The War Department cuts ties with Harvard because of the ‘awakened’ views under Hegseth

The Army Department said Friday it will end all military professional education, fellowship and certificate programs with Harvard University.

Secretary of the Army Pete Hegseth criticized the university in a video announcement posted on X, saying the department will sever ties with Harvard for active duty members beginning in the 2026-27 school year — a move he said is “long overdue.”

“Harvard is up; the War Department isn’t,” Hegseth said.

Although Hegseth, who holds a master’s degree from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, said that the US military has had a “rich tradition” with the Ivy League school, he argued that Harvard has become one of the “hot centers for promoting Hate America.”

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“There are too many members of the unit who clearly hate our soldiers. They put our soldiers in a bad light and oppress anyone who challenges their leftist political leanings, while charging tuition. It’s not fair,” he said. “They have replaced open questioning and honest debate with rigid orthodoxy.”

The announcement comes amid the Trump administration’s ongoing conflict with the Ivy League school.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he is seeking $1 billion in damages from Harvard University, which the Trump administration has made the first target in its effort to secure federal funding to combat dissent and “reawaken” ideas.

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Attorneys for the Trump administration have appealed a judge’s order requiring the return of $2.7 billion in frozen federal research funding to Harvard. The university sued the administration in April over the funding freeze, arguing in court that the move amounts to an unconstitutional “pressure campaign” aimed at influencing and controlling higher education institutions.

Hegseth also criticized the Harvard campus environment, saying that research programs are affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party and that the university’s leadership has encouraged an atmosphere of celebration of Hamas, which allows attacks on Jews, and prioritizes programs of diversity, equality and inclusion.

“Why should the Department of Defense support an environment that harms our nation and policies that the majority of Americans hold dear?” Hegseth said. “The answer to that question is that it shouldn’t, and it won’t.”

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Secretary of the Army Pete Hegseth announced that military education programs with Harvard University will end in the 2026-27 academic year. (Omar Havana/Getty Images)

“For a long time, this department has sent our best and brightest officials to Harvard, hoping that the university will better understand and appreciate our class of heroes,” he continued. “Instead, many of our officers have come back looking like Harvard – heads full of worldviews and rigid ideas that do not improve our fighting quality.”

In addition to Harvard, Hegseth took aim at much of the Ivy League, saying the schools have “pervasive institutional bias” and a lack of diversity of opinion, including a “toxic mix of ideas,” which he said undermines the military’s work.

He said that in the coming weeks, all departments in the Pentagon will examine existing degree programs for active members at Ivy League schools and other private universities.

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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has described Harvard as one of America’s “hottest centers of hate mongering.” (Associated Press)

“The goal is to find out if they’re delivering the most cost-effective strategic education for tomorrow’s top leaders, compared to, say, public universities and our military graduate programs,” he said. “At the Department of the Army, we’re going to try to increase the number of taxpayer dollars in building people who kill for our defense. It’s that simple. That doesn’t include spending millions of dollars on expensive universities that are disrupting our work and hurting our country.”

Hegseth concluded his message by saying, “We train heroes, not wokesters. Harvard, good riddance.”

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Harvard University did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Brian Flood of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.