Celebrity Professors: Which Colleges Nabbed Some This Year?

Those who prescribe to the old adage "those who can't do, teach," will have to think again -- this year, a slew of writers, politicians and even celebrities have joined the ranks of the professoriate.

Following in the footsteps of Jimmy Carter, Maya Angelou and Spike Lee are the most recent crop of celebrity professors -- check them out below.

Did we miss anyone? Let us know in the comments section.

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[Nick Jensen]

09:01 AM on 01/25/2011

NYU nabbed Gordon Brown

[D Blackmon]

09:27 PM on 01/15/2011

Education is vital. By any means necessary.
As we celebrate and get ready to honor the Martin Luther King Holiday
What would Martin Luther King say about 2011.

[rbkilla20]

11:27 AM on 01/11/2011

I tell you how the Bun B class is. It starts in 20 mins!

[Miozotis Pumarol]

02:25 PM on 01/10/2011

you forgot about swiss beatz, he's doing something over at NYU i heard - in the music dept.

[LMPE]

12:19 AM on 01/10/2011

Didn't John Astin at one point teach a college course?

[veritas88]

01:17 AM on 01/15/2011

He teaches theater classes at Johns Hopkins University.

[LMPE]

03:08 PM on 01/15/2011

Tish, you know that drives me mad!

[Angelus2007]

02:58 PM on 01/08/2011

Only 3 of them were celebrities. Wyclef, Todd Rundgren and Bun B (no clue who that is) are celebrities.

[genrel1248]

02:21 PM on 01/08/2011

I am signing up for Rundgren 101! Rock on Hoosiers.

[Accir]

02:48 AM on 01/08/2011

That's my school! :)

[grm1984]

09:20 PM on 01/07/2011

Not my crappy college, that's for sure.

[Demarcus Jackson]

07:48 PM on 01/07/2011

I would love to take a course with Russ Feingold.

[rbkilla20]

04:32 PM on 01/07/2011

Rapper Bun B will be co teaching a Hip Hop and Religion in America class at Rice University this semester.

[Upside]

03:03 PM on 01/07/2011

Strange definition of "celebrity".

[grm1984]

09:20 PM on 01/07/2011

These are academic celebrities. Clearly if you don't know who they are you are not an intelligent being.

[Upside]

01:35 AM on 01/08/2011

I think that the term for academics is "superstar". I have never heard the term "academic celebrity" before. "Academic superstar", yes. "Academic celebrity", not so much.

[Upside]

01:47 AM on 01/08/2011

Just another note: My physics professor in college was S. Chandrasekhar, a gentleman who won the Nobel prize for physics in 1980. I think that he would have been horrified to think of himself as an academic celebrity. He probably would have hated the term "superstar", as well, come to think of it.

[Gutts]

11:52 AM on 01/07/2011

I only recognized one.

[GraphicMatt]

01:31 PM on 01/07/2011

and you are sharing this information why exactly?

[Gutts]

02:42 PM on 01/07/2011

because I can

[grm1984]

09:21 PM on 01/07/2011

That's because you aren't smart. These are very smart people. Only other smart people know who they are.