Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is going into academia, taking a post as a visiting professor in the political science department of Texas Tech University effective August 1, the university announced today.
Gonzales will be teaching a junior-level special topics course, “Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch,” according to a statement from the university. Gonzales is also expected to guest lecture to classes across the campus. The Austin American Statesman first published the Gonzales hiring this afternoon. Click here for the statement from the university.
Gonzales, a Texas native who resigned as attorney general in August 2007 amid controversy over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys, will assist Texas Tech University and Angelo State University “with recruiting and retaining first generation and underrepresented students,” according to Texas Tech statement.
“His own upbringing in Houston as part of a migrant family with eight children makes him qualified to tell underrepresented Texas students that college is possible,” Texas Tech chancellor Kent Hance said in a statement. The interim dean of the university’s College of Arts and Sciences said in a statement that Gonzales brings a “rich perspective of the executive branch and issues and challenges facing our nation.”
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