Pentagon Will Cut Ties With Several Elite Universities, Hegseth Says

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced today that the Pentagon will discontinue academic programs with Princeton University, Yale, Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and many others ahead of the 2026–2027 academic year. “For decades, the Ivy League and similar institutions have gorged themselves on a trust fund of American taxpayer dollars only to become factories of anti-American resentment and military disdain,” Hegseth said in a four-minute video posted on the social media platform X. “There should exist a sacred trust between America’s institutions and our warriors,” he said. “Unfortunately, this sacred trust has been broken in this military’s professional military education system. It’s been poisoned from within by a class of so-called elite universities that have abused their privilege and access to this department and utterly betrayed their purpose.”...