Hidden camera catches college administrators admitting how they lie and cheat to keep DEI under new names

“Woke” initiatives like DEI have been brought to their knees, but a hidden camera proved that it’s not quite dead yet.

Accuracy in Media gave Fox News exclusive footage that purports to show North Carolina A&T State University officials revealing the sneaky way they have kept their DEI efforts hidden. The videos in question were captured in August and September of 2024, following the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors voting to effectively reestablish “institutional neutrality” as the norm instead of DEI measures.

“It shook things up around here, but fortunately for us, this office is not actually under the DEI office at all, so we’re able to just keep going. We just like switched up our, you know, changed the wording of things,” said Pascha Miller, Office of Intercultural Engagement assistant director.

“We don’t use DEI anymore, it’s kind of hard not to use the word ‘diversity,’” she laughs, adding, “We try not to, you know, just to be safe.”

“The word ‘diversity,’ we had to change saying ‘diversity’ to competency,” said Michael Eccles, office manager for the Office of Intercultural Engagement.

“‘Yes,’ Eccles said when asked if he would describe that process as ‘creative naming,’ using the word ‘cleverly’ to describe the method,” Fox News reported.

It’s been a little bit of a challenge, but we’re still pushing through and trying to make sure people get what they need,” he said in a different clip.

“The Board of Governors did a statute in May that is really like, attacking DEI jobs and restricting some of our language. It is very intentionally vague, is what, you know, the way I read it. But it’s really leaving it up to, you know, each university to kind of think about it in their own way and consider how much they want to open themselves up to litigation. But, luckily, I think there’s only been one position that wasn’t lost, it was just changed here,” said Austin Horne, assistant director of LGBTA programs and services at the Office of Intercultural Engagement.

“Just to make sure I understand, so for at least A&T, you’ve not had to like, you’ve just changed or maybe got creative, with some of the language?” asks the undercover journalist.

“Yes,” Horne confirmed.

“To get around the legislation?” the journalist presses further.

“Well, it’s not even to get around the legislation, so what the legislation is, is it’s giving us, I want to say it’s 11 rules for what we can and cannot say when we are speaking on behalf of the university, and so some universities like Charlotte have taken that and said these positions can’t function with these rules in place so we’re just going to get rid of them. Every other public university has said they can function, we’re just going to try and shield ourselves from litigation,” Horne responded.

“Just to appease the politicians?” the journalist clarified.

“Yes, it’s very much, it’s so vague,” the assistant director said.

Accuracy in Media President Adam Guillette called for action in the wake of the video’s publication.

“North Carolina’s universities have been captured by lawbreaking radicals, and they require fundamental reform,” he said. “Any government employee who is caught circumventing laws should never again be allowed to earn a paycheck from taxpayers. And the legislature needs to enact a Kansas-style DEI ban which includes both a reporting mechanism and actual consequences for those who flout the law.”

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