In Kentucky, HB 4 prohibits DEI in higher education including training, scholarships, and other programs like affirmative action. However, a Sociology professor reveals that DEI still runs rampant through many facets of liberal arts studies at the University of Louisville.

Accuracy in Media sent an undercover journalist to speak to Karen Christopher, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Louisville to uncover the truth behind the state of the DEI ban in higher education. 

Academics like Christopher often search for any gap in the law to continue their DEI agenda. She knows the extent of HB 4, and makes special note that “all curriculum is excluded” from the current DEI ban. 

In further discussing the scope of HB 4, the professor reassured our journalist that, “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is central to the field of Sociology…I’m teaching it exactly the same…curriculum has not been touched, yet…[s]o in terms of the classes you would take, nothing would change.”

The professor also cites hope in the new University of Louisville president, Gerry Bradley, claiming that “…a lot of faculty and staff like [Gerry Bradley] better on issues of DEI…. Kentucky is a very conservative legislature…he’s said a lot of the right things to faculty and staff, like oh look we still value this.”

However, Christopher acknowledges that the Kentucky legislature likely intends to include curriculum in this ban, knowing that if it happens she will no longer be able to teach her classes “exactly the same” as she does now under the current HB 4 language.

If the bill’s intention was to protect students from overtly political professors and their influence, then it would also seek to prohibit DEI from infecting the curriculum that students are subjected to every day. 

Take action at DEIinKentucky.com and send a message to relevant elected officials to close the gaps and protect higher education.

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Despite state and federal bans to halt Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs in higher education, an undercover investigation by Accuracy in Media suggests business is continuing as usual at Texas State University.

Hidden-camera footage captures Gloria Martinez-Ramos, Director of the Center for Gender Studies, openly acknowledging that DEI-related coursework and programming remain firmly in place, largely untouched by recent legal changes.

When asked by the investigator how new laws are affecting DEI at Texas State, Martinez-Ramos was blunt: “The law doesn’t apply to academics.”

She went on to explain that while certain structures may have been adjusted, the substance of DEI has not changed. “In other words, the courses are still on, we’re still here… I still have academic freedom, professors have academic freedom. The academics are still there.”

According to Martinez-Ramos, faculty have simply adapted their language. “Just a little of the language has changed but not a whole lot,” she said. “You don’t call it a diversity statement—you call it your teaching philosophy.”

She further advised the journalist that course descriptions could still include DEI-aligned content under different terminology. “You could still say topics related to multiculturalism… Just don’t say diversity, equity, or inclusion.”

Shockingly, the footage suggests that leadership within Texas State are aware of these workarounds, and supportive of them.

“The president is supporting this,” Martinez-Ramos said, referencing Kelly Damphousse. “But nobody wants to make it public because then they will come down on him. Just keep it quiet.”

Recalling a conversation, Martinez-Ramos said her dean referred to those advocating for a colorblind approach to education as living in “fantasy and delusion,” adding, “They want us all to be vanilla!”

Martinez-Ramos made clear that core academic content remains unaffected. “That was the intent,” she said of the legislation, “but the language in the law doesn’t say you can’t teach critical race theory… feminist theory… intersectional theories.”

“These courses are intact.”

Martinez-Ramos then emphasized that DEI academic programming has been deeply embedded over decades. “We’ve been building this up for the last 20 years,” she said. “It’s hard for them to undo all this.”

Take action now by visiting DEIinTexas.com, where you can send one message directly to university trustees and state officials demanding accountability. No taxpayer should have to fund a school that defies federal and state law.

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The University of Kentucky’s efforts to keep Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion up and running appear to extend to every area of campus, according to the countless faculty admissions uncovered by Accuracy in Media. 

UK Director of the Martin Luther King Center Ja’Mahl McDaniel is the latest to be caught on AIM’s hidden camera discussing how “antiracist work” is happening at the university. 

He told AIM’s undercover journalist that the university’s College of Social Work is “rooted in social justice” and known as “a very very strong college here.”

McDaniel also acknowledged the various policies against DEI, noting that, “In the state level, yes DEI is not something that we can facilitate in the ways that people assume DEI to be, right, so anything that seems like it is rooted in race, gender orientation or feels like it is not neutral, right, to different political viewpoints and all those things, then you won’t see that happen at the institution level.” 

But, he made it clear that these laws aren’t stopping DEI. “That does not mean that like there isn’t work that, the way that I understand and know what antiracist work is, that doesn’t mean we aren’t still doing it in different ways,” he said. 

McDaniel also added that there is a gray area to what he called “inclusion work.” 

