Hegseth directs military service academies to immediately stop giving tenure to civilian professors

TL;DR

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo to stop civilian faculty tenure at military academies.
Hegseth believes tenure contributes to academic stagnation and curriculum drift from warfighting readiness.
The goal is to address mechanisms that have allowed civilian academic norms to dilute the focus on lethality.
This action follows reports of Pentagon officials considering an end to civilian tenure and a review of courses.
The service academies' faculty comprises active-duty officers and civilians.
Tenure has historically been granted to civilian faculty members at these academies.
Hegseth has previously expressed a desire for more uniformed members to teach at academies and has criticized influences from 'left-wing, woke universities'.

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