I.B.4- - RESOLUTION TO AWARD HONORARY DEGREES

RESOLVED, that Hunter College awards Arthur Elgart, class of 1964, the degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, at the college's spring commencement ceremony on May 30, 2017 and Elena Kagan, HCES Class of'71 and HCHS Class of'77, the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, at a commencement ceremony in the next academic year.

EXPLANATION, Arthur Elgort's innovative fashionphotography has appeared in Vogue, Glamour, and other top fashionmagazines, and he has shot ad campaigns for the likes of Chanel, Valentino, and Yves Saint Laurent. His work has been exhibited in permanent collections at London's Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In 2011, Elgart won the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Board of Directors Award. In a career spanning over fourdecades, Elgart transformed theworld of fashion photography by employing a visionary "snapshot style" that inspired a generation of photographers, changing the industry and its portrayal of women. Elgart graduated from Hunter College, where he received a BFA in 1964.

After a career in private sector law, academia and the federalgovernment, Elena Kagan was nominated by President Obama to be the 112th justice of the United States Supreme Court. Supreme Court Justice Kagan is the formerU.S. Solicitor General, the formerdean of Harvard Law School, and the firstwoman to have held either position. ARTHUR ELGORT

When Arthur Eigo rt graduated from Hunter in 1964, fashion photography was, with few exceptions, an airless world of strictly curated studio shoots and immobile, mannequin-like models. Elgart, who got his first big assignment from British Vogue in 1971, turned that world upside down. He liberated the models from the studio, mussed up their hair, toned down their makeup, and let them fill the frame with movement, emotion, and exuberant, quirky life.

His so-called "snapshot style" inspired a generation of photographers, changing the industry and its portrayal of women. Over the years, Elgort's work has appeared in Vogue, Glamour, and other top fashion magazines, and he has shot ad campaigns for the likes of Chanel, Valentino, and Yves Saint Laurent. His work has been exhibited in permanent collections at London's Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In 2011, Elgart won the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Board of Directors Award.

The son of a restaurant owner, Elgort grew up in Brooklyn and attended Stuyvesant High School before going to Hunter, where he studied painting, an art he eventually decided was too isolating. He switched to photography-and made it his own.

ELENA KAGAN

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan earned her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, an M. Phil. From Worcester College in Oxford, and her JD from Harvard Law School, where she was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her illustrious career spanned private sector law practice and academia, as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and later as dean of Harvard Law school. She also clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall and served for four years in the Clinton Administration. In 2009, President Obama appointed her to be the first woman solicitor general of the United States. Two months after the U.S. Senate confirmed Kagan for that role, Obama nominated her to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court.

Elena Kagan was born on April 28, 1960 and grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side. She remembers her time at HCES and HCHS fondly. Her mother, Gloria, taught at Hunter College Elementary School, and her younger brother became a beloved teacher at Hunter College High School.