Kansas City’s education establishment faced a rough week.

First, UMKC suspended an administrator after he appeared in an Accuracy in Media video exposing the university’s continued DEI push through deceptive rebranding.

Then, the Department of Justice sued Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools, alleging the district helped students transition without their parents’ knowledge.

While already in town, AIM President Adam Guillette visited the district office and pressed its executive director of community relations and government affairs for answers.

The director insisted the district is “here for the students and families.”

The district’s alleged conduct suggests otherwise.

Kansas must enact school choice. It’s time to fund students, not systems.

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James Petruzzi ’29 | Campus Correspondent
September 2, 2026, 11:00 am ET

The University of Alabama (UA) closed its Intercultural Center over the summer and replaced the space with the “REAL Tide Engagement Commons.”

Students were not directly notified of the closure. The center’s phone number was disconnected and its website was removed.

University spokesperson Alex House told The Crimson White that employees who worked at the center “transitioned to other available positions or chose to leave UA voluntarily.”

The center first opened in 2016 as the Intercultural Diversity Center and moved into the Student Center in 2020. The university renamed it the Intercultural Center in 2024 after closing its Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

That restructuring followed Alabama Senate Bill 129, which restricts Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and the promotion of certain “divisive concepts” at public universities.

UA has made other changes since the law took effect. The university renamed its Women and Gender Resource Center the Camellia Center and removed references to gender from its mission.

The Crimson White also reported that the university closed the Frances S. Summersell Library and removed its webpage.

The closure comes after Accuracy in Media released an undercover recording in June featuring Shemaiah Kenon, then an assistant director of the Intercultural Center.

“When I read the draft of the bill, people were calling me like, ‘This is blasphemy.’ I said it’s actually stupid because I found some holes,” Kenon said in the recording.

Kenon also said that “most of our faculty and staff are progressive.”

You can read the rest of Campus Reform’s article here.

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Abigail Klinkerman | Updated: 6:58 PM CDT Sep 1, 2026

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —A staff member at the University of Missouri Kansas City was suspended last week after a video posted online appeared to show her indicating that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs still existed on campus.

In the video, Dr. Kim Johnson was having a conversation with a member from Accuracy in Media.

The group is a non-partisan watchdog organization whose goal is to hold people in power accountable.

Recently, the organization has executed several undercover operations on college and university campuses across the nation in an attempt to expose the existence of DEI-related initiatives and programming.

“We began investigating, and what we found is that even in states where it was explicitly prohibiting divisive diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and curriculum, the work still continues, ” said Adam Guillette, President of Accuracy in Media.

After the video was posted, UMKC responded, saying that Johnson was immediately suspended and that their campus has not housed any DEI-related programming since 2024.

Johnson is the Senior Program Manager of Student Support Services at the University of Missouri Kansas City.

You can read the rest of KMBC’s article here.

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By Rachel del Guidice | Published September 1, 2026 4:28pm EDT

An official at Southern Methodist University was captured on undercover video describing what she called “a lot of maneuvering” surrounding the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, according to footage released by Accuracy in Media that purports to show how DEI initiatives continued under different names.

The video, shared Monday by school choice activist Corey DeAngelis, alleges SMU renamed its Office of Diversity and Inclusion the Office of Cultural Intelligence as part of an effort to keep DEI programming less visible.

The SMU staff member, who is identified in the video by Accuracy in Media as Danielle Palomo, coordinator for community engagement, social change and intercultural engagement division of student affairs, said, “As you can probably imagine, we’ve had to do a lot of maneuvering in order to remain kinda hidden under a lot of things. But as long as we can keep doing what we’re doing even to a smaller capacity, that is what we’re going to do. We’re going to do our best.”

In the video, an undercover journalist asks Palomo, “I was hoping to see if y’all had any existing, like, equity trainings that maybe y’all provide for staff faculty and that would give us an idea of what to go off of.”

Palomo responded, “So, all of that is held through our Office of Cultural Intelligence. As you can probably imagine, we’ve had to do a lot of maneuvering in order to remain kind of hidden under a lot of things. But my office in particular, we do — we have had trainings like that in the past with students.

“It’s not going to be as severe, hopefully, as some of the other public universities have had to deal with, but I know that the university is definitely finding its like ‘P’s and Q’s’ and it’s slowly like working to like rename things and maybe do away with things,” Palomo said in the video.

