Ohio Rev. Code § 3341.05: Additional colleges - honorary and academic degrees.

The boards of trustees of Bowling Green state university and Kent state university, respectively, may create, establish, provide for, and maintain a college of liberal arts, a college of education, and a college of business administration, and include the instruction appropriate to the awarding of graduate and other degrees.

On the recommendation of the faculty, the board may confer such honorary and academic degrees as are customarily conferred by colleges and universities in the United States.