Former Vice President Mike Pence will be joining George Mason University’s Arlington-based Schar School of Policy and Government this fall.
Pence — the VP during President Donald Trump’s first term — has been named a professor of practice, meaning he will contribute to undergraduate courses starting in spring 2026, according to a release from GMU.
GMU said the topics of his courses will be politics, leadership and national governance.
“It’s a privilege to join the Schar School as Professor of Practice,” Pence said in the release. “Throughout my years of public service, I have seen firsthand the importance of principled leadership and fidelity to the Constitution in shaping the future of our nation.”
“I look forward to sharing these lessons with the next generation of American leaders and learning from the remarkable students and faculty of George Mason University,” he continued.
Pence joins the school in the middle of a row between university leadership and the Trump administration.
The administration launched a six-week-long investigation of the school’s hiring practices and said it violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race. The administration demanded the school change its politics and that GMU President Gregory Washington personally apologize, which Washington refused to do.
Pence has continued to praise Trump on some policies and criticize him on others, including tariffs and other foreign policy issues. Trump, meanwhile, has called his former vice president “delusional.”
“The Schar School is proud to welcome Vice President Pence to our faculty,” said Mark J. Rozell, dean of the Schar School. “His disciplined approach to communication and his deeply rooted conservative philosophy provide a principled framework to discussions of federalism, the separation of powers, and the role of values in public life.”
