University of Michigan to Honor Chancellor of Syracuse University

The University of Michigan has announced that it will award an honorary degree to Nancy Cantor at its winter commencement exercises on December 18.

Cantor is the chancellor of Syracuse University, where she is also a distinguished professor of psychology and women’s studies. Dr. Cantor was previously provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan. From 2001 to 2004, she was chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

Dr. Cantor is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from Stanford University.