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Subject Western Carolina administrator caught undermining DEI ban
Date June 11, 2025 10:00 PM
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“You can’t legislate it away. You can’t take away positions.”



That’s Karen Price, the Director of Institutional Assessment at Western
Carolina University. She gloated to an Accuracy in Media investigator about how
DEI is being embedded throughout the system – so it can’t be legislated away –
despite a Board of Governors’ ban.



Price told AIM’s hidden-camera investigator the school is “still absolutely
doing” all of the DEI work, but there is no central office, figurehead, or
Chief Diversity Officer, that might raise suspicions.



“Like honestly, it’s more we’re trying to embed that kind of Diversity,
Equity, Inclusiveness, Inclusive Excellence, really across, like, every area
should have responsibility for that,” she explained, even though there is a ban
on DEI.



She even said, “I don’t even mind pissing people off” when it comes to
continuing to do DEI work.



When Accuracy in Media showed up at Western Carolina University to ask the
school what they thought about DEI being embedded there, they didn’t have
anything to say.



You can watch the full video here.
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Price is just the latest administrator who AIM has exposed plotting ways to
evade the DEI ban. AIM also outed administrators at theUniversity of North
Carolina at Charlotte
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and theUniversity of North Carolina at Asheville
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for coming up with ways to bypass the ban. As a result of AIM’s
investigations, both of the administrators caught on camera were fired.


There is still more work to be done. People like Price are comfortable
bragging about how they are intentionally trying to bypass DEI bans. Go to
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message and let them know that DEI is pervasive throughout the UNC system.




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