Outgoing Vice President Joe Biden is working on a partnership with the University of Delaware on domestic policy, NBC 10 and other media outlets reported.
A University of Delaware spokesperson declined to comment on the report, which reportedly came from a Biden aide.
Biden had earlier been heard to say that he would form a foreign policy partnership with the University of Pennsylvania in University City Philadelphia.
The news about his affiliation with Penn came as a shock on the UD campus. Biden, a UD graduate, had long been rumored to be returning to his alma mater, perhaps with his name on a campus building.
His name was brought up in a previous plan for a law school at the University of Delaware. The proposal was later dropped for cost reasons.
Biden has maintained ties with UD and spoke at the inauguration of new president Dennis Assanis.
For a time, the university had been viewed as a center for politics, with the campaign leaders for both President Barack Obama and candidate John McCain headed by former UD students.
The university also said he would refrain from associating with a health care institution regarding his push for a “cancer moonshot.” A brain tumor claimed the life of Biden’s son and former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden.
