Did Tulane University hire Hunter Biden to teach a course on the media?
The university has not hired Hunter Biden. The president’s son will appear virtually as a one-time, unpaid guest speaker for a media polarization course, according to Michael Strecker, Tulane’s executive director of public relations.
Prominent Republicans, including Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Donald Trump Jr., were among those claiming that Hunter Biden is teaching the course.
“We haven’t hired him,” Strecker told The Associated Press in a phone call.
The new online course, titled “Media Polarization and Public Policy Impacts,” will feature “several high-profile guest speakers from across the political and policy spectrum,” Strecker added in an emailed statement. “Hunter Biden will be participating as an unpaid guest speaker – not a guest teacher or lecturer.”
Visiting Assistant Professor Mitchell Sellers and Center for Strategic and International Studies Chief Communications Officer Andrew Schwartz will teach the course, Strecker said.