Strickland, 70, gets Harvard fellowship

Associated Press

COLUMBUS

Ted Strickland obviously has a thing for the classroom.

The former Democratic governor of Ohio, who lost his re-election bid in 2010, has two master’s degrees and a doctorate. This spring, at age 70, he’ll return to school again, as a resident fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics.

Strickland said he plans to teach an undergraduate course in class warfare in America. He said he plans to invite speakers who run the gamut from labor unions to corporations.

The class is subtitled “The politics of the rich, the poor and the struggling middle class,” echoing a vocabulary Strickland and fellow Democrats are touting on the political stump.