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Howard College introduced that it’s rescinding the honorary diploma it bestowed on Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2014. The choice comes after video footage was revealed in Might of the disgraced Hip-Hop mogul beating his ex-girlfriend and Dangerous Boy recording artist Cassie Ventura in a lodge foyer in 2016.
On Friday, June 7, the Howard College Board of Trustees introduced that it determined to rescind Combs’ honorary diploma and to return the $1 million the previous scholar (he by no means truly graduated) had pledged to the college.
“The Howard College Board of Trustees voted unanimously as we speak to just accept the return by Mr. Sean Combs of the honorary diploma conferred upon him in 2014,” stated an official assertion from Howard’s Board of Trustees. “This acceptance revokes all honors and privileges related to the diploma.”
Additionally, HU is successfully wiping any affiliation with Diddy, who attended the HBCU within the early nineties earlier than dropping out to pursue his profession within the music enterprise full time.
The assertion continued, “Accordingly, the Board has directed that his title be faraway from all paperwork itemizing honorary diploma recipients of Howard College. Mr. Combs’ conduct as captured in a lately launched video is so essentially incompatible with Howard College’s core values and beliefs that he’s deemed now not worthy to carry the establishment’s highest honor.”
Curiously, though Diddy initially pledged the $1 million donation in 2016, the Board’s assertion reveals that no funds had been made by him or the Sean Combs Basis so far. So there isn’t a cash to return (beneath a 2023 settlement). The scholarship program established in Combs’ title may also be disbanded.
Diddy, who has all the time spoken fondly of his time as an undergrad, was the graduation speaker at Howard in 2014 when he acquired the honorary diploma.
Howard is simply the most recent entity to sever ties with Diddy. Others embody Revolt, the media firm he based, and Hulu, which nixed a actuality collection about his household.
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