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Pete Hegseth: “The Ivy League as a whole has pervasive institutional bias…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Harvard Is Woke But the War Department Is Not, Says Hegseth | Debate Over Campus & Military Culture

Published | Video Starts at 04:22

This policy applies to service members enrolling in future courses of study at Harvard University while on active duty. Now any currently enrolled service members will be allowed to finish their course of study with some exceptions. The Ivy League as a whole has pervasive institutional bias and a lack of viewpoint diversity, including the coddling of toxic ideologies that undercuts and our mission right here in this building. That is why in two weeks time, components of all of our departments, Army, Navy and Air Force will evaluate all existing graduate programs for active duty service members at all Ivy League universities and other civilian universities. (04:22–04:35)

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Asserts that Ivy League schools have institutional bias and lack viewpoint diversity, affecting military missions.

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