Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to be Paid $60,000 to Teach UMich Public Policy Class

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to be Paid $60,000 to Teach UMich Public Policy Class

Higher education is where Democrats go to rake in cash when they’re out of office.

The College Fix reports:

Failed former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot paid $60,000 to teach UMich public policy class

The University of Michigan is spending $60,000 to have ousted Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot co-teach a course on public policy this fall, according to her contract obtained by The College Fix.

Lightfoot is a Democrat whose onerous actions on COVID-19, her refusal to give exclusive interviews to white journalists, and rampant crime during her tenure, among other issues, prompted massive criticism and led to her losing her re-election bid last year to Mayor Brandon Johnson. She has since become a darling of higher education institutions, teaching at Harvard, University of Chicago, and now Michigan.

She is slated to teach the three-credit graduate course with sociology Professor Jeff Morenoff on the Ann Arbor campus to “encourage and equip students for careers in public service,” a news release stated.

She will be paid roughly $15,000 a month. Lightfoot’s two-page contract, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, states the university will pay her $50,000 as well as a $10,000 travel stipend to be a visiting professor in the Ford School of Public Policy.

The class, “Strategic Public Policy Consulting,” will meet once a week for 14 weeks, and Lightfoot must be “present for each class,” according to the contract. Additionally, she must offer at least 1.5 office hours per week.

“Classes will begin with a lecture followed by student consulting teams meeting with you and Professor Jeff Morenoff (there will be a rotation schedule),” it states.

According to the course description, students will “conduct a faculty-supervised consulting project for a public, private, or non-profit sector policy organization” and present a “final report and an oral presentation to the client.”

“The course will pair graduate students with social impact not-for-profit organizations in Chicago and Michigan to solve challenges those groups are facing in the delivery of services in their respective communities,” according to the university news release.

Lightfoot said in the release that she recently began one such nonprofit herself to support “neighborhood vibrancy” and help “community based organizations to build the internal infrastructure they need to remain viable for their communities.”

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