The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech are the first universities approved for the War Department’s Senior Service College Fellowship program since Secretary Pete Hegseth ended military education partnerships with several Ivy League schools.

The 10-month fellowship serves as an alternative to traditional war colleges for senior military officers. The War Department said additional university partners will be announced later.

The approvals follow Hegseth’s decision to bar military officers from attending graduate programs at Brown University, Harvard University, Princeton University and Yale University as part of an overhaul of professional military education, The Hill reported.

Hegseth, an alum of Princeton and the Harvard Kennedy School, said the Ivy League schools have become “woke breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination.”

“We are deeply honored to participate in the Senior Service College Fellowship program,” UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Lee H. Roberts said in a statement.

“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.”

Anthony J. Tata, undersecretary of war for personnel and readiness, said in a statement that the partnership is part of the department’s effort to revitalize professional military education.

“Under the leadership of Secretary Hegseth, the Department of War is revitalizing Professional Military Education to ensure that our warfighters are prepared to achieve peace through strength,” Tata said.

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