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Date Posted: Tuesday, August 26, 08:27:18pm
Author: SC
Subject: Looking after the suckers

The Joe Biden way

Roll Call($) reports that Joe Biden currently receives a 'healthy' stipend from Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania, for a part-time law school teaching job. Interestingly, Biden's stipend didn't change when he cut his teaching time in half:

Since September 1991, Biden has been an adjunct faculty member at the Widener School of Law, which has campuses in Harrisburg, Pa., and Wilmington, Del. Biden team-teaches a seminar called Selected Topics in Constitutional Law with professor Robert Hayman. The class meets Saturday mornings, and, according to Hayman, Biden guarantees that he will be present for at least half of the class time.

Biden used to teach the course alone, Hayman said, but in 2003, the Senator went to our dean ... and told him he just didnt have the time to teach anymore. The two decided that maybe a possibility to reduce the time in the classroom was by taking on a co-teacher ... so they settled on me as his co-teacher, with the understanding then that while he wouldnt be there for the whole class, he would be there for at least half the time...

Hayman said that he manages the administrative duties for the class and that he reads all of the student papers and proposes grades to Biden. The Senator may then suggest changes to the grades Hayman has suggested, but Hayman said that is rare.

I havent had the audacity to ask when he has approved my grades, Well, did you really read them? Hayman said...

Despite Bidens apparent reduced workload when Hayman came on board, the Senators salary from Widener did not significantly drop. In 2001, he reported being paid $19,133 by the university; in 2002, his salary rose to $21,867; and in every year since, his salary has been $20,500.

Bidens paycheck is double what Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) was paid last year for teaching a yearlong seminar at the Georgetown University Law Center.


Good ol Joe really cares for the lil guys

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