Department of War cuts ties with Harvard University

Beginning with the 2026–27 school year, graduate-level military education, fellowships and certificate programs will cease at Harvard.

“For too long, this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class,” DOW Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

“Instead, too many of our officers came back looking too much like Harvard – heads full of globalist and radical ideologies that do not improve our fighting ranks.”

In a separate X post, Secretary Hegseth said, “Harvard is woke; The War Department is not.”

The DOW and wider Trump administration have long targeted Harvard through billions of dollars in research funding being cut and attempts to prevent foreign students from enrolling.

This followed several instances of the university repeatedly pushing back against government demands.

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Secretary Hegseth added that the university is “incongruent with military and American values and interests”.

“Campus research programs have partnered with the Chinese Communist Party,” Secretary Hegseth said in reference to Harvard’s history of training Chinese officials, accepting significant funding, and conducting joint research with sanctioned entities.

“And university leadership encouraged a campus environment that celebrated Hamas, allowed attacks on Jews, and still promotes discrimination based on race in violation of Supreme Court decisions,” he added.

The DOW said they will examine future military education programs as well as relationships with other universities to establish whether they are beneficial for military and defence development.

“That no longer includes spending billions of dollars on expensive universities that actively undercut our mission and undercut our country”.

Secretary Hegseth has a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard but figuratively returned his diploma on Fox News in 2022.