Kentucky state legislators voted to override a veto by Democratic Governor Andy Beshear last year and enact a DEI ban in public institutions of higher education. 

At the time, State Rep. Vanessa Grossl said, “DEI is costing our taxpayers millions of dollars and has largely been an embarrassing failure in our commonwealth.” 

If that weren’t enough, President Donald Trump’s administration has enacted several anti-DEI executive orders, warning public universities of the financial risk of continuing their DEI crusades. 

Even so, universities like UK are time and time again caught continuing to push DEI and woke ideology by any means they can. That comes in the form of “gray area” and language adjustments–but the destructive content remains. 

Part of how these universities manage to preserve DEI is by deferring to their accreditation criteria. 

They point to the fact that the Council on Social Work Education mandates that DEI be taught as part of an accredited degree program. According to a 2022 copy of CSWE’s standards for accreditation, programs must “Engage Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI) in Practice.” This is considered one of nine “core competencies.”

Several states have taken action into their own hands, developing their own accreditation bodies that don’t have DEI requirements. This would prevent social work programs from using the CSWE loophole to preserve their DEI indoctrination. 

Kentucky must take similar steps to develop its own accreditation body, otherwise its DEI bans will remain hollow, leaving taxpayers on the hook for ongoing woke ideology being taught at state universities. 

Visit DEIInKentucky.com now to take action. There, you can send one convenient message to all relevant parties. Tell them that covert DEI efforts can’t continue on the University of Kentucky’s campus.

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Universities in Ohio haven’t dropped Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), even after the state passed a law directing them to do so. 

This appears to be the case at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), where one administrator admitted to very few changes to course material aside from changing class names. 

“While we have been impacted to an extent by some of the political dynamics at the state level, I think the impact has been relatively minimal,” BGSU Department of Human Services Chair and Professor Adam Watkins said on Accuracy in Media’s hidden camera. 

He explained to AIM’s undercover investigator how the social work program manages to get around state and federal DEI policies. 

“They have had to rename a few courses to align with certain expectations set by the state. However, the social work program does have an accrediting body specific to their discipline that requires, in order for them to maintain accreditation, that they still include components in the curriculum that align with some of the things that you just mentioned,” Watkins said. 

AIM’s investigative journalist had asked about the presence of DEI and intersectionality in the BGSU program, as compared with a program in a Democratically run state such as New York. 

The difference in locale actually could make BGSU more focused on “inclusivity,” Watkins suggested. 

He explained that due to the school’s location, being in Ohio, and its “more homogenous student group” the program may “place more emphasis” on DEI to prepare students for environments they haven’t been exposed to. 

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a law banning many DEI efforts on college campuses. While this measure barred many of the avenues universities use to inject DEI into daily life, administrators have a loophole to ensure it remains a part of social work programs. 

Programs across the country, including in Ohio, are pointing to the Council on Social Work Education and its criteria requiring DEI for degree program accreditation. 

As Watkins and others have alluded to, these programs are able to keep promoting DEI and fall back on CSWE’s accreditation standards. 

But several states are taking matters into their own hands. Florida, Georgia, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Tennessee, have taken steps to establish their own accreditation bodies that don’t require DEI, to close this loophole. 

Every state needs to follow these steps to make sure taxpayers aren’t beholden to the accreditation standards of the CSWE. 

AIM is on the ground in states that have supposedly done away with DEI. If one thing is clear, it’s that activist administrators aren’t willing to stop prioritizing DEI–even if it means bending the rules and disguising their woke ideology from lawmakers. 

We won’t let these universities pull the wool over taxpayers’ eyes as they keep DEI at the center of college education. 

Visit DEIInOhio.com and send one convenient message to all the relevant trustees. Tell them these DEI efforts are against the law in Ohio and it’s time for the Buckeye State to take accreditation into its own hands.

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Arizona State University has already been exposed several times by Accuracy in Media for its defiance of federal policies against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. 

AIM has now caught yet another ASU administrator confirming that DEI is secretly continuing at the university. 

“I know that the new legislation has asked us to eliminate it, but it’s in our hearts in education, so education has that just naturally,” said Veronica McDaniel, a recruitment specialist at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation. 

In conversation with AIM’s undercover investigative journalist, McDaniel also admitted that Fulton College’s curriculum “hasn’t changed much,” despite federal law. In other words, future generations of teachers are still being exposed to DEI, which will influence how they treat children in their classrooms.

She reassured the journalist that DEI remains part of the curriculum in Fulton College, adding that prospective students shouldn’t be scared about it being removed.  

