Accolades abroad
Chancellor earns honorary degree from Thai university
Chancellor Brady Deaton receives his honorary degree from Prince of Songkla University.
If you haven’t seen MU’s chancellor on campus this week, there’s a good reason. Brady Deaton is in Hat Yai, Thailand, where Prince of Songkla University has given him an honorary degree.
Deaton has close ties to the Land of Smiles. He taught vocational agriculture there as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1960s and has visited the country repeatedly since. He also speaks the language fluently, wowing Thai students last spring when he addressed the crowd at the annual Songkran Festival.
Deaton has made international engagement a priority for Mizzou. He hosts the Chancellor’s Global Issues Forum and last year established, by chancellorial proclamation, the first MU International Day. Currently more than 1,800 international students are enrolled at Mizzou, and the university offers more than 400 study-abroad programs in 60 countries.
Read more about Deaton’s honorary degree.
On behalf of MU alumni and Faculty of Education, Prince of Songkla University Pattani Campus, we’re very proud of Dr. Deaton and his honorary degree in educational leadership and innovation. His great contribution to Prince of Songkla University, especially Faculty of Education, brought him this prestige degree.
Go Mizzou.
Asst. Prof. Ekkarin Sungtong, PhD Associate Dean for Academic and International Affairs Faculty of Education, Prince of Songkla University Pattani Campus, Thailand FoE MU alumnus, 2007
Asst. Prof. Ekkarin Sungtong,Ph.D. | Sept.30, 2009
Congratulations to Chancellor Deaton! I was honored with such a degree from PSU in 2000. It was one of the greatest days of my life. When I was first at PSU in 1989, Mizzou had been for years the only American university at Pattani. Your university energized the Faculty of Education for many years, and I am happy to note that you are still there.
Please extend my personal best wishes to Dr. Deaton. We were together for a brief while at Virginia Tech.
Robert B. Albritton | Sept. 2, 2009
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