Mike Pence to teach George Mason University from spring semester

Former vice-president Mike Pence returns to school.

Pence, who was vice-president during President Donald Trump’s first mandate at the White House, but who then ran against his former boss in the 2024 presidential primaries, joined the Scar de Scar de Policy and Government from George Mason University as a distinguished practice teacher.

The school -based school in Northern Virginia said Pence will begin to teach undergraduate lessons and public -oriented seminars from next year’s spring semester.

The school, in an announcement on Tuesday, also said that Pence will be available via moderate discussions and mentoring programs with students pursuing diplomas in political science, law, public administration and related fields.

The former vice-president Pence receives the prize for JFK’s “courage profile”

Former vice-president Mike Pence recognizes its staff members after receiving the John F. Kennedy prize in courage during a ceremony at the JFK library in Boston, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP photo / Robert F. Bukaty)

The dean of the Scar school, Mark Rozell, said that “the disciplined approach to the communication of the former vice-president and his deeply rooted conservative philosophy provide a framework of principle to discussions on federalism, the separation of powers and the role of values ​​in public life”.

And Pence, in a press release, said that “throughout my years of public service, I saw the importance of leadership in principle and loyalty to the constitution in the shaping of the future of our nation. I can’t wait to share these lessons with the next generation of American leaders and learn from remarkable students and teachers of George Mason.”

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Pence, 66 years old, a former member of the congress, was the Governor of Indiana when Trump appointed his running mate in 2016. For four years, Pence was a vice-president faithful to Trump’s first term of the White House.

The president elected Donald Trump, then the president elected, Mike Pence, held on stage at the US Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 1, 2016. (Ty Wright / Getty images)

However, everything changed on January 6, 2021, when pro -Trump demonstrators – including some singing “Hang Mike Pence” – stormed the American Capitol aimed at upsetting the certification of the Congress of the Constitutional President, the constitutional president, the vice -president.

THE tackle It took place shortly after Trump spoke to a large partisans rally near the White House of unabashed affirmations that the 2020 elections were “rigged” due to massive “electoral fraud”.

Pence rejected the councils of the secret service that he was fleeing the Capitol, and after the rioters were finally withdrawn from the Capitol, he resumed his constitutional role in the supervision of the Congress certification ceremony.

The former vice-president repeatedly refuted Trump’s assertion that he could have canceled the results of the presidential elections. Despite this, Trump’s loyalists have never forgiven Pence, whom they consider a traitor, for refusing to help the president’s repeated efforts to overthrow the 2020 elections.

Former vice-president Mike Pence officially announced his presidency race in Ankeny, Iowa, June 7, 2023. (Paul Steinhauser / Fox News)

Pence in June 2023 launched its own presidential campaign, joining a large area of ​​challengers in Trump Gunning for the appointment of the GOP 2024, becoming the first running mate in more than 80 years to appear against their former boss.

Pence ran on a traditional conservative platform, supervising the future of the republican party against what he called the rise of “populism” in the party.

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Among the thin anti-Trump base of the Republican Party, Pence praised his courage during the attack on the Capitol, often thanking thanks to the town halls during his campaign for resisting Trump.

While Pence regularly campaigned in the crucial states of early voting from Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, his candidacy for the White House has never taken off. Fighting in the polls and with fundraising, he suspended his campaign only four and a half months after declaring his candidacy.