As vice president in 2016, Joe Biden stands with Army Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen, then the superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., at the school’s commencement. Biden will give commencement speech at the Class of 2024 graduation next month. (U.S. Army)

President Joe Biden will give the commencement speech next month to the Class of 2024 at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., according to a White House official.

The White House is expected to make the formal announcement Tuesday afternoon, according to the official who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. The West Point graduation is scheduled for May 25 at Michie Stadium with roughly 1,000 cadets graduating and commissioning into the Army as second lieutenants.

As vice president, Biden twice addressed a graduating class of cadets at the academy in upstate New York, but this will be his first time to do so as president. Donald Trump was the last president to speak at West Point commencement in 2020.

The speech typically rotates among the president, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, vice president and defense secretary, according to the university’s historical list of commencement speakers. Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to the West Point Class of 2023.

Biden will give the commencement speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., the week prior, according to the White House official.

The decision has caused some concern among the historically Black university’s faculty, according to NBC News. Morehouse and many other college campuses have been fraught with protests over the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

While it is unknown what Biden will speak about during his commencement speeches, he typically includes references to current events. Speaking to graduates at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado last year, Biden referenced Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine and growing global instability caused by food insecurity and natural disasters.