PolitiFact previously asked the University of Pennsylvania about the differences between Biden’s position and those of rank-and-file full professors.
"Penn has many different models of professorships," Ron Ozio, the university’s media relations director, told PolitiFact."Not all are tenure-track and involve teaching regular classes. Some are clinicians, some are researchers, and others are professors of the practice, the category that applied to President Biden."
Ozio said in 2022 that Biden helped expand the university’s global outreach"while sharing his wisdom and insights with thousands of Penn students through University-wide events, talks and classroom visits." A White House spokesperson also told PolitiFact that Biden was a constitutional law adjunct professor at
for 17 years. That was from 1991 to 2008, when he resigned to accept Barack Obama’s offer to join the Democratic ticket as his vice presidential running mate.Biden served as a"professor of the practice" at the University of Pennsylvania. Although the university lists his service from 2017 to 2021, his position was closer to two years because he was on unpaid leave while running for president.We rate his statement Half True.