When Phylicia Rashad, a Howard University alum and the new dean of its college of fine arts, tweeted her resounding support for former co-star Bill Cosby’s sudden release from prison Wednesday, it caused a ripple among Howard students and alumni.

Moments after the news broke that Cosby, convicted in 2018 of three counts of aggravated indecent assault against Andrea Constand had his conviction overturned and was released from prison after nearly three years, Rashad tweeted, “FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted—a miscarriage of justice is corrected!”

Sheryl Wesley, who graduated from Howard in 1996, said she was taken aback by Rashad’s comments.

“She now has a responsibility to a body of students and in particular women students,” Wesley said. “She should not feel comfortable to immediately release her personal relief of someone who she considers a friend, but who was convicted of crimes against women. Without concern she openly supported him without considering the institution she has graduated from, and now represents and women who have been victimized.”

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