Two Alabama universities were recently caught in controversies after administrators admitted in undercover videos that the campuses advance diversity, equity and inclusion efforts despite a law that bans DEI at public schools.

In one video, the University of West Alabama dean of students said the school has sought “loopholes” to get around the state’s DEI ban, approved in 2024.

“We are all still partnering to work together to offer programming and events for those certain things,” Byron Thetford said in the video. “We’re just being more mindful about how we go about it.”

In the other video, University of North Alabama campus official Alyson Bergner is seen saying the university still offers DEI programming, but it’s called other things, such as “multicultural” efforts.

“Nothing really changed,” Bergner said in the video.

Both videos were filmed by undercover journalists for the advocacy group Accuracy in Media pretending to be sympathetic to the DEI cause. The videos are heavily edited, and it’s not stated by the group when they were filmed, or to whom the administrators believed they were speaking to.

1819 News reported that Bergner is no longer employed by the University of North Alabama.

“The University of North Alabama is committed to complying fully with state and federal law,” a spokesperson told the news outlet. “The comments in the video do not reflect UNA’s policies, practices, or administrative guidance. The individual in the video is no longer employed at UNA.”

UNA also closed the Mitchell-West Center for Social Inclusion, where Bergner worked.

“Michelle Eubanks, a spokesperson for the University of North Alabama, did not provide details to AL.com about when exactly the center closed, but did say in a statement that ‘The University of North Alabama is committed to complying fully with state and federal law,'” the Alabama news outlet reported.

As for the University of West Alabama video, its President Todd Fritch responded by saying the university is complying with the law.

“With the passing of the law, the Chief Diversity Officer position was eliminated, and we have worked carefully to align our policies and practices with all state and federal requirements,” Fritch stated to 1819 News. “Our responsibility as a regional public university is to serve students, faculty, staff, and the broader community with excellence, while being good stewards of the public resources entrusted to us. We remain committed to providing a welcoming, supportive environment for every member of our university family and to carrying out our mission in a way that reflects both the spirit and the letter of the law.”

Accuracy in Media has conducted similar undercover video sting operations in Iowa and North Carolina.

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