The Medical University of South Carolina is rescinding the honorary degree it awarded to Bill Cosby, joining numerous other universities in revoking honors following the comedian’s sexual assault conviction.
MUSC announced Friday that the Medical University of South Carolina and Medical University Hospital Authority Board of Trustees, at its regularly scheduled meeting, had voted to rescind the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters it awarded Cosby in 1993.
Jurors in Pennsylvania convicted Cosby Thursday, April 26 of drugging and molesting a Temple University employee at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004.
Even before the verdict, more than 20 colleges and universities across the U.S. had revoked honorary degrees from Cosby in light of the allegations against him. Others including Temple, Johns Hopkins University, and Carnegie Mellon University revoked honors afterward.