President Trump has used executive orders to prevent institutions that push woke ideology from receiving taxpayer money. Last year, the Arizona State Board of Education moved to begin stripping DEI from state standards in order to comply with federal law and avoid losing this crucial federal funding.

McDaniel is not the first ASU official to divulge the university’s ongoing DEI efforts. In fact, AIM has uncovered several faculty members who made similar admissions about ASU’s brazen defiance. 

Undergraduate Services Enrollment Coach Megan Neumann previously revealed that DEI is still being actively incorporated, telling AIM’s investigator: “I know even within our team, like, we have had to be cautious about the DEI, but we’re not like straying away from it, but we just have to be cautious in communicating with students.”

And she’s not the only one to acknowledge the subterfuge. Chandra Crudup, Associate Dean of Inclusive Design for Equity and Access, admitted on hidden camera, “We started changing language.”

“But we are still doing the same thing,” she told AIM’s investigator. 

ASU faculty have shown an unwavering commitment to DEI, even when doing so puts hundreds of millions in federal funding on the line. And they think they can get away with it so long as they adjust the language to hide the divisive ideology. 

But AIM isn’t letting them avoid accountability. 

Visit SaveASU.com where you can easily send one message that goes directly to the Board of Trustees. Tell them that taxpayers shouldn’t be subsidizing woke DEI indoctrination for the future educators of the country.

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Together with many other institutions across the country, the University of North Carolina system repealed its DEI policies in 2024, with the goal of eliminating DEI offices, titles, and branded language across all its public universities.

However, Accuracy in Media has uncovered institutions in states like Ohio, Kentucky, and Texas subverting DEI bans, while lying to parents, lawmakers, and the public. We sent an undercover journalist to UNC Asheville to discover if this deceit was occurring inside North Carolina as well. 

Our journalist met with Mark Harvey, chair and professor of Psychology, to discuss how university policy had been affected by the ban on DEI.

Harvey noted that the university had closed its small Multicultural Affairs Office and relocated its two staff members to other positions. However, he mocked the new requirement to offer a mandatory Foundations of American Democracy (FAD) course, describing its focus on American founding documents like The Federalist Papers and the Constitution as “weird” and “conservative.” 

When discussing how DEI had been affected by the ban, Harvey stated that: “It’s still here, like the ‘E’ is gone, but the ‘D’ and the ‘I’ are still here.”

He continued: “The reality is, because of the widespread racism, a lot of people who are needing psychological services, social work, are minorities and so they have to…  Part of their training has to be to understand all those dynamics.”

However, he noted that administrators had “changed the name” of DEI-related psychology courses, adopting titles such as “Psychopathology and Clinical Science” in an attempt to remain under the radar.

It’s clear that North Carolina needs to strengthen its DEI ban further and prohibit the promotion of identity politics on its campuses. While discussing politics and other controversial issues is a constitutional right, forcing students to ascribe to far-left ideological viewpoints in order to receive an education is not.

To take action and hold these institutions responsible, visit SaveNCSchools.com to send one message that goes to all the relevant elected officials.

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Despite a state and federal ban on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs in higher education, an administrator at Northern Kentucky University suggests the ideology remains embedded in both coursework and structure, shielded by accreditation requirements.

Accuracy in Media sent an undercover investigator to Northern Kentucky University to find out if  the school is complying with House Bill 4, restricting DEI-related initiatives. The investigator met with Dr. Caroline Macke, Director of the School of Social Work, who spoke candidly about how the university has adapted.

Macke framed DEI not as a discretionary component of education, but as foundational to the discipline itself.

“One of the beautiful things about social work is that we focus on all of those things… it’s central to everything that we do. And the beauty of it is, despite whatever is going on in the outside world and the larger kind of political climate, we continue to focus on that.”

While NKU has formally eliminated certain identity-based offices in response to the law, Macke acknowledged that the underlying functions—and personnel—remain intact under new branding.

“Those no longer exist because of House Bill 4. So what NKU has done… is the people who ran those centers, none of them have been let go. They restructured in a way that we’re following the law. So we’re still able to serve our students in the same way that we were.”

She pointed to the creation of the “Norse Center for Belonging” as an example of this transition.

“They were telling the university community, ‘hey we still exist, it’s under a different name. We’re still here.’”

Macke also made clear that, in her view, the political shift against DEI is misguided.

“Terms like Social Justice, Inclusion, Diversity have all been flagged… I don’t even know how that’s possible. It’s ludicrous.”

Perhaps most notably, Macke stated that accreditation standards provide a form of insulation from state and federal policy changes. According to her, the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) mandates DEI-related instruction as part of its required competencies.

