Former Toronto Raptors star Pascal Siakam went back to school this week and got a nice new title.

On Wednesday, Siakam was granted an honorary degree from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.

Siakam had previously partnered with the university’s McKenna Institute and the River Philip Foundation in 2023. Siakam opted to establish a $200,000 tech-focused scholarship through his PS43 Foundation to honour his late father, Tchamo, who passed away in 2014.

“Receiving an honorary degree from UNB is an incredible honour but the bigger story is the scholarship we created with the McKenna Institute in my father’s name,” Siakam wrote in a post on social media . “The Pascal Siakam Scholarship supports students from Cameroon studying computer science and technology, giving them the gift

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