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. Hegseth added that the ban would also include "many others," claiming the higher education system has been "poisoned from within from a class of so-called elite universities who’ve abused their privilege and access to this department and utterly betrayed their purpose."
Hegseth’s announcement comes after he similarly banned active-duty service members earlier this month from attending Harvard starting next year.