It’s graduation season, the time of year where hundreds of thousands of students around the country are completing their college degrees, and participating in that all-too-satisfying graduation ceremony, a celebration of the culmination of a long period of dedicated work.
Sometimes you earn through deed, rather than study, however. Schools from time to time will dispense an honorary degree, acknowledging the great accomplishments of an individual in a particular field. Pittsburgh Steelers defensive lineman Cameron Heyward yesterday received an honorary doctorate degree of his own yesterday through Carlow University, after delivering the commencement address for hisextensive charitable work to which he has been committed during his playing career (you can watch the commencement address at the end of the article).