Former Vice President Joe Biden is set to be a professor. He will lead the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, Fox News reported Wednesday.
The ivy league university's newly-developed center named for Biden is oriented around diplomacy, foreign policy, and national security. It is based in Washington, D.C., but Biden will also have an office at the Philadelphia campus.
The president of Penn, Amy Gutmann, said that due to Biden's "distinguished career of service," he is uniquely qualified to help teach the current generation on how to "bring people together" and navigate the current foreign policy realm.
"Joe Biden is one of the greatest statesmen of our times," Gutmann said. "In his distinguished career of service to our nation, he has demonstrated a unique capacity to bring people together across divides and to craft constructive responses to some of the toughest and most important policy challenges of our day."
Biden gave a statement saying he hopes to build on what he accomplished in office.
"At Penn, I look forward to building on the work that has been a central pillar of my career in public office: promoting and protecting the post-WWII international order that keeps the United States safe and strong," Biden said.
According to Fox, Biden will also "hold joint appointments in the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Arts and Sciences, with a secondary affiliation in the Wharton School."
Biden is following in former President Barack Obama's footsteps: before his time in office, Obama was a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago.