I was at the western Pennsylvania college a couple weeks ago and I didn’t see the former vice-president. But as Jim Martin reports at the Erie Times-News, Pence is teaching at Grove City College, a school that calls itself a “conservative Christian college.”
A taste:
Pence, who gave the 2017 commencement speech at this conservative Christian college in Mercer County, said he spent a lot of time on college campuses after leaving office in January 2021.
“I was inspired by young people on campuses around the country,” he said. “I was open to find ways to continue that after my presidential campaign came to an end in the fall of 2023.”
That’s when he got a call from Paul McNulty, who he had known from church and during the years both spent in Washington, D.C. McNulty, who was chairman of the corporate fraud task force under President George W. Bush, also served as deputy attorney general, the second-highest ranking official at the Department of Justice.
Pence remembers the call from McNulty, who has led Grove City since 2014.
As Pence recalls, he said, “I’m sure you will be hearing from a lot of people with a lot of opportunities. But I wanted to call early to see if you would give some consideration to being part of Grove City College.”
The decision to teach at Grove City, a private college with about 2,400 students, wasn’t difficult, Pence said.
“I was immediately interested,” he said. “He (McNulty) is someone I deeply admire for his Christian faith. Frankly, the opportunity to be on campus and really experience firsthand what a special place this is has been a great privilege for me.”
Pence, who was named in 2024 as the first Distinguished Fellow for Faith and Public Life at Grove City’s Center for Faith & Public Life, began teaching this past fall. He shares duties for two classes each week with McNulty.
Pence flies in from his home in Indiana a few times per semester and appears via video conference for other classes.
Read the entire piece here.
