Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, will host an election night event at her alma mater, Howard University, next Tuesday, a university spokesperson confirmed. Inside Higher Education.

The Harris-Walz campaign will host an event on campus as votes come in. Classes will be held remotely on Monday and canceled on Tuesday to encourage students to vote. accordingly Top of the HillHoward’s student newspaper. The campus will be closed to the public on Tuesday.

The historically Black university in Washington, D.C., has been a key part of Harris’ candidacy since she announced in July that she would replace President Biden. Fraternity Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alumni mobilized their members was about to campaign for himself and held a debate prep session there before his debate against Republican candidate Donald Trump in August. When he announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination in 2019, it was from Howard.

Harris’ alma mater has been busy for a long time special place in your life—and the story of his path to the vice presidency. In his memoirs, Howard also wrote: “There was no need to be trapped in another person’s chosen framework.”

“At Howard,” he wrote, “you can come as you are and leave as the person you aspire to be.”

He could leave campus Tuesday night as the first president-elect of the United States to be an HBCU graduate.