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Posted on 07/26/2026 9:36:08 AM PDT by DFG
The Defense Department has selected the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech to host a revamped fellowship program for senior military officers — the first universities approved after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth severed partnerships with top universities.
The two universities will participate in the new Senior Service College Fellowship, a 10-month professional military education program that will serve as an alternative to traditional war colleges. Additional university partners will be announced at a later date, according to the department.
“We are deeply honored to participate in the Senior Service College Fellowship program. The program fits well within the context of our mission of service, and we take tremendous pride in our deep, longstanding relationship with the United States military,” Lee H. Roberts, UNC’s chancellor, said in a statement.
The announcement follows an earlier move from Hegseth to bar military officers from attending graduate programs at several elite universities including Harvard University, Brown University, Princeton University and Yale University.
Hegseth, who graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Kennedy School, argued that the universities had become “woke breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination.”
“We demand that senior service colleges work to sharpen our war fighters on genuine national security issues, not social justice activism,” the Pentagon chief said.
Anthony Tata, the undersecretary of Defense for personnel and readiness, said the fellowship overhaul is intended to better prepare senior officers for future conflicts.
“The Department of War is revitalizing professional military education to ensure that our warfighters are prepared to achieve peace through strength,” Tata said in a statement.
“We are proud to partner with Chancellor Roberts and UNC-Chapel Hill — a university with a rich tradition of service and support for our men and women in uniform — to develop a rigorous new Senior Service College Fellowship Program, equipping our officers to meet our critical national security mission,” he continued.
Virginia Tech, which required military training at its founding in 1872, has been invited to host officers from all the military branches as part of the Senior Service College Fellowship Program, according to the school.
UNC said its military ties stretch back to its founding by Revolutionary War commander William Richardson Davie. Three former U.S. presidents were connected to the program: Gerald Ford, who served as an instructor; George H.W. Bush, who trained as a cadet; and Ronald Reagan, who visited as a celebrity performer.
Today, the university says it serves roughly 1,200 military-affiliated students, more than 1,300 military dependents and 150 Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadets and midshipmen.
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UNC had Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, created COVID-19 so Dr. Fauci could turn it over to China and has great basketball teams. Great Choice!
They choked in the CWS this year, though.
Virginia Tech sure. But UNC Chapel Hill?! A liberal snake pit.
Schools don’t get more liberal than UNC. Why not Hillsdale College?
...you go Hokies....!!! (BTW....after all of that hullabaloo, I thought “The Defense Department....” was no longer an operative term....Supposed to call it “The War Department,” nicht wahr??)
Stupid Hill, it will quote people saying “Department of War” and “War Department” but insist on naming it incorrectly using the word “Defense”.
Remember UNC invented COVID. It was developed there and given to China with a set of instructions. The whole thing was developed by Army Intelligence. So, UNC has always been working with the military.
Ja, genau...
What about MIT?
And one can get a STEM or business degree from Harvard and avoid the woke nonsense!
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