: UMass-Amherst Rescinds Honorary Degree for Robert Mugabe

by E Wayne Ross on June 13, 2008

The Chronicle: UMass-Amherst Rescinds Honorary Degree for Robert Mugabe

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously today to withdraw an honorary law doctorate that was awarded in 1986 to President Robert G. Mugabe of Zimbabwe.