Harvard Offers Military Students Backups After Hegseth Ban

Harvard University is allowing military students to defer their admission and arranging for alternative schooling options after the Pentagon said it was severing academic ties with the elite university.

The institution’s John F. Kennedy School of Government said that active-duty military students would be able to defer their acceptance for as many as four years. Typically the school only considers one-year deferrals under special circumstances. Also, Harvard arranged for students to receive “expedited consideration” at other schools including the University of Chicago, Tufts University, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan.