ASHLAND — Former Vice President Mike Pence is planning a visit to Ashland this week during the Ashbrook Center’s 34th John M. Ashbrook Memorial Dinner.
Pence will serve as the event’s keynote speaker, the center has announced.
The dinner is a fundraiser for the Ashbrook Scholar Program, which offers students $2,000 scholarships to be immersed “in the works of our nation’s greatest thinkers and the ability to engage well-known speakers who visit campus.”
The program is available to students studying political science, history, pre-law, international relations and social studies education. The scholarships are renewable annually.
Pence, who last visited Ashland University in 2016, joins other prominent figures who have spoken at the Ashbrook Center including George H.W. Bush, Colin Powell, Margaret Thatcher and others.
Pence served as vice president from 2017-2021 following a Republican governorship of Indiana that began when elected in 2012. Prior to that, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2001-2013.
“The Ashbrook Center is on the front lines of revolutionizing history education by engaging students and teachers in conversations about primary source documents,” said Jeffrey Sikkenga, the Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center. “By exposing students to the truths at the heart of the American story, including through meeting and speaking directly to the public figures who are writing it, Ashbrook’s Scholar Program is molding the next generation of leaders.”
President Ronald Reagan established the Ashbrook Center in 1983 with the purpose of teaching American’s founding principles.
The event is open to the public but registration has closed.
