Audacy’s documentary podcast Campus Files has returned with a second season exploring scandals and controversies across higher education.
New episodes are released weekly on Wednesdays, with each examining stories from universities and colleges in the United States and beyond.
The show is hosted by producers and journalists Margo Gray and Ian Mandt, who specialise in narrative documentary podcasts. Their previous work includes It Was Said, About a Boy, The Sunshine Place and Gangster Capitalism.
Each episode of Campus Files focuses on a single case, looking at how institutions that promote academic excellence can also become the focus of major controversies.
The podcast investigates the background behind each story and examines the impact on the people and organisations involved.
Episode one of the new season looks at a long running tradition at Yale University where new students were photographed naked as part of orientation. The practice continued for decades and was also used by several other universities before it eventually ended.
Other episodes in the series explore political tensions surrounding Texas A&M University, the Cold War espionage group known as the Cambridge Five, and the career of college football coach Lane Kiffin.
Further topics include the business of sorority consulting in the United States and the death of a Bucknell University football player. Another episode examines the arrival of the cryptocurrency themed DOGE movement at Brown University.
The show builds on earlier seasons that investigated scandals involving admissions practices, campus culture and governance within universities.
The latest season continues that approach with weekly investigations that focus on how controversies emerge within academic institutions and how they are handled by those involved.
Episode one is available now on all podcast platforms.
