Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities
AudacyCollege holds a mythic place in American culture, hailed as the best four years of your life and revered as a beacon of integrity and excellence. But behind the polished campus tours and glossy brochures lies a far more complicated reality. Each episode of Campus Files uncovers a new story, exploring everything from rigged admissions to sports scandals, free speech, and hazing. Consider this your ... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 80 | Founded | 7 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | DocumentaryTrue CrimeSociety & Culture | |||
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Pick up any history of women in higher education and you'll find sororities in a footnote, maybe a paragraph. But that's not the whole story. The first sororities weren't social clubs - they were academic lifelines for women. So how did that get forg... more
In 2022, famous young entrepreneur and founder of the student financial aid startup Frank was charged with fraud and conspiracy, facing up to a 100 years in prison. How did this wunderkind turn into an alleged con-artist, and how did America's larges... more
Poe Hall, an academic building on NC State’s campus, shut its doors abruptly. It later emerged that the building was contaminated with PCBs, a known carcinogen, and had been for decades. Faculty, staff, and former students say they raised alarms afte... more
For the last decade at least, the question of free speech has been the defining issue of American higher education. One school set out to tackle those problems head on, but appears to have lost its way in the process, struggling to define itself even... more
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I have listened to a good chunk of these episodes, but they constantly found ways to put in their liberal narrative instead of factually reporting on certain topics. The creators clearly have a very skewed view of what conservatives are and especially their hateful narrative they pushed of Charlie Kirk. After that episode, I could not excuse their bias anymore. They are clearly have utter disdain for half of the country and never bothered to actually listen to what Charlie said, all they did was... more
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Investigative, issue-driven reporting that probes higher-education scandals, governance battles, and culture-war tensions on college campuses. Episodes thread together deep-dive profiles of fraud schemes, environmental contamination controversies, and pivotal campus politics—often featuring on-the-record interviews with students, faculty, journalists, and subject-matter experts. Noteworthy is the show's willingness to connect historical episodes with current debates, and to blend archival context with frontline reporting, creating a clear throughline about accountability, transparency, and the power dynamics inside universities.
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