Mike Pence is set to join Colorado Christian University as a visiting faculty member for the 2026 to 2027 academic year, with monthly trips to the Denver-area campus. The move extends his post-White House role as a public conservative voice and gives the former vice president a regular place on a Christian campus that has already hosted him before.
That is why Pence is back in the search results now: the university has turned a series of appearances into a formal faculty role. Pence served under President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2021, but since leaving office he has moved through conservative classrooms and lecture halls, including a course at Grove City College in Pennsylvania after abandoning his presidential election campaign in 2023 and a semester at George Mason University in Virginia.
Colorado Christian University president Eric Hogue said his friendship with Pence began after he invited him to campus in 2023. Pence later spoke at the university after Trump's 2024 election, then returned this summer for an online course with faculty based on his book What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience. That course drew 28 attendees ages 16 to 60, a small but telling sign that the audience for Pence's campus message is real, if limited.
Hogue's pitch is rooted in fit as much as in politics. He described Pence as someone who is as comfortable at a podium as at a diner table and as a believer shaped by Jesus Christ. Pence, for his part, has framed the work as part of a broader effort to prepare leaders who see faith, freedom, character and constitutional government as inseparable.
That alignment also carries a complication. Pence is working inside a university defined by Christian principles while building a sharper case against Trump-style conservatism, the same political current that still dominates much of the right. He has kept that distance through his own think tank, Advancing American Freedom, while Colorado Christian University has continued to give him a stage, including the Western Conservative Summit this summer.
What remains unknown is what Pence will actually teach once the 2026 to 2027 academic year begins. The university has said he will be on campus once a month, but not which classes or lectures he will lead. For now, the clearest takeaway is that Colorado Christian University is not just hosting Pence as a guest speaker anymore; it is making him part of the school’s academic calendar.
