This final episode of Collegland takes us to North Carolina Central University, a Historically Black College and University, where we talk with three people who have been critical to developing the LGBTA Resource Center.

COVID has brought new attention to what many are calling the “mental health crisis" on college campuses. Gary Glass, licensed psychologist, and director of counseling and career services at Oxford College of Emory University talks with Lisa about the challenges facing students and the increasing pressure on faculty to address mental health concerns.

This week our hosts talk with long-time non-tenure-track faculty member Jennifer Hyland Wang about living the contradictions of precarious labor and balancing parenting, teaching, research, and her organizing work as co-chair of the Precarious Labor Organization within the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

This week we hear from leaders in Dakota Language revitalization connected to the University of Minnesota, Šišóka Dúta and his former student and now colleague Raine Cloud about their work revitalizing Dakota Language.

Nan and Lisa talk to critical criminologist Shirley Leyro about DACA, and the challenges facing immigration-impacted students without citizenship on university campuses around the country.

As campuses across the country have returned to in-person education requests by faculty for accommodations have been ignored or denied. So, we reached out to three members of the Accessible Campus Action Alliance (ACAA) about how our universities can do better.

Producer Richelle Wilson shares how being first-gen has shaped her college experience and why she believes in higher ed even though it’s got a lot of work to do.

Librarian Maura Seale explains how libraries are the “front porch” of every campus and reveals the invisible intellectual labor and care work performed by librarians.

From the horrifying to the heartwarming, UNC housekeeper Tracy Harter describes the day-to-day work of cleaning the dorms.

Michael Dockry, professor of forestry and member of Citizen Potawatomi Nation, shares principles from his work in sustainable land management and describes how universities can be transformed by Indigenous knowledge.

John Sherer from UNC Press gives us a behind-the-book look into the work of university presses, which publish high-quality scholarship for both academic and public readers.

Food insecurity is a growing problem on campuses across the country. Paula Umaña from the Hope Center talks about moving “beyond the food pantry” to connect students to needed resources.

Let’s give credit where credit is due: every COVID vaccine on the market got its start at a university lab. Dr. Deborah Fuller takes us behind the scenes.

Rebecca Barrett-Fox tells us why she advised professors to “do a bad job of putting your courses online” in a blog post that went viral as colleges quickly pivoted to remote learning last March.

Joe Biden won the U.S. presidential election, and we have students like Morehouse College’s Rick Hart to thank.

We speak with Dr. Diya Abdo from the Center for New North Carolinians about her work resettling refugees on college campuses.

Dr. Malia Jones shares the success story of Dear Pandemic, a popular social media outreach campaign encouraging people to “stay safe, stay sane.”