The Gazette spotlights AIM video amid Iowa State DEI stings
August 12, 2025
With two University of Iowa employees on leave and under state and UI investigation after discussing in undercover videos campus efforts to skirt new DEI regulations, a third video has emerged — this time of an Iowa State University employee admitting to “finding loopholes in the laws.”
“I am careful about saying that,” Susan Harper, former director of Iowa State’s Center for LGBTQIA+ Student Success, told an “investigator” for “Accuracy in Media,” according to the conservative news media watchdog.
In the video, apparently taken without Harper’s knowledge — spliced with menacing music and captions like “What comes isn’t regret. It’s strategy. Defiance. A battle plan.” — Harper said, “We’re just gonna do what we’re gonna do.”
“We are finding ways to be in compliance with the law and still do the work that needs to be done,” she said in the video, which continues the trend of undercover reporting aimed at exposing efforts to skirt new laws banning diversity, equity, and inclusion-related spending, staffing, training, and other programming on campus.
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