University of Toledo exposed for covering up DEI, pushing the ideology under a different name

The University of Toledo was exposed in an undercover video released on Wednesday for still pushing the diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology on campus, while avoiding federal punishment by changing names, titles, and phrases.

Senate Bill 1, the Advance Ohio Higher Education Act, which Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed in March 2025, bars public higher education institutions from maintaining DEI offices or programs that result in discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. It also requires intellectual diversity in classrooms, allowing students to form their own conclusions rather than being indoctrinated.

During a conversation with an undercover journalist working for Accuracy in Media, an organization that became famous for exposing America’s college and university officials’ left-wing ideology that they propagate at their workplaces, two university officials admitted that the DEI ideology is still alive on the campus. Specifically through its Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program.

“It’s baked right into our social work practice,” Assistant Lecturer in Social Work Program at the university, Meredith Rinna, said. “Per accreditation, we can’t omit that.”

Assistant Professor in the Social Work Program at the university, Megan Petra, also admitted that DEI is not missing from the school’s curriculum.

“No, 100% not,” she said, confirming that the curriculum didn’t change fundamentally. “What has changed is just our ability to offer CEU or to offer extracurricular activities.”

Rinna said that the university is “undergoing change,” adding that the only big “change” is changing names, titles, and the words and phrases that officials use to make the federal government believe the university is complying with the law.

“The Multicultural Student Success Center was an umbrella office” and a “spot for all sorts of various communities of color, LGBTQ,” and other “diverse” groups, according to Petra.

Rinna also brought up the Center for Advocacy and Student Experience, noting that even though CASE’s name has changed, “the mission is still there.”

Rinn also mentioned the Catharine S. Eberly Center for Student Experience, which, according to her, has been involved in DEI activism.

She said that the centers are “shifting their missions and changing” their names, titles, and the phrases they use to lie to government officials about what’s going on their campus.

“It’s ‘belonging,’” Rinn said, referring to the word that is now commonly used by the university officials, instead of the well-known “diversity,” “equity,” and “inclusion” words.

Accuracy in Media said in the video that if the university officials are “complying with the Ohio law, they shouldn’t need to change terms” that they use because “legal compliance never requires deception.”

“The radicals who run higher education at the University of Toledo aren’t committed to the success of their students,” Accuracy in Media President Adam Guillette told Ohio.News via email. “They’re not committed to following the law. The University of Toledo requires radical reform. It must bring in outside auditors to wipe out entire administrative teams and to refocus the university on academics rather than activism.”

The University of Toledo is not the first higher-education institution to be caught spreading left-wing ideology on its campus. Accuracy in Media previously uncovered that Kent State University and the University of Cincinnati were engaged in the same deceiving practices.

Accuracy in Media also revealed that the same problem plagued the secondary education system, including Reading High School, Princeton City Schools District, Three Rivers School District, Norwood City School District, Dayton Public Schools District, Eastwood Middle School, and Fremont City Schools District.