See a list of previous honorees and a fact sheet on American Stars of Teaching.

Previous honorees include; Nina Dobrev and Xavier Dolan among others.

Previous honorees were the abolitionist Harriet Tubman and Jackie Robinson.

Previous honorees are Martin Bresnick in 1998 and Chen Yi, whose three-year term expires in 2004.

Previous honorees include Sidney Lumet, Elia Kazan and James Stewart.

Among previous honorees are Sidney Lumet, Elia Kazan and Tom Hanks.

They will join previous honorees like the Coca-Cola Company, the McDonald's Corporation and Nike Inc.

Previous honorees include John F Kennedy, Orson Welles and Elvis Presley.

Previous honorees include Mother Teresa, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope John Paul II.

On May 6, three previous honorees stated they intended to return their degrees: Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael Cunningham and Ellen Schrecker.