Former internees to get degrees from U. of Wa.
Hundreds of Japanese-Americans who were held in internment camps during World War II will receive honorary baccalaureate degrees from the University of Washington -- a move some say has been too long in the coming.
Of the thousands of Japanese-Americans incarcerated in the early 1940s, 440 were students at the UW. Regents at the university voted Thursday to acknowledge the suffering of those students by awarding them honorary degrees.
The honorary degrees were lauded as a bright spot in the otherwise cloudy monthly meeting, an hour of which was devoted to talking about escalating campus safety concerns.
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Of the thousands of Japanese-Americans incarcerated in the early 1940s, 440 were students at the UW. Regents at the university voted Thursday to acknowledge the suffering of those students by awarding them honorary degrees.
The honorary degrees were lauded as a bright spot in the otherwise cloudy monthly meeting, an hour of which was devoted to talking about escalating campus safety concerns.