Back in February of this year, War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon was cutting ties with Harvard and other Ivy League schools for basically being too woke for the U.S. Military.
For years, these schools had a fellowship program affiliated with the military, but as Hegseth explained, it is impossible to serve in the military while being told by your college that the country you serve is a horrible place.
Now Hegseth has announced the schools that will take the place of the Ivies in this program.
The Hill reports:
Hegseth turns to University of North Carolina, Virginia Tech after cutting Ivy League ties
The Defense Department has selected the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech to host a revamped fellowship program for senior military officers — the first universities approved after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth severed partnerships with top universities.
The two universities will participate in the new Senior Service College Fellowship, a 10-month professional military education program that will serve as an alternative to traditional war colleges. Additional university partners will be announced at a later date, according to the department.
“We are deeply honored to participate in the Senior Service College Fellowship program. The program fits well within the context of our mission of service, and we take tremendous pride in our deep, longstanding relationship with the United States military,” Lee H. Roberts, UNC’s chancellor, said in a statement.
The announcement follows an earlier move from Hegseth to bar military officers from attending graduate programs at several elite universities including Harvard University, Brown University, Princeton University and Yale University.
Hegseth, who graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Kennedy School, argued that the universities had become “woke breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination.”
“We demand that senior service colleges work to sharpen our war fighters on genuine national security issues, not social justice activism,” the Pentagon chief said.
In case you missed it, this is the video of Hegseth back in February, explaining why this change was necessary.
BREAKING: SecWar Pete Hegseth just ordered the complete and immediate CANCELLATION of ALL Department of War attendance at leftist universities
– Yale
– Princeton
– Columbia
– MIT
– Brown
– Many othersThe days of the military subsidizing woke indoctrination are OFFICIALLY… pic.twitter.com/pUGFhi9ekc
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 27, 2026
The Ivy League schools could have made changes to avoid this but didn’t.
That speaks volumes about them and their priorities.
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