US EditionHegseth cancels troop attendance at top-ranked schools
The Pentagon will end nearly 100 fellowship slots and tuition assistance at Ivy League and elite universities, citing concerns over anti-American sentiment and ideological indoctrination.
- Hegseth announced on Friday the 'complete and immediate cancellation' of Department of Defense attendance at Princeton, Columbia, MIT, Brown, Yale and many others starting the 2026-2027 academic year.
- Framing the move as protecting military values, Hegseth argued the department must stop subsidizing education promoting 'woke' ideology that weakens service members' commitment.
- A list of 33 schools emerged online last week after an Army JAG warned troops to "have a backup plan," prompting a DoD review following earlier action that blacklisted Harvard University and targets tuition assistance and graduate professional military education programs.
- Service members face immediate effects as one prospective active‑duty student said the announcement deflated them and top U.S. colleges face financial strain while Harvard fights back legally.
- Amid broader scrutiny of university ties, the Pentagon will conduct a top-to-bottom review of internal war colleges to refocus education on warfighting, but officials did not release a full list of impacted schools.
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Hegseth bans military from attending Princeton, Columbia, other elite universities: ‘Wokeness and weakness’
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Friday said he was ordering the "complete and immediate cancellation" of all Department of War attendants at universities like Princeton, Columbia, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Brown and Yale, starting with the 2026-27 academic year.
Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and other top universities, including partners on AI and space
"We will no longer invest in institutions that fail to sharpen our leaders' warfighting capabilities or that undermine the very values they are sworn to defend."
Pete Hegseth bans military from 'woke' elite universities he attended
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who earned his master's degree from Harvard University in 2013, has launched a sweeping campaign to cut military ties with the very elite universities where he was educated, denouncing them as bastions of "wokeness" and "wicked ideologies," The New York Times reported Saturday.In a video posted to social media on Friday, Hegseth lambasted the prestigious institutions as politically liberal schools engaged in indoc…
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