Some 31 years after President Ronald Reagan traveled to the University of Virginia and gave his final foreign policy address, he is making a triumphant return to Charlottesville via the first college-level course dedicated to the Gipper.

Biographer Craig Shirley, who has penned four books on Reagan, including Last Act on the post-presidency years up to the president’s 2004 death, is set to teach “Lessons in Leadership: Reagan,” this fall at the university’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.