Alberto Gonzales to Teach at Texas Tech

Updated: Alberto Gonzales, who resigned his Bush administration post as U.S. attorney general in August 2007, will be teaching a political science course at Texas Tech University this fall.

“It’s a one-year gig, and I’m going to come in and teach one course in the fall. It will probably be on national security issues," Gonzales told Tex Parte Blog.

The Austin American-Statesman's Postcards blog says that a business assistant in the university's political science department said Gonzales will be teaching a "special topics" course on contemporary issues in the executive branch.

Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that Gonzales will start Aug. 1, and that his salary will be around $100,000.

“Anytime I can get a former cabinet member to work for the university, I will,” Hance said. “He can teach (students) about government, about goals, about diversity. Here’s a guy whose parents were migrant workers, and he went on to one of the highest offices in the land.”

The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times said that Gonzales will help Texas Tech and Angelo State University “with recruiting and retaining first generation and underrepresented students,” quoting a statement from Texas Tech.

Gonzales told Tex Parte that he isn't necessarily thinking BigLaw when this year at Texas Tech is up.

"I’ve been open to the possibility to going back to a big-firm job,” Gonzales told Tex Parte. “But I’m ambivalent about going back as a partner. I’ve done that. And I worry that I would lose my flexibility to do other things. But if the right opportunity came along, I’d consider it."

Gonzales told the American-Statesman in January that he was busy writing a book.

Last updated July 8 to include comments from Gonzales.