Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth's crackdown on 'biased' schools

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign against schools he describes as being biased against the US military and sponsoring “troublesome partnerships with foreign adversaries.”

The uncertainty about tuition assistance and eligible programs for Defense Department funding has led to confusion and concern amongst service members who have already applied or been accepted to these schools. Officials also said they were concerned it amounted to an attempt to purge diversity of thought from the military.

The policy was rolled out in a memo signed by Hegseth last week saying that beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, the Pentagon would be severing its relationship with Harvard University and discontinuing all graduate-level professional military education, fellowships and certificate programs there for active-duty service members.

Hegseth ordered the military services to “evaluate all existing graduate programs for active-duty members at Ivy League universities and any other universities that similarly diminish critical thinking and have significant adversary involvement, and determine whether they deliver cost-effective, strategic education for future senior leaders when compared to public universities and military masters programs,” according to a source familiar with the memo.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-may-bar-tuition-aid-222512541.html

[Initech]

1. Does Whiskey Pete know he used to work for the most biased network in human history?

Fox is so biased it's not even funny. He can go fuck himself.

[msongs]

2. make em all go to liberty U? nt

[PittBlue]

3. When will this nightmare end?

I used to watch the Twilight Zone as a kid. I never thought that I would be living in an episode.

[sakabatou]

5. The only way it ends is when Dump's admin and hired are flushed out and fired

[xocetaceans]

6. How about going all the way and fully separating ROTC from the college and university system? Leave it to the academies

to train new officers: if more are needed, the service academies should be expanded.

ROTC is orthogonal to actual education and exists merely as a means of exploiting of the failure of the US to provide its children a reasonable pathway to obtaining a meaningful post-high-school education.

That is not to say that the military does not need quality officers, but actual colleges and universities should be kept separated from the military. The study of humanist traditions and of the mathematico-philosophical traditions that eventually gave rise to the sciences is fundamentally different in both character and objective from the study of the massing and application of force (along with the accompanying and necessary indoctrination into military culture that ROTC offers).

What Was Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth ’03 Like at Princeton?
Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, was a basketball player, a politics major, and a brash publisher of The Princeton Tory

By Hope Perry ’24 and Elisabeth Hulette Daugherty
Published Nov. 13, 2024

. . .

Hegseth played varsity basketball and served as a company commander for the ROTC. On the basketball team he “patiently toiled in obscurity” for four years, according to The Daily Princetonian, which also described Hegseth as “a recruiting afterthought.” When he was called off the bench in March of his senior year and made two 3-pointers that allowed the Tigers to best Columbia, he “beamed as he reflected on taking a leading role.”

. . .

https://paw.princeton.edu/article/what-was-defense-secretary-nominee-pete-hegseth-03-princeton

It seems with Hegseth that the education did not take, and that none of the ideas related to actual honor sank in either. So, both
the university and ROTC failed him. Sadly, he did not even have the NBA as a fall-back option. Were it only that Hegseth were merely the point guard for the Boston Celtics now!

[UTUSN]

7. Teh Hegs don't want no nobody to be more studyied than himself!

[Takket]

8. this is insanity... how can one person just pick and choose favorites like this?

For the entire military? this is FUCKING OVER the soldiers but denying them their freedom to choose! Tell me this is going to be challenged in court somehow.........