Officials at Utah Tech University thought they could quietly repackage their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda under new academic labels to evade state oversight—but Accuracy in Media isn’t letting it go under the radar.
“Its under academic. It’s not under services at all. It’s all academic,” Utah Tech’s Student Resource Center Director Drusilla Bottoms said on AIM’s hidden camera recently.
She described fancy strategic footwork being done by the school to keep up with DEI programs. “I think its, I don’t wanna call it wrong, but I think its the Institute of Race, Gender, Inequality, or something like that–but it’s all academic, so it has nothing to do with student services because they can function on the academic side without any restrictions because it’s under the education umbrella,” Bottoms explained to AIM’s investigator.
According to her, their main DEI vehicle was technically “dissolved,” but they really just “reorganized” it.
“We didn’t really get rid of anything,” she admitted on AIM’s hidden camera.
In fact, they just hired two new people to work in the reorganized structure, Bottoms detailed.
She also described one of the ways that Utah Tech gets around restrictions on DEI, pointing out that “DACA and undocumented doesn’t fall under a race so we still keep those services here.”
Despite being caught on camera divulging this information, Bottoms denied it when AIM President Adam Guillette paid a visit to her office.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” she claimed. “We don’t do DEI here.”
She then suggested AIM’s videos were “out of context” despite her clear admissions.
Bottoms ultimately called the police on Guillette, who left as soon as he was asked to.
Last year, Utah followed the lead of many other red states, signing into law a ban on DEI in public colleges and universities, K-12 schools, and state offices.
But clearly, this policy isn’t enough to stop agenda-driven school administrators from trying to force DEI programming into schools.
That’s why AIM is on the ground going undercover to expose efforts to defy state laws on DEI.
Go to SaveUtahSchools.com now to send one message that goes directly to the trustees of Utah Tech and tell them what you think of Drusilla Bottoms shameless willingness to undermine laws to support a divisive DEI ideology.
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This article originally appeared on Accuracy In Media. It is republished with permission.
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