Regents Order U. Iowa to Discipline Employee Who Bragged About Getting Around DEI Ban
“We’re essentially finding ways to operate around it. So that was our solution”
This is from last week, but we missed it. See the video of the employee below.
The Gazette reports:
Regents order University of Iowa to discipline employee discussing DEI on undercover video aired on Fox News
A conservative private law firm hired to investigate two University of Iowa employees captured on undercover video discussing the campus’ compliance with state diversity, equity and inclusion laws is recommending the UI “initiate disciplinary proceedings” against just one of the employees.
Following a closed-door discussion Thursday at the Board of Regents meeting in Iowa City, board President Robert Cramer made a motion, which passed unanimously:
“In the matter of the investigation of ‘Employee A’ accept the findings and recommendation of Consovoy McCarthy and dismiss the complaint,” Cramer said. “In the matter of investigation of ‘Employee B,’ accept the findings and recommendations of Consovoy McCarthy and direct the University of Iowa to initiate disciplinary proceedings.”
Cramer did not disclose which employees were designated A and B, or detail what the “disciplinary proceedings” would entail.
UI Leadership and Student Organization Development Assistant Director Andrea Tinoco and Iowa Memorial Union Senior Associate Director Cory Lockwood were placed on paid administrative leave last July after undercover videos emerged of them discussing the university’s compliance with new state DEI laws — which prohibit Iowa’s public universities from having a DEI office, spending or staffing DEI positions, conducting DEI training or considering DEI in any admissions or hiring decisions.
“We’re essentially finding ways to operate around it. So that was our solution,” Tinoco told an unknown person, who then shared the undercover video of the encounter with Fox News — which went on to air it July 29, 2025, prompting an immediate public statement from Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds condemning the remarks.
“So it still exists,” Tinoco said in the video. “DEI and student organizations and all of that. Like it is real. It still exists. We are still doing DEI work.”
CAUGHT ON CAMERA: An official at the University of Iowa was recorded in an undercover video bragging about how she and others at the school have been taking steps to "operate around" state and federal DEI bans, saying, "I am proud of the fight." pic.twitter.com/mT4yDbjTzc
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Okay, I’ll ask it: Were the regents upset that the university was knowingly evading state law, or that the employee let the cat out of the bag?
ahahahah
“discipline”
instead go through the chain of command that is in fact deceiving the sheep ,,again,,
all they did was expose the non stop assault on wht america
Been going on for years now. They will never change, never stop with their racism and class warfare because it is their RELIGION. The people who brought us Separation of Church and State now use the Government to enforce allegiance to their Gospel.
Their efforts were rewarded with paid vaca. That’ll lear them.