The more than three-minute video, which has not been previously reported, featured Brown boasting of DEI efforts under his new tenure, including “implicit bias training” for faculty, foreshadowing plans for “combating systemic racism,” praising a DEI task force as a “top priority,” and promoting college-backed DEI initiatives.

Under Brown’s leadership over the next two months, the school launched a diversity career-readiness program and celebrated Trans Day of Visibility. The latter, the institution said, was evidence of its commitment to expanding access to the legal profession for “historically underrepresented groups and those who have suffered discrimination.”

Brown’s remarks and the school’s positions under his short tenure stand in stark contrast to his anti-DEI rhetoric as a Senate candidate and the GOP’s anti-DEI platform.

In a statement to the Washington Examiner, Brown complimented President Donald Trump for reversing former President Joe Biden’s DEI policies in the federal government and said a contributing factor to leaving New England Law was to address political issues more freely. Brown left his role at the school in 2021 after roughly eight months, stating at the time that he planned to reengage in Republican politics.

“President Trump is right to roll back the DEI policies in our military, workplaces and schools that ran amok during the Biden years,” Brown said. “In the last six months, our military enrollment is up, the mission is the most important thing for our soldiers and our workplaces and schools are focusing on merit rather than DEI policies. One of the reasons I left the school and returned to the political arena was to be able to address these issues in a public and direct manner.”

Brown, a former GOP Massachusetts senator, is running for a second time in the Granite State after losing by roughly 3 points in 2014 to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). The highest-profile Republican in the race, Brown is likely to face Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) next year to replace Shaheen, who’s retiring.

“I look forward to contrasting my views on this issue with an opponent like Congressman Pappas, who voted to allow men in women’s sports, something that the overwhelming majority of Granite Staters vehemently oppose,” Brown added in his statement.

The Pappas campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

Democrats are favored slightly by nonpartisan election forecasters to keep the seat. But Republicans are eyeing the competitive race as a pickup opportunity to expand their three-seat majority or offset potential losses elsewhere in battlegrounds such as North Carolina and Maine.

Since his campaign launch last month, Brown has repeatedly assailed DEI and the “woke policies” associated with it in media appearances and when speaking to supporters.

Brown, discussing Second Amendment rights at a fundraiser cookout earlier this month, was heard telling attendees in audio obtained by the Washington Examiner that he was concerned under the Biden administration about “wokeness and the DEI,” among other things, to the point that he stockpiled guns, ammunition, and food.

“I take [gun rights] very, very seriously,” Brown said. “Especially after what we saw with what Joe Biden and his team do, take away our ability to practice our faith, you know, what they were doing with the wokeness and the DEI and all those other things they were ramming down our throats. There were some very serious concerns to the point where I purchased more guns, and ammunition, and food, quite honestly. I was a little nervous about what was going on.”

In the law school video he filmed, Brown struck a remarkably different tone. New England Law did not respond to a request for comment about why the video was hidden from its public feed.

“Today, one of our core values is expanding access to the legal profession and promoting diversity in our law school, with a particular focus on qualified members of groups that have suffered discrimination,” he said in the footage.

At another point, Brown said: “In my first month — actually the first week at New England Law — we held implicit bias training for all staff and faculty, launched a speaker series to feature alumni from diverse backgrounds, and worked diligently to determine appropriate next steps to continue combating systemic racism in our school and our community.”

He referenced a diversity and inclusion task force, launched before he came to the college, that he said was to “address the justified reactions” to the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. In contrast, Republicans have criticized racial justice protests sparked by their deaths, some of which turned violent.

“The work of this task force remains a top priority and will be an ongoing effort,” Brown said.

He also stated the college was committed to diversity initiatives such as its Charles Hamilton Houston Enrichment program, founded in 1990, which he said “addresses racial bias, promotes ethnic and cultural law school diversity, and provides a supportive community for students of color.”

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Brown joined New England Law in Boston as dean and president in January 2021 and resigned eight months later. He stated at the time in his resignation letter, according to the Boston Globe, he would be “re-engaging in the political arena in support of candidates and causes who share my vision of re-building the Republican Party and moving our country beyond the partisan gridlock — goals that were incompatible with my role as the leader of a non-partisan academic institution.”

Brown, a former U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa in Trump’s first term, is the latest Republican Senate hopeful whose past promotion of DEI has resurfaced as an awkward flashpoint in culture war politics. The Washington Examiner previously reported on deleted DEI posts made by Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Nate Morris when he was CEO of a company.