So, Accuracy in Media sent an undercover investigator to the University of Louisville to find out whether the university is complying with state law.

Posing as a prospective student, our investigator met with Bobby Cortes, an Admissions Coordinator for the Kent School of Social Work and Family Science, who spoke openly about the political climate in Kentucky and the role DEI plays in social work education.

Cortes described Kentucky as “super conservative,” but claimed that Louisville and Lexington are different due to their higher levels of education and their larger populations. He then acknowledged that social work practices are rooted in ideological concepts often associated with DEI.

Cortes then stated that “it’s been very difficult with all this HB4 stuff here in Kentucky to keep my personal feelings away from my professional matter.” In other words, administrators openly admit that their personal politics potentially affect their professional responsibility to uphold state law.

Later, when the investigator expressed concern about attending a university where DEI may no longer be part of the program, Cortes stressed that the DEI elements of Kent School’s curriculum continue to be taught, protected by accrediting bodies.

“Something I tell students who are also concerned about these things is, with the School of Social Work, it’s written into our accreditation,” he said. “Courses on oppression, courses on diversity, antiracism practices and theories… Those are written into our curriculum. So those are protected under our accreditation.”

Cortes also admitted the university has adjusted its language to avoid scrutiny under the new law.

“The university has had to change their verbiage,” he said, referencing “keywords” that could raise “red flags.”

Cortes gave an example involving a university committee focused on race-based initiatives.

“So, we had an antiracism committee that now had to change their name to something different,” Cortes said. “Nothing has changed about it. But the verbiage, to not get those keywords, those red flags to kind of pop out.”

When the investigator asked if the same values were still being promoted, Cortes replied emphatically, “Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely.”

Accuracy in Media has raised concerns that while DEI content may not be explicitly banned from coursework under HB4, the effort to conceal DEI-related activities through strategic rewording suggests that the university may be attempting to bypass the intent of the law.

Accuracy in Media President Adam Guillette questioned why such committees and curriculum content are still being defended under the guise of accreditation, and whether professors and administrators are using the accreditation process as a loophole to continue their ideological activism.

Take action now by visiting DEIinKentucky.com, where you can send a message directly to the trustees of the University of Louisville.

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Rigorous new state and federal laws have supposedly eliminated Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) from Ohio’s public universities. But another undercover video from Accuracy in Media suggests that DEI is still alive and well on campus.

Nickie Boczko, a Success Advisor at the University of Ohio was recorded on hidden camera speaking with an Accuracy in Media investigator posing as a prospective student. In the footage, Boczko indicates that DEI remains embedded within the university’s academic structure, where leftist professors are actively resisting efforts by state lawmakers to remove it.

“I think we do have a lot of faculty that are really committed to staying on top of all of this, regardless of, you know, like, state legislation,” Boczko said.

When pressed to clarify what she meant, Boczko responded directly: “Diversity and Inclusion.”

She went on to suggest that faculty are actively navigating around the new legal constraints.

“Our faculty are using their instructional freedom to its maximum capability,” she said. “Of course we have to follow state law and state legislation. Nothing has currently changed.”

Boczko referenced recent legislative developments, noting a new state senate bill that would require civics education for students graduating in 2029 or later, including coursework focused on the Constitution.

However, she also acknowledged that academic programs are being restructured so as to preserve DEI-related content under different labels.

“Our courses were built around avoiding this to begin with because we are not brand new to being a Republican state,” Boczko said. “We always have to worry about how we say things.”

She added that the university’s African American Studies program is being reorganized: “Our African American Studies program is moving under social work or sociology… they’re going to be a combined department.”

Our investigations have repeatedly found administrators acknowledging that DEI-related programs are continuing, albeit under different names, often in sociology, criminology and psychology departments.

Our exposé of Boczko is the latest in a series of undercover investigations by Accuracy in Media that reveal universities’ wilful defiance of state-level efforts to eliminate DEI from higher education. We have repeatedly documented administrators and faculty at Ohio’s public universities intentionally skirting the law and rebranding prohibited programs so as to maintain DEI in the curriculum.

Take action now. Visit DEIinOhio.com to send one message directly to University of Ohio trustees and the Attorney General. No Ohio taxpayer should be forced to fund DEI in education — especially when it defies state law.

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In 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis signed off on legislation prohibiting public funds from being used for DEI initiatives.

