Overview
- Accuracy in Media published undercover clips on November 12 showing North Carolina A&T intercultural office staff describing how they continued DEI-like activities by changing terminology and labels.
- The recordings were made in August and September 2024, months after the UNC System Board of Governors repealed explicit DEI policies and emphasized nondiscrimination and institutional neutrality.
- Assistant Director Pascha Miller is heard saying the office operated outside the formal DEI unit and kept programs going by “changed the wording of things,” while avoiding the DEI label.
- Office manager Michael Eccles said staff substituted terms such as “diversity” with “competency,” characterizing the renaming as done “cleverly,” and Austin Horne described the new rules as vague.
- Fox News Digital reported the release, said it sought university comment, and quoted Accuracy in Media’s president urging sanctions and stricter legislation modeled on a Kansas-style DEI ban.