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Bennett and Wilhelm to work at University of Akron
The University of Akron’s Bliss Institute of Applied Politics is adding two heavy hitters to its line up: former Ohio GOP Chairman Bob Bennett and former Clinton campaign manager David Wilhelm.
Bennett will be a visiting lecturer in the fall 2010 semester and Wilhelm will do so in winter 2011. Bennett and Wilhelm will give lectures, hold small group meetings, consult faculty and attend public events.
They will be compensated $50,000 each, using Bliss Institute endowment funds, said Bliss Institute Director John Green. Each will be on campus at least six full days per semester, he said.
“We will actually be getting a lot more contact hours than we’ve had with guest speakers on campus,” Green said. He noted that Colin Powell was recently paid $120,000 as a guest speaker at the university.
Republican John Kasich was paid $50,000 a year as a presidential fellow at Ohio State University for seven years and his long-time staffer was paid $20,000 as a campus aide. Gov. Ted Strickland has been highly critical of the arrangement.
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