While SMU is a private university, it holds 164 active federal grants totaling nearly $30 million from agencies, including the departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Education, according to a May 2025 report by its independent student newspaper, The Daily Campus.

The outlet also reported that SMU’s research and development spending has more than tripled since 2010, rising from $18.7 million that year to nearly $59.8 million in fiscal year 2023.

The Trump administration has moved to restrict DEI initiatives at federally funded schools through executive actions and Department of Education directives, though federal judges have blocked portions of those efforts amid constitutional and procedural challenges.

Read the rest of Fox News’ article here.

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An undercover investigation by Accuracy in Media has exposed what an official at Southern Methodist University in Dallas described as an effort to “maneuver” DEI-related work, rename offices, and continue programs under a different banner.

Danielle Palomo, Coordinator for Community Engagement, Social Change, and Intercultural Engagement at SMU, spoke candidly to an undercover Accuracy in Media journalist about the university’s DEI efforts.

Her description was remarkably straightforward.

“As you can probably imagine, we’ve had to do a lot of maneuvering in order to remain kind of hidden under a lot of things,” Palomo said. “But as long as we can keep doing what we’re doing even to a smaller capacity, that is what we’re gonna do. We’re going to do our best.”

According to Palomo, DEI-related training is now housed through SMU’s Office of Cultural Intelligence. She also acknowledged that her own office has conducted similar training for students in the past.

Palomo explained what happened to SMU’s former Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

“It was the Office of Diversity and Inclusion which is now the Office of Cultural Intelligence,” Palomo said. “And their training, we helped facilitate that training. We helped train the training. So that office still exists just under a different name.”

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion became the Office of Cultural Intelligence and, according to Palomo, “that office still exists just under a different name.”

When the AIM investigator asked whether an employee whose title now referenced “Cultural Intelligence” had previously been the university’s DEI officer, Palomo answered simply:

“Yes.”

Palomo also described a university carefully navigating the changing political environment surrounding DEI.

“The university is definitely minding its P’s and Q’s and it’s slowly, like, working to, like rename things and maybe do away with things,” she said.

Palomo added that she was “a fan of renaming things.” 

These statements raise a simple question for SMU leadership and trustees:

If the university has truly moved away from DEI, why does an employee describe the former Office of Diversity and Inclusion as still existing under another name, and why was there a need to keep this work “hidden” in the first place?

Changing the label doesn’t answer that question.

Visit SaveSMU.com to send a message directly to the trustees of Southern Methodist University and demand answers about the university’s DEI programs.

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Posted on August 31, 2026
By Micaiah Bilger – Assistant Editor

The University of Missouri Kansas City suspended an employee last week after the individual was caught in an undercover video saying the school continues to practice diversity, equity, and inclusion under a different name.

Accuracy in Media, a conservative investigative group, published the undercover video Tuesday, featuring two of the university’s Kansas City campus employees: Kimberly Johnson, senior program manager of student support services, and Celeste Michael, a graduate assistant in the LGBTQ Rainbow Lounge in the Office of Student Involvement.

Late Thursday, the university stated that it had suspended one of the employees in the video. It did not name which one.

However, Johnson’s LinkedIn profile was taken down sometime over the weekend, according to Corey DeAngelis, a senior advisor with Accuracy in Media.

Additionally, the campus African American Student Union identified Johnson as the individual facing consequences.

A university spokesperson declined to name the individual or comment Friday when contacted by The College Fix.

The spokesperson pointed to the university’s statement on X. “Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This employee has been suspended immediately,” the university stated late Thursday on X in response to DeAngelis.

“As of 2024, UMKC no longer has DEI offices or DEI initiatives. We are and will continue to be in full compliance with federal and state laws and directives,” the university stated.Neither Michael nor Johnson responded to The Fix when contacted by email.

Read the rest of The College Fix’s article here.

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By Kacen Bayless | Updated August 28, 2026 5:36 PM

The University of Missouri-Kansas City suspended an employee this week after a conservative media group published an undercover video featuring two employees talking about diversity efforts.

The university announced the suspension on social media Thursday in response to a post from Corey DeAngelis, a national school choice activist. The university’s statement did not identify the name of the suspended employee or give a reason for their suspension.

“Thank you for bringing this to our attention,” UMKC wrote on its official X page. “This employee has been suspended immediately.”

