March 1 (UPI) -- The Defense Department is ending its relationships with several Ivy League universities and think tanks that service members are permitted to attend.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ended graduate school fellowships at 22 institutions starting with the 2026-2027 academic years, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale, Princeton, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and The Brookings Institution, according to a memo released by the DOD.
The memo follows a Feb. 7 announcement that the DOD would end stop sending officers to Harvard as part of its Senior Service College Fellowship programs, which Hegseth said in the memo is being retooled and offered list of institutions that offer equivalent programs.
Like Harvard, the expanded list of institutions the department is removing from its SSC programs are alleged to be "woke" and no longer meet requirements for officers in the armed forces.
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