Yesbud University Rolls Back Its decision to Award Further Honorary Doctorates.
Prof (Dr) Ratnesh Dwivedi
Ex VC*Awarded Academic*Journalist*Intel & Def-INISEG*NASA Proposal Reviwer*VP-501(c)3 US Army Vet Org*Bush Center Mem*Country Dir for Ind:ESJ-Paris*Board Member with Nobel Laureates*Russian Gov Fellow@UrFU
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In reply please quote: No: 0030/10/07/2019-Yesbud-India/Honorary Doctorate......
YESBUD UNIVERSITY
School of Excellence
Tel: +260-211222361, +260 -211355615,P.O Box 30540, Lusaka, Zambia
+917834946527 (Acting Chancellor)
Honorary Doctorate
From Office of Acting Chancellor
Yesbud University,Zambia
To,
All Recipients
Dear Sir/Ma’m,
It is with grave concern by some of recipients of Honorary Doctorate in India that University’s Board of Advisers ,Headed by Prof (Dr) Ratnesh Dwivedi,Acting Chancellor,Professor & Dean has decided to award no further Honorary Doctorates in this academic year. University has remained sticked to its policy to not make it mandatory to charge any contribution from recepients. It should well also be noted that Prof Dwivedi took utmost care in selecting awardees and it was his sole effort to select Ho Doctorates from India,but keeping in mind serious objection put forward by some of recipients and to protect University’s imgae we have decided not to proceed further.
We did nine months exercise to select awardees and selected 34 out of which finally seventeen made their way in final selection.
The list to whom University has confirmed and awarded the Honorary Doctorate has been shared on social media with Acting Chancellor presenting the degree.
Those who have declined and those who have given consent but has not been yet awarded, we are sorry to say,have to wait till next notification.
We understand that it has caused inconvenient feelings to many in entire process but our core objective is to protect feelings of those who have objected to our Honorary Doctorates and top of that to protect our University’s image.
See you next time.
Till then.
Bye and stay blessed.
Prof (Dr) Ratnesh Dwivedi-Acting Chancellor,Professor & Dean,Yesbud University,Zambia
List of recipients of those who are awarded and has been clicked in photograph,who have given consent but have not been awarded and those who have declined.
1- Madhuker Upadhyay- Journalism and Gandhian Studies (To be Awarded after Consent)
2- Sarah T Partlow Lefevre- Debate and Speech Communication (Degree To be Dispatched by Surface Mail)
3- Ratnesh Dwivedi – Space and Astronomy Sciences (Awarded)
4- Anuj Sinha - Science Communication (Awarded)
5- Bhupendra Chaubey- T.V. Journalism (Awarded)
6- Rishikesh Upadhyay- Public Service(To be Awarded after Consent)
7- Priyanka Chaturvedi- Speech Communication and Public Service (Consent Received,Degree to be Awarded)
8- Subi Chaturvedi (Declined) Replaced by Akhilesh Kumar Mishra (Strategic Management-Consent Received)
9- D K Aggarwal – Financial Management (Awarded in June 2019)
10- Alok Raja- Journalism (Suspension Revoked-Degree To be Awarded)
11- Imran Khan- Religious Journalism (Suspension Revoked-Degree Awarded)
12- Ramesh Thakur- Print Journalism (Awarded)
Special Recommendations-
13- Bushra Khanam- Ethical Journalism & Urdu Language(To be Awarded after Consent)
14- Rajeev Kumar Ranjan- International Law (Awarded)
15- Richa Anirudh- Feminism and Social Service (Declined Due to Unnecessary Publicity in Media) Replaced by Sandeep Dwivedi ( Corporate Social Responsibility-Consent Received)
16- Ragini Dwivedi- Indian Cinema(To be Awarded after Consent)
17- Jagrati Shukla- Declined- Replaced by Sanjay Verma (Cyber Law-Consent Received)