The College Fix Reports on AIM Investigation Showing DEI Remains at Western Kentucky University
April 21, 2026
State DEI bans are ‘horribly written’ and typically exclude curriculum, Accuracy in Media president says
A Western Kentucky University School of Social Work employee’s admission that its curriculum still includes diversity, equity, and inclusion programming despite a state ban has raised wider questions about the strength of the law itself as well as accreditation requirements.
“We see this in nearly every state that has banned DEI and in many instances, it’s not that they’re breaking the law, but rather that these laws were horribly written,” Accuracy in Media president and founder Adam Guillette told The College Fix in a recent phone interview.
The investigative group opposes taxpayer funding for DEI in education. It has released a series of undercover videos in Kentucky and other states exposing public university employees admitting that DEI is still part of their work despite efforts by state lawmakers to ban it.
The video of the Western Kentucky University staffer’s admission came out March 9. In the video, Bailey Cooke, an office associate for the social work school, told an undercover investigator that program prerequisites include a “DEI course.”