Everybody knows about Kanye West’s Graduation. It was the album that put him on the music map, but now the star has attended an actual graduation ceremony – his own.
The ‘College Dropout’ star can now be called Dr. Kanye West after receiving an honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago at its annual commencement on Monday
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Lisa Wainwright, dean of faculty and vice president of academic administration at SAIC, said she read an interview with West, who moved to Chicago at age 3, in which he said he wished he had attended SAIC.
“I read it and thought, ‘Wow, this is a fantastic moment.’ Here is this major figure in the cultural landscape promoting art school, this guy from Chicago saying art school is cool. So we thought, ‘This man deserves an honorary doctorate from us!’ He should have gone here,” said Wainwright, who sits on the committee that decides honorary degrees.
