NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is headed to Harvard this fall as a teaching fellow at the university’s schools of government and public health.
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De Blasio, a Democrat who served as mayor from from 2014 to 2021, will take part in “a variety of discussions, events, and programming” at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School and will teach classes on leadership and public service at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the schools said in separate announcements Wednesday.
Kim Janey, the former acting mayor of Boston, will also serve as a fellow at the public health school.
“We are thrilled to welcome Mayor de Blasio and Mayor Janey to campus as Menschel Senior Leadership Fellows,” Dean Michelle A. Williams said.
Williams said both officials grappled with public health crises including COVID-19, homelessness and the opioid epidemic.
“Their insights and their mentorship will be tremendously helpful to students who aspire to public office, as well as to those who are looking to lead in other sectors,” she said.
At the Institute of Politics, de Blasio will be joined by other fellows including former Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven.
Setti Warren, interim director of the institute, said de Blasio’s “decades of experience in local government, federal agencies, national campaigns, and running the largest city in the country will provide invaluable insight to our students and the Harvard community.”
De Blasio, who grew up in Massachusetts and is a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan, was prevented by term limits from seeking a third four-year term as mayor.
After an unsuccessful campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, de Blasio flirted this year with running for governor of New York and later mounted a brief run for a congressional district that includes his Brooklyn home. Former federal prosecutor and Trump impeachment counsel Daniel Goldman secured the Democratic nomination for that seat in a primary Tuesday.
Those who can….do, those can’t teach! Shame on Harvard for recycling this failure.
From politics to academia, that’s a natural progression. Two professions that produce nothing of substance, Other than radical, ignorant savages , and where there is zero accountability
Yet another liberal/progressive, talentless, blowhard to inculcate our children with his poison
The System takes care of its own.
What is he going to teach, ‘How to destroy a safe prosperous city 101’, topics include make your city into a dangerous cesspool, increase crime, chase police officers off the force in record numbers, and create a homeless and mental health crisis (for starters)!?
Also included in the course is how to be a derelict leader and not work, show up late when you do and then go walking in the park for hours in the afternoon as well.
I heard the perk that they offered that got him to accept the offer was a free gym membership!
What a JOKE, Harvard must be smoking the same marijuana that he did and does.
They just killed their ‘name’ with this appointment!
Yeh right. And Obama was allegedly a teacher in Harvard but yet not a single student ever came forward and said, yes, Obama was my teacher.
What was it Mama said to Forrest Gump? Oh yes, “you can’t fix stupid”.
What will he teach? How to paint BLM slogans on streets?
How to bring down a city?
Maybe he can run for office there.
Once great Harvard has gone to the dogs
Bill fjcc aguda de blasio can only teach how to steal
Rabbi Poupko going to join him? Maybe Getz and Kornblou too.
Yet more proof . Don’t send your kids to college.
This man is a deranged sociopath, when he he going to get sued for the forced vaccinations, and the thousands he murdered with the forced death shots? Nobody isd more evil than de Blasio , hr lesd the way with forced vaccinations, the man deserves to be hung in the public square under Nurenberg laws
Certainly a better position than former governor David Paterson . Not knocking touro but still