{"id":80927,"date":"2026-02-28T09:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=80927"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:23:33","slug":"hegseth-bans-military-from-attending-princeton-columbia-other-elite-universities-wokeness-and-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/hegseth-bans-military-from-attending-princeton-columbia-other-elite-universities-wokeness-and-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth Bans Military From Attending Princeton, Columbia, Other Elite Universities: &#8216;Wokeness And Weakness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> Fox News<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Secretary of War\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/pete-hegseth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>\u00a0on Friday said he was ordering the &#8220;complete and immediate cancellation&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Hegseth added that the ban would also include &#8220;many others,&#8221; claiming the higher education system has been &#8220;poisoned from within from a class of so-called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/campus-controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elite universities<\/a> who\u2019ve abused their privilege and access to this department and utterly betrayed their purpose.&#8221;\u00a0 Hegseth\u2019s announcement comes after he similarly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/hegseth-ending-military-education-ties-harvard-amid-trump-feud-we-train-warriors-not-wokesters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banned active-duty service members<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month from attending Harvard starting next year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1772270613\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Hegseth Bans Military From Attending Princeton, Columbia, Other Elite Universities: &#8216;Wokeness And Weakness&#8217;\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: Secretary of War\u00a0Pete Hegseth\u00a0on Friday said he was ordering the &#8220;complete and immediate cancellation&#8221; of all Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}