'Love breaking the rules': Red state dean ousted after admitting on hidden cam she was secretly pushing DEI

FIRST ON FOX: Newly released undercover video shows a assemblage head successful North Carolina boasting astir DEI efforts inactive taking spot astatine the schoolhouse contempt authorities and national efforts to rotation backmost the policies, prompting the schoolhouse to sever ties with that employee. 

"I mean we astir apt inactive bash anyway… but you gotta support it quiet," UNC Asheville Dean of Students Megan Pugh tells an undercover writer successful a video released by Accuracy In Media and exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, aft being praised for continuing to bash "equity work" astatine the school.

"Keep it connected the down low?" the writer responds, to which Pugh says, "Yeah."

"But, I emotion breaking rules," Pugh past says.

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Undercover video shows a UNC head pushing DEI contempt authorities and national policy. (UNC Asheville/Accuracy successful Media)

Pugh’s comments travel a twelvemonth aft the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors voted to fundamentally prohibition DEI and absorption connected "institutional neutrality," Carolina Journal reported.

The Accuracy successful Media video captures Pugh saying "M’hm" erstwhile asked if "breaking rules" is "why y’all benignant of dispersed it retired and stuff?"

"Well, yes, and no," Pugh clarifies. "Part of it is that, portion of it is conscionable due to the fact that we don’t person a dedicated bureau for it anymore, it’s easier to maintain."

Pugh continues, "Until much oregon little they get huffy astatine us, but they haven’t done it yet."

When asked if the schoolhouse was "supportive" of the ways DEI is inactive being implemented, Pugh says, "M’hm" and answers successful the affirmative. 

The undercover researcher asks Pugh astir "implicit bias training" and Pugh explains that they haven’t taught that since the "spring" due to the fact that the schoolhouse administrators person been specifically opposed to that successful a mode that "I don’t enjoy."

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Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives person been the taxable of heated opinions of praise and rebuke. (Adobe Stock)

Despite that, Pugh explains her openness and "intention" to instrumentality that benignant of grooming nether a "broader banner."

"Just possibly being creative," the undercover researcher says. 

"Yeah, exactly," Pugh, whose illustration connected the schoolhouse website uses the pronouns "she/her," responds.

In effect to a Fox News Digital enquiry astir the video, a UNC Asheville spokesperson said the schoolhouse is "aware of a video successful which an worker makes comments implying that the University does not comply with UNC System policies oregon ineligible requirements and supports employees disregarding specified obligations."

"These remarks bash not correspond the practices of UNC Asheville. The University remains firmly committed to upholding each UNC System policies arsenic good arsenic national and authorities laws, some successful rule and successful practice."

The assemblage added that aft a "prompt reappraisal of the matter" the "individual is nary longer employed by the university." 

"The University volition undertake a broad reappraisal to reenforce expectations and guarantee each employees are aligned with applicable laws and policies."

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Rep. Virginia Foxx leaves the House Republican Conference gathering astatine the Capitol Hill Club. (Bill Clark)

GOP Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, who represents North Carolina's 5th Congressional District, expressed interest astir the video successful a connection to Fox News Digital. 

"The UNC System has made a bully religion effort to get escaped of DEI, but evidently the connection has not reached the ears of UNC Asheville’s administration," Foxx said. 

"Dean Pugh is simply a picture-perfect illustration of however entrenched this caustic ideology truly is wrong postsecondary education. It’s clip to cleanable location astatine the assemblage level and formed retired unit who judge they tin enactment with blatant impunity."

In summation to North Carolina making moves to rotation backmost DEI, which person seemingly been unsuccessful, the Trump administration has made efforts to rotation backmost DEI connected the national level and archer universities that judge national backing that they indispensable halt promoting the agenda.

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"It's abundantly wide that the Marxist principles associated with DEI are afloat embedded into this university," Accuracy successful Media President Adam Guillette told Fox News Digital. "Removing 1 worker is simply the archetypal measurement toward reform."

"Resolving the institutionalized radicalism astatine UNC-Asheville volition necessitate caller enactment astatine the assemblage level and bold betterment from the Board of Governors," helium continued.

Will Hild, enforcement manager of Consumers’ Research, told Fox News Digital earlier this twelvemonth that companies and organizations are moving hard to rebrand DEI policies by giving them caller names.

"It is the nonstop aforesaid toxic nonsense nether a caller wrapper, and they're conscionable hoping to widen the grift due to the fact that a batch of these people, I would accidental astir of the radical moving successful DEI, are useless," Hild said.