In an undercover expose by a watchdog organization called “Accuracy in Media,” employees admitted to ignoring this legislation in an effort to continue meeting the state accreditation standards.

This is actually the second time UWF has been called out.

In the most recent case, “Accuracy in Media” went undercover and exposed multiple employee’s bragging about being “woke” and not in compliance with state bans on DEI education.

Jessica Morton works in the school of Social Work at UWF.

She was caught on camera by a person connected to Accuracy in Media who was posing as a potential student.

Read more of HotAir’s article here.

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At the University of Toledo, Accuracy in Media captured two administrators on undercover video describing how the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) curriculum remains embedded in university programming, despite state and federal bans prohibiting it.

The video footage features Meredith Rinna, an assistant lecturer in the university’s social work program, and Megan Petra, an assistant professor in the same department. Both are seen speaking with an Accuracy in Media investigator posing as a prospective student.

When asked directly whether DEI had been removed from the curriculum, Rinna responded unequivocally: “No, 100% absolutely not.”

The investigator followed up, asking, “So basically the name changed, but the mission is still there?”

“…the mission is still there, yeah,” Rinna confirmed.

According to Rinna, DEI remains in place due to accreditation requirements tied to the social work program.

“That’s part of our competencies. Competency three is ADEI—antiracism, diversity, equity, and inclusion—and it’s baked into our social work practice. Per accreditation, we can’t omit that,” she said.

Petra added that, for now, the core instructional approach has not fundamentally changed.

“So, can we promise that they won’t do something different that will be harder to adapt to in the future? No, we cannot promise that. As it stands right now, we have the freedom to teach as we have,” Petra said.

When the investigator pressed further—“So, it hasn’t changed?”—Petra responded, “No, no, it hasn’t changed. What has changed is just our ability to offer CEU [Continuing Education Units] or to offer extracurricular.”

Rinna also described shifts in names, noting that while titles have changed, the underlying mission remains the same.

“The Office of Multicultural Student Success was an umbrella office that served various communities of color and LGBTQ groups. Now it’s CASE [the Center for Advocacy and Student Experience],” she said.

She pointed to additional examples, including the Catharine S. Eberly Center for Student Experience.

“You know, like Eberly is still there. They’re not the Women’s Center anymore—it’s focused on everybody. It’s just called Eberly now. So they’re shifting their missions and changing so it’s still looking at inclusivity, but I don’t know if they’re even calling it inclusivity. It’s ‘belonging’. I think the new word now is ‘belonging’,” Rinna said.

If Toledo was complying with Ohio law, they wouldn’t need to change terms. Legal compliance never requires deception.

Take action now by visiting DEIinOhio.com to send a message directly to the university’s trustees and the attorney general. No Ohio taxpayer should be required to fund DEI initiatives in education.

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Both edited videos were released this month by Accuracy in Academia, a conservative watchdog group that has over the last year targeted numerous universities across Republican-controlled states with the same sting: catching employees admitting to undercover investigators that they are flouting anti-DEI laws.

At Washburn, located in Topeka, a video published March 18 centers on lecturer Craig Carter with the School of Applied Studies, who told an AIM investigator that employees were told to discontinue DEI but “to my knowledge, we didn’t do any of that here.”

“A lot of times we use other words for diversity,” he was recorded saying on AIM’s hidden camera, according to the group.

“We talk about inclusion, you know, and stuff like that. For the most part, we haven’t been… I mean, I haven’t changed anything that I say or do in the classroom,” Carter said.

Carter did not respond to emails from The College Fix seeking comment.

The other video, released March 4, centers on staffer Kandyce Horn in the president’s office.

“The office that was diversity, inclusion, and equity, it’s changed and it’s more, it’s the same principles, different name,” she told an undercover investigator, adding campus leaders now use the word “belonging” in place of DEI.

Asked whether DEI is active at Washburn, Horn said “absolutely.”

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

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Despite Florida’s strict Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion laws, professors in the University of West Florida’s social work program are still teaching the destructive ideology. 

Jessica Morton, a Field Placement Coordinator in the department, described their faculty as “super-woke” in a hidden-camera video. 

Morton and fellow Field Placement Coordinator Miranda Brown gushed to Accuracy in Media’s undercover investigative journalist about the program’s commitment to DEI–and the “loophole” they’re using to defy state law. 

