Clooney among potential EKU honorary degree recipients

Clooney among potential EKU honorary degree recipients

Bryan Marshall
Register News Writer
Eastern Kentucky University may be going Hollywood.

Two well-known filmmakers with Kentucky ties are among several notable candidates for honorary doctorate degrees at the university.

The Board of Regents will vote during its quarterly meeting Saturday whether to approve the candidates recommended by the University Honorary Degree Nominating Committee.

Kentucky native George Clooney, an Academy-Award and Golden-Globe winning actor, director, producer and screenwriter, is among those nominated.

Clooney was presented with the 2007 Summit Peace Prize Award by the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and, in January, he was appointed as a UN Messenger of Peace.

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