NSBE Director to Receive Honorary Doctorate
The Board of Trustees of Clarkson University has selected NSBE Executive Director Carl B. Mack (“Brother E.D.”) to receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the school. Mack will receive the prestigious degree during Clarkson’s commencement ceremony, in Potsdam, N.Y., on Saturday, May 8, 2010. He will also speak to the graduates during the event.
“Clarkson awards honorary degrees each year to a very limited number of individuals whose achievements deserve special recognition by the higher education community,” says Clarkson President Anthony G. Collins. “We feel that the honorary degree is more than mere academic symbolism. A Clarkson honorary degree is awarded in the belief that graduates should share their Commencement with outstanding individuals who, by their accomplishments, have demonstrated extraordinary leadership, service, scholarship and citizenship.”
“I am extremely honored and humbled to receive this degree,” says Mack. “However, much of the credit should go to our NSBE chapter members at Clarkson. Their great work in carrying out NSBE’s mission on campus, through their incredibly successful freshmen engineering retention programs and other activities, has reflected well not only on me but on our entire Society.”
Mack has received congratulations from many NSBE leaders, including NSBE National Chair Stacyann P. Russell. NSBE National Advisor Reginald K. Ewing wrote: “You are and continue to be what we all have known: an inspiration that ‘walks the walk’ as loud as he ‘talks the talk.’ Well done NSBE’s good and faithful servant!”
More information about NSBE’s Clarkson University Chapter is available online at http://people.clarkson.edu/~nsbe/ and in the “Chapter News” section of NSBE Magazine’s Winter 2009–10 issue.