Red State Dean Ousted After Admitting on Hidden Cam She Was Secretly Pushing DEI

Newly released undercover video shows a university administrator in North Carolina boasting about DEI efforts still taking place at the school despite state and federal efforts to roll back the policies, prompting the school to sever ties with that employee.

“I mean we probably still do anyway… but you gotta keep it quiet,” UNC Asheville Dean of Students Megan Pugh tells an undercover journalist in a video released by Accuracy In Media and exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, after being praised for continuing to do “equity work” at the school.

“Keep it on the down low?” the journalist responds, to which Pugh says, “Yeah.”

“But, I love breaking rules,” Pugh then says.

Pugh’s comments come a year after the University of North Carolina System Board of Governors voted to essentially ban DEI and focus on “institutional neutrality,” Carolina Journal reported.

The Accuracy in Media video captures Pugh saying “M’hm” when asked if “breaking rules” is “why y’all kind of spread it out and stuff?”

“Well, yes, and no,” Pugh clarifies. “Part of it is that, part of it is just because we don’t have a dedicated office for it anymore, it’s easier to maintain.”

Pugh continues, “Until more or less they get mad at us, but they haven’t done it yet.”

When asked if the school was “supportive” of the ways DEI is still being implemented, Pugh says, “M’hm” and answers in the affirmative.

The undercover investigator asks Pugh about “implicit bias training” and Pugh explains that they haven’t taught that since the “spring” because the school administrators have been specifically opposed to that in a way that “I don’t enjoy.”

Despite that, Pugh explains her openness and “intention” to implement that sort of training under a “broader banner.”

“Just maybe being creative,” the undercover investigator says.

“Yeah, exactly,” Pugh, whose profile on the school website uses the pronouns “she/her,” responds.

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