And Thomas Jefferson's likeness is all over this university which now enrolls 21,000 students. Connor Smith is a first year student who plans to attend Kerry's speech.
“Just a cool experience to finally be eighteen and vote in my first election and kind of be more involved in politics and learning more about foreign policy," said Smith.
Kerry is expected to speak about what America gets in return when it invests in foreign policy.
Jeff Legro handles global issues at the university.
“What I think he wants to say is 'We do important things. Investing in what we do helps grow jobs here, it helps keep us out of trouble in situations in the future, that is little bit of prevention a little bit of good foreign policy ahead of time may prevent a problem that will engulf us later,'" said Legro.
The university's global student council met to talk about Wednesday's speech. Some of them are in the ticket lottery to see it, like Paula-Anne Omiyi from Nigeria and Annabelle Larose from Germany.
"For the international committee it is a big sign because we feel like it will emphasize our voice," said Larose.
"I think it will definitely be very important to all of us, in light of our school work, in terms of writing papers and in applying what we have understood and learned from him," said a Nigerian student.
And that type of teaching from a live historical event will echo throughout these classrooms.
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