President Richard Englert noted the trustees’ decision to rescind Bill Cosby’s honorary degree and the suspension of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity on Main Campus.
The decision comes one day after Bill Cosby was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a former Temple employee while he was a university trustee in 2004.
Cosby is facing up to 30 years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting former Temple employee Andrea Constand in 2004 — a huge win for the #MeToo movement.
Jurors deliberated for more than 10 hours on Wednesday and asked to rehear testimony from Bill Cosby and Marguerite Jackson, the defense’s key witness and academic adviser at the Boyer College of Music and Dance.
The jury will soon decide — beyond a reasonable doubt — whether Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted Constand in his Montgomery County home in January 2004.