OH, NO U. DIDN’T!
Univ. denies Joe studied there
Delaware State University denied that Joe Biden has ever been a student there — after the presidential candidate said last year that he “got started” at the historically black college.
The 77-year-old Democrat made the claim while praising historically black colleges and universities — often called HBCUs — during a town-hall event last October before the South Carolina Democratic primary, video shows.
“I got started out of a HBCU, Delaware State,” he told students at Wilson HS in Florence, which was founded in 1866 by the Freedmen’s Bureau for black children seeking an education.
“Now, I don’t want to hear anything negative about Delaware State. They’re my folks,” he told the highschool students to chuckles.
The university last week said he had only been a commencement speaker there decades after his start in politics.
“Vice President Biden did not attend DSU,” the college’s director of news service, Carlos Holmes, told the Washington Times.
Rather, he was a commencement keynote speaker in 2003 and 2016 — a far cry from the start of the political career for Biden, who has been a senator for Delaware since 1973. He was “awarded an honorary doctoral degree” but was never a student, Holmes said.
DSU — founded in 1891 as the State College for Colored Students — is about 40 miles south of the University of Delaware, where Biden graduated in 1965 with a double major in political science and history.
He went on to study at Syracuse University College of Law — where he failed a class after being accused of plagiarism.
His career since then has been dogged by accusations of misleading voters, including over his education.
At a town hall in September, he incorrectly claimed that if elected he would be the first president without an Ivy League degree.
Biden has also said he was the first in his family to go to college — but he admitted to The New York Times in 1987 that this claim wasn’t true.
Biden’s rep did not immediately respond to requests for comment.