President Barack Obama will come back to Columbia University after he goes out, the college’s leader demonstrated amid conferences at the New York school.
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The official word from the White House is, “The President has always respected Columbia University, and wants to continue working with the Ivy League school, but for the record, no plans have been finalized about what the President will do when his second term comes to an end”.
Bollinger said at Convocation this afternoon that he is looking forward to “welcoming back our most famous alumnus…in 2017”.
The student newspaper said he did not specify “what type of role or presence” President Obama would have on the campus, so it is possible that Mr. Bollinger was referring to a short-term visit, not a longer-term appointment. We’re checking with Columbia PR, and we’ll update you when we hear back.
Obama graduated from Columbia in 1983 earning his bachelor’s in political science with a specialty in global relations.
Columbia also released a statement saying Bollinger was only repeating what Obama said in the past and was not a new development concerning his plans.
But the White House was quick to stop the speculation, reports CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller.
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Rumors about the president, joining the Columbia staff have been circulating since April, when the New York Post reported that he was in talks to teach as a professor at Columbia Law School after he leaves office. He previously taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago.
