Campus Reform Highlights NC State Staffer Termination Following DEI Footage
February 18, 2026
North Carolina State University (NC State) has fired a staff member for claiming in an undercover video that the school continues to support Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
However, the group that filmed the video says the university should do more to eliminate DEI’s influence.
Adam Guillette, the president of Accuracy in Media (AIM), called for widespread changes across the university in comments to Campus Reform.
“The entire North Carolina university system requires drastic reform,” he stated. “Entire departments of administrators need to go if the UNC System is going to successfully refocus on education rather than activism.”
“In addition, North Carolina needs a DEI ban with both a reporting mechanism and legal consequences for those who break the law,” Guillette continued.
AIM released a video on Feb. 5 showing Jae Edwards, the former assistant director of NC State’s LGBTQ Pride Center, claiming that staff members are finding ways around the UNC System’s rules against DEI.
“As a marginalized group, we’re used to these things,” Edwards said in the video. “And we’re used to going around them and finding ways around.”
Edwards also said that staff members are encouraging student organizations to take on the burden of pushing DEI at the school because “none of this stuff affects them.”
“And so we’re really trying to support them in their events and their programming so they can also continue to thrive,” he added.
In response to the video, the university fired Edwards the same day.
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