The video came from Accuracy in Media, a conservative organization that has used hidden cameras to film individuals talking about diversity at colleges across the country. The group published an article Tuesday featuring secretly-recorded conversations with two employees at UMKC.

The university’s decision has sparked a backlash from some students and civil rights leaders, who say the move signals another step backward in the ongoing fight over diversity.

“This was an undercover attack,” said Gwen Grant, the president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City. “And then the college’s reaction is to suspend the employee? That just gives them more ground to continue to do these types of things.”

The controversy comes amid a broader crackdown on diversity efforts in Missouri and across the country. While rarely defined by critics, conservative opponents have attacked diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives in government agencies, colleges and corporations.

DEI and other diversity efforts are typically organizational programs that seek to promote fair treatment among all individuals, particularly among historically underrepresented groups. But conservatives, including President Donald Trump, claim they treat white people unfairly.

In the spliced-together video, one employee talks about how the university did not have a central diversity office, but added that “it’s not like it’s not being done.” Another employee spoke in the video about the university’s efforts to support LGBTQ students.

“As we frequently see, the law means nothing to the radicals who run our universities,” a narrator says in the video over ominous music.

Universities in Kansas, Missouri and across the nation have clamped down on diversity efforts as the Trump administration takes aim at similar programs nationally.

Read the rest of Kansas City Star’s article here.

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Brendan McDonald ’27 | August 26, 2026, 5:16 am ET

Social work students at the University of Alabama must complete a course called “Anti-Oppression and Social Justice” to graduate.

The School of Social Work’s Bachelor of Social Work requirements require students to complete either “Anti-Oppression and Social Justice” or the honors version of the course.

The course “is designed to introduce the student to social, economic, and political systems of power that serve to oppress communities that have been minoritized,” according to its description.

It also “examines issues related to the lived experiences of people based on age, culture, race, ethnicity, gender/gender identity/gender expression, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status/class, ability, religion/spirituality, and national origin.”

The ideological coursework extends to the graduate program. Students pursuing a Master of Social Work are required to take “Diversity, Oppression, & Anti-Racism,” while the School of Social Work says its undergraduate program uses a “social justice education framework.”

The school’s Strategic Plan Dashboard for 2026 lists an objective to “[s]tructure and support all academic programs to attract and retain quality students and produce graduates who are committed to advancing social justice and providing quality, strengths-based, evidence-based services.”

Accuracy in Media (AIM), a DEI watchdog, has conducted undercover investigations into social work programs at Ohio State University and Bowling Green State University, showing DEI material remained in social-work curricula despite Ohio’s anti-DEI law.

AIM President Adam Guillette criticized the mandated courses at UA’s School of Social Work in comments to Campus Reform.

“This isn’t education; it’s activism,” Guillette argued. “It is appropriate as a training course at the Democratic Socialists of America but has no place in higher education. Socialism should be taught at universities, but in a history course so that students can learn about the 100+ million killed by Marxist-Leninist regimes in the 20th century.”

“Our team doesn’t generally see courses like this advertised so openly,” Guillette continued.

Read the rest of Campus Reform’s article here.

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Ari Hoffman | Aug 26, 2026

Seattle Public Schools has confirmed that controversial Chief Sealth International High School teacher Ian Golash officially resigned from the district after appealing its effort to terminate his employment.

The confirmation came after Golash’s name unexpectedly reappeared on Chief Sealth’s website, where he was once again listed as a teacher and head of the school’s social studies department, raising questions about whether he had been reinstated.

Seattle Public Schools told The Ari Hoffman Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI that Golash is no longer employed by the district. “The parties have reached a resolution that allows Seattle Public Schools and Ian Golash to move forward. Mr. Golash has resigned effective March 2, 2026. The District remains committed to providing a safe, supportive, and academically strong learning environment for every student.”

When asked why Golash had been added back to Chief Sealth’s website despite resigning months earlier, the district said it would be “addressing any website preparations for the new school year directly with our teams.”

The district did not disclose the terms of its resolution with Golash or explain why his resignation, which took effect in March, had not previously been announced.

In July 2025, Seattle Public Schools told The Ari Hoffman Show that it had “initiated the process to terminate” Golash. The self-identified communist appealed the decision and remained on administrative leave while the process continued.

Golash was placed on leave in April 2024 after he took students out of class to confront a mobile billboard from Accuracy in Media that highlighted allegations of antisemitism and political indoctrination in his classroom.

Continue reading The Post Millennial’s article here.

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