Haverford College Rescinds Bill Cosby's Honorary Degree

Haverford College announced Thursday it has rescinded an honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby in 2002 amid sex abuse allegations against the comedian.

After “substantial deliberation,” the college’s board of managers recommended rescinding Cosby’s degree, the college said in a statement. Cosby is facing charges of aggravated indecent assault in Montgomery County in connection with a 2004 incident in Cheltenham Township.

In its recommendation, the committee noted that “although his creative contributions at the crossroads of education, civil rights, and entertainment remain, Dr. Cosby’s admission that he acquired drugs for the purpose of giving them to women with whom he wanted to have sex undermines the educational and humanitarian principles for which the Haverford community honored him fourteen years ago,” the college said in a statement on its website.

In the statement, the college goes on to say it is “deeply troubled” Cosby’s conduct, “which we​ view as gravely inconsistent with Haverford’s institutional values.”

The embroiled comedian has had numerous honorary degrees revoked amid the sex abuse allegations.

In November, the California State University Board of Trustees revoked an honorary doctorate that was presented in Cosby in 1992. Other colleges to rescind degrees from Cosby include George Washington University, Tufts and Boston University.