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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, will be visiting the University of New Mexico next week to announce a partnership between the federal agency and the state’s largest university.

Brennan will come to Albuquerque for an campus community event titled, “Intelligence and Security Challenges in the Next Decade,” from 3 to 5 p.m., Nov. 10.

He’ll also participate in a question and answer session with Emile Nakhleh, the director of the Global and National Security Policy Institute at UNM.

Brennan is also expected to announce a partnership between the CIA and UNM that would, “provide opportunities for students and faculty,” said Dianne Anderson, a university spokeswoman.

Details about the partnership between the university and the federal agency were not immediately announced Thursday.

The event is open to those with a valid UNM ID. Those interested are also required to RSVP. More information on how to do that is coming later today.

Brennan was sworn in as the director of the CIA in 2013, and previously served as a counterterrorism adviser to President Barack Obama. Reuters recently reported that Brennan announced “the most sweeping” reforms of the CIA’s 69-year-old history 18 months ago to focus on threats from the digital realm.