The College Fix Covers AIM Videos Exposing Two Alabama Universities
September 12, 2025
Two Alabama universities were recently caught in controversies after administrators admitted in undercover videos that the campuses advance diversity, equity and inclusion efforts despite a law that bans DEI at public schools.
In one video, the University of West Alabama dean of students said the school has sought “loopholes” to get around the state’s DEI ban, approved in 2024.
“We are all still partnering to work together to offer programming and events for those certain things,” Byron Thetford said in the video. “We’re just being more mindful about how we go about it.”
In the other video, University of North Alabama campus official Alyson Bergner is seen saying the university still offers DEI programming, but it’s called other things, such as “multicultural” efforts.
“Nothing really changed,” Bergner said in the video.
Both videos were filmed by undercover journalists for the advocacy group Accuracy in Media pretending to be sympathetic to the DEI cause. The videos are heavily edited, and it’s not stated by the group when they were filmed, or to whom the administrators believed they were speaking to.
1819 News reported that Bergner is no longer employed by the University of North Alabama.
“The University of North Alabama is committed to complying fully with state and federal law,” a spokesperson told the news outlet. “The comments in the video do not reflect UNA’s policies, practices, or administrative guidance. The individual in the video is no longer employed at UNA.”
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