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November 13, 2025
Administrators at a North Carolina university were caught on undercover video acknowledging that they continue diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts under new names—despite state and federal measures aimed at rolling back such programs.
According to Fox News, the recordings, obtained by Accuracy in Media, show staff at North Carolina A&T State University describing how they have adapted their DEI initiatives by changing terminology rather than halting operations.
The videos were taken in August and September 2024, several months after the University of North Carolina System’s Board of Governors voted to prohibit official DEI programs and shift toward what it called “institutional neutrality.”
“It shook things up around here, but fortunately for us, this office is not actually under the DEI office at all, so we’re able to just keep going,” said Pascha Miller, assistant director in the university’s Office of Intercultural Engagement. “We just like switched up our, you know, changed the wording of things.”
Michael Eccles, office manager for the same department, said staff had altered terminology to comply with the new policies. “The word ‘diversity,’ we had to change saying ‘diversity’ to competency,” Eccles explained. When asked if that amounted to “creative naming,” he agreed, adding that it was done “cleverly.”
Another staffer, Austin Horne, assistant director of LGBTA programs and services, described the statewide restrictions as intentionally ambiguous.
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