This situation with Bill Cosby is going to get worse before it gets better.

The Washington Post reports.

George Washington University rescinds Bill Cosby’s honorary degree

George Washington University’s president announced Monday that the honorary degree presented to Bill Cosby in the 1990s would be revoked, the latest college to back away from the actor and comedian who has been accused of sexual assault by dozens of women and was charged last month in a decades-old case.

GW’s decision was an about-face from the position the university took in the fall, so President Steven Knapp explained in a letter to the campus community why he decided to join the list of institutions that have made similar decisions regarding Cosby. The move comes in the midst of heightened national concern over the issue of rape at colleges, an issue which makes the allegations against Cosby particularly raw on campus.

Knapp wrote to let members of the college community “know what the university has been doing and is continuing to do in response to the ongoing problem of sexual assault that afflicts every college campus, including ours.”

He described efforts such as ongoing participation in the White House’s “It’s on Us” campaign to prevent sexual assault, a new Title IX coordinator, a new administrator charged with sexual-assault prevention and response, and mandatory training for students.

“In light of these efforts, students last fall raised the question of whether, given the numerous allegations of sexual assault against Bill Cosby, the university should rescind the honorary doctoral degree it conferred on Mr. Cosby in 1997,” Knapp wrote.