“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.
Price is just the latest administrator who AIM has exposed plotting ways to evade the DEI ban. AIM also outed administrators at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the University of North Carolina at Asheville 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 SaveNCSchools.com to send the Board of Governors a message and let them know that DEI is pervasive throughout the UNC system.
