Legal Insurrection: Hidden DEI Exposed by AIM in Kansas
March 15, 2026
“I’ve learned that the philosophy here is, like, while they are saying they are going to take [DEI] away — like, changing the name of things — they’re still doing it,” stated Thyer on the hidden recording.
“You can’t take it out. That’s not quality teaching.”
Later in the recording, Thyer recounts a conversation with a student who said they were being taught in a course that the current administration is “the worst presidency ever.”
“That is refreshing,” stated Thyer.
In August 2025, Kansas State faced criticism over the alleged rebranding of its closed DEI office. Although the office was renamed the “Office of Access and Opportunity,” it continued to use similar language and training materials on topics such as “microaggressions” and “intersectionality.”
The 2024 Kansas House Bill 2105, or “Removing DEI from Postsecondary Institutions,” requires each public university to “share publicly on such institution’s website all training materials used for students and faculty on matters of nondiscrimination, DEI, race, ethnicity, sex, or bias and such institution’s policies and guidance on such matters.” Recently, Senate Bill 125 aimed to totally strip funding from any public institutions in Kansas that maintain “mandates, policies, programs, preferences and activities relating to diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Similar undercover investigations exposing hidden DEI programming have been reported at several public institutions, including Arizona State University, the University of Utah, North Carolina A&T State University, the University of Kentucky, Ohio State University, and the University of Virginia.