Biden says he ‘became a professor’ at an Ivy League school there despite never teaching to prove that he’s spent a lot of time around young people
- During a virtual town hall, Joe Biden suggested that he worked as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania
- ‘When I left the United States Senate, I became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania,’ Biden told a group of young people
- In 2017, Biden received the honorary title of ‘Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor’ from the University of Pennsylvania
- That same year, Biden spokesperson Kate Bedingfield told the Daily Pennsylvanian, ‘He will not be teaching classes’
- Biden also told a group of supporters at a campaign event in February that he was a professor
Joe Biden told a group of young supporters during a virtual town hall that he worked as an Ivy League professor when he left the Senate.
On Wednesday, the presidential hopeful talked to a virtual roundtable of young people about student loan debt on NBC News.
During that discussion, he claimed to be around young people a lot because of his work as a college professor.
‘When I left the United States Senate, I became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania,’ Biden said. ‘And I’ve spent a lot of time – and the University of Delaware has the Biden School as well, so I’ve spent a lot of time on campus with college students.’
In 2017, the University of Pennsylvania gave Biden the honorary title of ‘Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor.’
Joe Biden spoke about student loan debt during a virtual town hall this Wednesday hosted by NBC News, when he mentioned becoming a ‘professor’ at the University of Pennsylvania
Biden told the virtual roundtable that he had spent a lot of time around young people because he was a University of Pennsylvania professor
Biden was actually given the honorary title of ‘Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor by the University of Pennsylvania
The university also opened the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C. in honor of the former vice president, according to the The Daily Pennsylvania.
However, the university released a statement that read, ‘Although he is not scheduled to teach a formal course at this time, we are certain that there will be opportunities for our students to benefit from his presence at Penn.’
Biden spokesperson Kate Bedingfield followed up with a statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian saying, ‘He will not be teaching classes.’
On February 28, Biden also made the same claim of being a professor during another campaign event.