India, Sept. 22 -- Charlie Kirk will have an academic degree, albeit posthumous. Hillsdale College President, Larry P Arnn, announced that they would be giving an honorary degree to the Turning Point USA founder, who was fatally shot on September 10.

"Erika doesn't know this yet, we are giving Charlie and Erika the greatest respect a college can give. An honorary degree," Arnn said at Kirk's funeral service which is underway at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.

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Notably, information about Kirk that is available had not previously listed Hillsdale as one of his places of education. Kirk was at Wheeling High School, and then headed to Harper College, a community college in Illi...