evidence: From 2017 to 2021, then-former Vice President Joe Biden was the Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. During his time there, he collected more than $900,000. However … … this role was honorary. He gave lectures and talks to students on campus, but did not teach a full semester’s course load during that time. U.S. President Joe Biden once held an honorary professor position at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), from 2017-2021, after being vice president in Barack Obama's administration. However, he did not teach a semester's worth of courses; he primarily gave talks and lectures to students, and he led the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C. Republicans criticized Biden after he claimed that he had been a "full professor" for four years at UPenn during a speech he made in mid-April 2022.