“Our accrediting body… requires us to teach nine competencies and one of those focuses exclusively on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It’s literally a core part of our curriculum… it offers our program a lot of protection.”

She added that this requirement effectively limits the university’s obligation or ability to alter coursework in response to new laws.

“Because what’s going on at the state level or at the federal level can’t influence our curriculum… we have not made any changes nor do we plan to because it’s central to what we do.”

While Kentucky’s law has prompted structural changes on paper, the principles and programming associated with DEI persist through rebranding and accreditation frameworks and radical administrators.

Take action now by visiting DEIinKentucky.com to send one message directly to relevant elected officials and demand accountability. No taxpayer should be forced to fund programs that operate in defiance of state law.

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This video, produced by Accuracy in Media, features undercover footage of a recruiter for UT-Arlington’s social work school discussing the institution’s approach to state-level restrictions on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Melissa Cruz explains that while the university has had to remove certain terminology and abide by new bans, the core intent, research, and curriculum of their social work program remains unchanged.

According to Cruz, faculty members are well-versed in how to navigate these legislative changes. Instead of using “banned” terminology that could trigger administrative scrutiny, they have rebranded specific concepts; for instance, continuing education units previously labeled as “cultural competency” are now classified as “human service” hours.

She emphasized that professors still cover topics related to DEI, such as race and gender, by adjusting their language to avoid prohibited words. Cruz further described the faculty’s mission as one of “pushing back” and causing “good trouble” to maintain the program’s original focus despite political pressure.

Cruz also noted that the program continues to adhere to national accreditation standards set by bodies like the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), which may conflict with state-level mandates.

Accreditation under the CSWE was the subject of another video released by the same group last week showing continued DEI at the University of North Texas. The Steve Hicks School of Social Work at UT-Austin also requires so-called “antiracism” training as part of its accreditation with this organization.

Senate Bill 17, a 2023 state law that banned DEI in university human resources policies, contains specific exemptions for accreditation and “academic course instruction.”

Social work education has a long history as a repository for woke content, both nationally and in the Lone Star State.

In 2025, Baylor University’s Garland School of Social Work returned a grant to promote LGBT ideology within churches following public backlash.

UNT social work professors have spoken at trans-affirming conferences and require adherence to woke ideology.

“The statements reflected in the video do not represent university policy or practice,” a UT-Arlington spokesperson told Texas Scorecard in a statement. “As a result, the employee referenced in the video is no longer employed by the university.”

Read the rest of the Texas Scorecard’s article here.

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Texas has banned Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in public universities, but newly obtained undercover footage suggests the underlying content may still be taught—just under different names.

Posing as a prospective student, an Accuracy in Media investigator met with Melissa Cruz, an Academic Recruiter in Social Work at the University of Texas at Arlington, to ask how the school is handling the changes.

Cruz made clear that while certain DEI-related terms are no longer used, the material itself has not gone away.

“There’s like a hundred words that are banned now… DEI stuff,” Cruz said. “The professors already know what’s going on… they still talk about what they need to talk about.”

She explained that faculty have adjusted their language to stay within the law while continuing to cover the same topics.

“They still hit on topics that would be around DEI—they just don’t use those words that would get them in trouble.”

Cruz also acknowledged that coursework tied to DEI has been renamed rather than removed.

“We still have to cover the content…it’s a huge part of what we do,” she said. “Before they were called ‘cultural competency hours,’ now they are just called ‘human service hours.’”

“The intention is still the same. The research is still the same. The practice is still the same—it’s just called something different now.”

When asked directly whether subjects like race and gender are still part of the curriculum, Cruz responded, “Yes.”

She pointed to accreditation requirements as one reason the material remains in place, referencing the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), which sets national standards for social work programs.

“We still have to abide by… governing bodies,” Cruz said. “They follow national legislation… and that passes down to us. At the state level, that is totally different.”

“Rest assured, the work that we do is still the same—it’s just classified differently.”

Cruz also described the role of social work programs in advancing what she characterized as social justice goals.

“Our job is to push back and to cause good trouble,” she said, noting that many of those themes are already built into required coursework.

Accuracy in Media contends that social work programs should not require coursework rooted in divisive, ideological frameworks, and rejects the claim that DEI is necessary for accreditation. Instead it points to Florida, which enacted restrictions on DEI in higher education, as evidence that universities can operate without embedding identity-based concepts into their required curricula.

Visit DEIinTexas.com to send a message to university trustees and the state Attorney General. No taxpayer should be forced to fund illegal DEI in the state of Texas.

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