Honors & Awards

Saybrook University supports and recognizes humanistic scholars and thought leaders in many fields of endeavor through the Rollo May Award and the awarding of a Doctor of Humane Letters.

 

 

For thirty years, Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, now Saybrook University’s Graduate College of Psychology and Humanistic Studies, has championed a view of psychology that believes in the capacity of everyone, given the chance, to realize their potential and to work with others to create a better world. Every two years, Saybrook and its Rollo May Center for Humanistic Studies celebrate the advancement of the humanistic tradition in psychology and human science by presenting The Rollo May Award. As one of Saybrook's founders, Dr. Rollo May exhibited an unflinching trust in the transformative power of love, choice, and creative action. The Rollo May Award recognizes an individual whose life's work demonstrates his faith in human possibility. To learn more about Rollo May, click here.

 

2009     Thomas Stephen Szasz, PhD

2007     Daniel Ellsberg

2003     Senator John Vasconcellos, California State Senate

2001     Price Cobbs, MD, Psychiatrist, Author

 

 

A Doctor of Humane Letters has been awarded annually to people who have made substantial contributions to the unique mission and purposes of Saybrook Graduate School, now Saybrook University’s Graduate College of Psychology and Humanistic Studies. These include, outstanding specific contributions to humanistic psychology or human science, outstanding general contributions to the arts and/or sciences, the relevance of which can be related to the unique mission and purposes of Saybrook, and outstanding contributions to the Saybrook Graduate School itself. Saybrook University will continue this tradition.

Awardees are approved by the Board of Trustees, on the recommendation of members of the Saybrook community.

 

2009     Chip Conley

2008     Riane Eisler, PhD; David Loye, PhD

2007     Joanna Macy, PhD; Stanley Kelleman

2005     Richard Adams, Esq.; Rona King Pehrson, PhD

2004     Walter Truett Anderson

2002     Robert Shapiro; Michael Murphy; Georgia May; George Leonard

2001     Patricia Westerbeke; Huston Smith