Campus Reform Shares AIM Video Showing Utah Official Caught Admitting DEI Workarounds
October 31, 2025
A university staff member was recently exposed after admitting the school is trying to rebrand its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in the face of federal scrutiny.
Lucas Alvarez, an education coordinator at the University of Utah, unknowingly made the admission to an undercover reporter for Accuracy in Media.
“I mean, like, the programs that we’re doing, I think technically we’re still allowed to do them but they have to be marketed a certain way,” Alvarez said in the video.
Alvarez also justified the DEI programs and instruction under the guise of professors’ “academic freedom.” He declined to comment further when he was shown the footage and questioned by Adam Guillette, Accuracy in Media president.
LeiLoni McLaughlin, the school’s director of the Center for Community and Cultural Engagement (CCE), denied Alvarez’s claims.
“I think what he was referring to was the professors having academic freedom to do research and speak from their expertise in the field that they’ve studied,” she said.
She also claimed that with the legislative changes, “every university has had to shift.” When asked if the shift refers to the university programs or simply how they are marketed, she responded, “both.”
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