Which year did any college confer the most amount of degrees?
SELECT T3.year FROM campuses AS T1 JOIN faculty AS T2 ON T1.id   =   t2.campus JOIN degrees AS T3 ON T1.id   =   t3.campus AND t2.year   =   t3.year ORDER BY t3.degrees DESC LIMIT 1
most amount of degrees refers to MAX(degrees); year any college conferred the most degrees refers to year; need to join tables (campuses, faculty, degrees) to correlate campuses, faculty members, and degrees conferred in the same year;