According to them, their accreditation board requires DEI and their program couldn’t exist if it wasn’t accredited. They say this is a loophole that allows them to continue injecting the ideology into their program. 

“Not just to say that we don’t go by the rules, but unfortunately we’re not going to be able to be in complete compliance with all of the things that they’re saying because we are bound by our accreditation,” Morton told AIM’s investigator.

The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) has several standards that must be met for accreditation. According to a 2022 copy of these standards, programs must “Engage Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ADEI) in Practice.” This is considered one of nine “core competencies.”

Programs in states with DEI bans have increasingly started leaning on this CSWE standard as a loophole to continue teaching the woke ideology. 

Morton and Brown further divulged that everyone, from the educators at the University of West Florida, to the department chair, all the way to the dean, are “on our side.”

According to Brown, some professors may try to protect themselves as they defy the law by asking students not to record during their classes. 

“We’re crazy over here. We are not going down without a fight,” Morton reiterated. 

“It’s very bright and blue over here,” she added, seemingly implying that the program’s educators are Democrats. 

She also claimed the professors “do not care at all” about the law against DEI.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., signed Senate Bill (SB) 266 back in 2023, which expressly prohibits institutions from using public money to fund DEI initiatives. 

But at the University of West Florida, they believe their accreditation standards supersede the law. 

And it’s clear they think their defiance will fly under the radar–but AIM isn’t letting that happen. We’re going into schools undercover to find out who is still pushing illegal DEI. 

Go to DEIinFlorida.com to send one message that goes directly to all relevant officials. Demand action for schools like the University of West Florida, which are brazenly pushing destructive DEI despite state law.

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A lawsuit by a former professor at the school, alleging anti-white discrimination and tolerance for sexual harassment against whites in the name of diversity, equity and inclusion, could put a tight end to that era and subject the public research university to a cruel summer.

Brian Calfano alleges UCincy nearly drove him to suicide by investigating him for sexual harassment without an accusation and ousting him as journalism department head as retaliation for hiring a white person to advise the student newspaper and supporting her sexual harassment claim against a professor who wanted a racial minority for her job.

When Calfano “resigned to escape an institution determined to destroy him,” the university “released his unresolved Title IX file to a newspaper reporter” who had been a student of the alleged sexual harasser, the suit says. The resulting article painted “the unadjudicated allegations as fact” and got him fired from his new job as a TV news anchor.

“He has since found work, but his academic career is over, his broadcast journalism career is over, and his reputation has been irreparably harmed by allegations that were never tested, never adjudicated, and never resolved,” according to the suit, which pleads First Amendment and Title IX retaliation and “civil conspiracy to deprive constitutional rights.”

Calfano’s lawyer, Shams Hirji, told Just the News the university has “waived service and formally appeared in the case” but doesn’t have to file an answer or motion to dismiss until April 24. The university’s attorney in the case, Drew Corner Piersall, didn’t respond to a query.

The case may draw federal interest, considering UCincy is already the subject of a federal antidiscrimination complaint by Protect the Public’s Trust based on undercover video by Accuracy in Media.

The video, featuring an AIM investigator posing as a “prospective parent,” shows a sociology department administrator calling DEI “a core of our curriculum” and saying, “We can’t really strip it out,” in spite of Ohio’s statutory ban on DEI in curriculum.

Read the rest of the Just the News’ article here.

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Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), the coalition behind anti-Israel encampments on campus in 2024, posted the message in Farsi on Feb. 28. The post was later deleted, though the group indicated it removed the message to regain account access.

Screenshots circulated widely online, drawing national attention to the coalition and its activities.

In response, Accuracy in Media (AIM) launched a mobile billboard campaign near Columbia’s campus displaying the message alongside names of individuals identified as leaders within CUAD-affiliated organizations.

AIM President Adam Guillette stated that the campaign is intended to highlight individuals and organizations he described as promoting anti-American and violent rhetoric.

Guillette said the coalition included more than 90 student groups and argued that members have not publicly distanced themselves from CUAD’s messaging. He also pointed to past campus demonstrations, including building takeovers, as part of a broader pattern of activism tied to the coalition.

Columbia University has stated that CUAD is not a recognized student organization and that officially recognized groups are not permitted to affiliate with it.

Read the rest of Campus Reform’s article here.

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