It’s been two weeks since Joe Biden officially joined the University of Pennsylvania, and most of the school’s population is still trying to figure out exactly what he does.
According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, UPenn’s student newspaper, Biden is supposed to be leading the school’s Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, and teach classes as the University’s “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor” in residence.
But Biden’s spokesperson says he isn’t teaching any classes, and the University itself isn’t sure what his plans are. UPenn spokesperson, Stephen MacCarthy, told the newspaper that administrators weren’t able “to have conversations around [Biden’s] specific role until he left office four weeks ago, so details are still being ironed out.”
It’s not even clear where Biden will be based. The University’s diplomacy program is in Pennsylvania, but the director of UPenn’s Washington, DC-based work-study program says that Biden will most likely be based there.
Biden only made his first appearance on the Pennsylvania campus on Tuesday, as part of a forum on cancer research—his main retirement pursuit—and not as part of a speech or program on foreign policy.
For his part, Biden seems to be just enjoying retirement. He’s been traveling the country, picking up accolades for his work as Vice President, and giving heartfelt speeches about his late son, Beau.
He’s been given the 2017 Congressional Patriot Award, from the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Research! America’s Gordon and Llura Gund Leadership Award for his commitment to cancer research, a chairmanship for the National Constitution Center, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He’s also, probably, been waxing his Firebird.