There are 15 Advanced Diplomas offered in various languages. The university offers PhD courses, which may be awarded by any faculty of the university under ordinance VI-B. But, speciality and super speciality medical degrees like DM , DCh etc., could only be awarded by

5236-494: The two extremes of honouring celebrities and formally assessing a portfolio of research, some universities use honorary degrees to recognise achievements of intellectual rigour. Some institutes of higher education do not confer honorary degrees as a matter of policy—see below . Some learned societies award honorary fellowships in the same way as honorary degrees are awarded by universities, for similar reasons. A typical example of university regulations is, "Honorary graduates may use

5313-573: The university by Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, there after in 2011, the university initiated an upgrade plan, to create a multi-purpose arena with both outdoor and indoor facilities. The university opened access to these facilities in late 2011. Notable alumni in Indian politics include: lawyer and former Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley ; Foreign Secretary of India Vijay Keshav Gokhale ; Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar ; former diplomat, writer and Member of Parliament Shashi Tharoor ;

5390-734: The university. It now has the School of Open Learning , the Faculty of Arts , the Faculty of Law , the Faculty of Management Studies and 16 colleges including Kirori Mal College , Lady Irwin College , Daulat Ram College , Hansraj College , Hindu College , Indraprastha College for Women , Mata Sundri College for Women , Lakshmibai College , Miranda House , Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College , Ramjas College , St. Stephen's College , Swami Shraddhanand College, Shri Ram College of Commerce , Satyawati College , Shyam Lal College . The campus also houses centres for graduate study and research, which include

5467-629: The university. The university initially had two faculties (Arts and Science) and approximately 750 students. The seat of power in British India had been transferred from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911. The Viceregal Lodge Estate became the residence of the Viceroy of India until October 1933, when it was given to the University of Delhi. Since then, it has housed the office of the vice-chancellor and other offices. When Sir Maurice Gwyer came to India in 1937 to serve as Chief Justice of British India, he became

5544-495: The use of this honorific, the policies of institutions of higher education generally ask that recipients "refrain from adopting the misleading title" and that a recipient of an honorary doctorate should restrict the use of the title "Dr" before their name to any engagement with the institution of higher education in question and not within the broader community. The practice dates back to the Middle Ages , when for various reasons

5621-750: Was also enrolled in Motilal Nehru College Notable DU alumni in poetry and literature include the Sahitya Akademi Award winning dramatist and playwright Harcharan Singh , the Urdu poet Akhtar ul Iman , and the writers Vikram Seth , Anita Desai (Shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times), Amitav Ghosh , Kunzang Choden , Upamanyu Chatterjee , Ali Sardar Jafri , and the Padma Vibhushan recipient Khushwant Singh . Notable alumni in

5698-636: Was developed by the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) and covers many Brahmic scripts. The ALA-LC romanization was approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association and is a US standard. The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) is not a standard (as no specification exists for it) but a convention developed in Europe for

5775-577: Was ignited about Notre Dame awarding Obama an honorary degree, as the institution is Roman Catholic and Obama holds pro-choice views on abortion and supports embryonic stem cell research. In February 2012, Rosmah Mansor , the wife of the Prime Minister of Malaysia , Najib Razak was controversially awarded an honorary doctorate by the Curtin University for "services to childhood education". The university honored Rosmah for founding and driving

5852-509: Was singer Bing Crosby , from Gonzaga University in 1937. By 2001, about 21 U.S. states had begun allowing public schools to grant honorary high school diplomas to military veterans under a program called "Operation Recognition". In Ohio, it was unclear whether public schools had the legal authority to grant them until 12 July 2001, when Governor Bob Taft signed a bill allowing public school districts to grant them to honorably discharged veterans of World War II . Lakota East High School

5929-536: Was transformed into the Netaji Subhas University of Technology . It was again established in 2023. The University of Delhi has two affiliated faculties: There are about 28 centres and institutes at DU. These are divided into four categories: There are 240 courses available at the university for undergraduate (UG) and post-graduate (PG). There are a total 201 courses offered by Delhi University like MBBS , B.Tech. etc. Courses are mainly classified under

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