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Immediately to try to come up with a better solution, and howard was lucky enough to find some funders to endow specific chairs for those -- for that work. >> okay. now let's move on to a bit of controversy for howard university, and that is what is going on with phylicia rashad. she, of course, the co-star of bill cosby, the long-time friend of bill cosby. when bill cosby was suddenly released from prison, his conviction vacated she put out a tweet, as you know, that says "finally" in all caps, exclamation point. a wrong is being corrected and a miscarriage of justice is being corrected. sexu...

The vote occur on the last possible day at the last possible moment after threat of legal action, after weeks of protest, after it became a national scandal, it is not something that i want anymore. >> hillary rosen is a member of the board of trustees at howard university and a cnn political commentatory. thanks for being with us. we know that she will now be a tenured professor at howard university. you are on the board. i am an alumnus. when i saw the alert this morning i thought to myself, i audibly said, wow. first, the statement this makes for the students of howard university from your ...

Here. he is going free because his other -- the survivors of his other assaults have not been able to press criminal charges. >> understood. >> so, you know, that i think is the focus. i think that dean rashad understands that. i think howard understands that. we need to reenergize survivors' rights, and i think that howard will be a part of that going forward >> ae rauls appreciate your can dn dcandor. thanks so much for talking with us. we have details on the golf course. what police now say why he was killed. i may not be able to tell time, but i know what time it is. [whispering] it's gr...

Assault. well, that's not what they thought. so, hillary, i know you are not an official spokesperson, but do you think she can stay on as dean there? >> yes, i do actually. i think -- look, let's remember that bill cosby's actually the criminal here. you know, dean rashad -- it was a terrible tweet. i had the same reaction that you did, alisyn, that many other, especially women across the country had, and she realized that very quickly and moved to change it. but, importantly, i think now this is actually her first week starting at howard. she wrote a letter this week to the students of the u...

Morning at the same time of coates, qualifications, it is just a one-two blessing for our students. i think, you know, the unc didn't want a professor who made race a central part of her journalism. that's exactly what howard is doing, what we want. we want to embrace that conversation about race. we want to embrace, you know, people's whole selves. so i think the idea that they're both coming to howard is just really exciting. >> hillary, do you have any -- i don't know if you do, but any insight into how this happened? >> we have a very dynamic president in dr. wayne fredrick, as you know. i...