The university's honors, in one boundary paragraph

1883 — the present

The boundary: The University of Notre Dame keeps an honors record of its own — its Laetare Medal, awarded since 1883 to an American Catholic and described by the university as the oldest and most prestigious honor of its kind in the country; its commencement honorary degrees, given year by year since the nineteenth century; the Pulitzer Prizes of its alumni, four by the count of the university's student newspaper in April 2000, when George Dohrmann (class of 1995, and a South Bend Tribune intern in his student years) won for beat reporting at the St. Paul Pioneer Press; and the MacArthur Fellowships of its people, six affiliated fellows by the university's 2021 count, among them two who held Notre Dame chairs when named, the musicologist Peter Jeffery (1987) and the Assyriologist Francesca Rochberg (1982). Those honors are the university's to enumerate, and they are summarized here in this single paragraph by design: the campus stands in the unincorporated Notre Dame CDP, not in the City of South Bend, and this ledger borrows from the university's roll only where a man's seat there is itself the city's tie, as the entries above for Hesburgh, Holtz, and Noll state each time. What stands in the city's own name is the rest of this section, and it is enough.

Sources:

1. University of Notre Dame — the Laetare Medal (since 1883) and the honorary-degree practice; The Observer (Notre Dame), 12 April 2000 — Dohrmann's Pulitzer, his Tribune internship, and the three other alumni winners to that date.
2. University of Notre Dame, Institute for Advanced Study, 30 September 2021 — the six MacArthur Fellows affiliated with the university, Jeffery (1987) and Rochberg (1982) among them.
3. The Notre Dame section of this history — the campus in the Notre Dame CDP and the boundary as this history keeps it.