As part of America’s continual racial reckoning, an increasing number of universities have joined the effort by institutions to examine their past connections to white supremacy. Universities are chief among institutions that must examine their past and seek to make amends for the ways they profited from the exploitation of Black people. The most egregious form of this exploitation was the use of enslaved labor to build the university and accumulate its wealth. In the past few decades, university professors and students have worked to uncover their universities’ ties to slavery and seek to find ways to respond. Schools across the South have joined these efforts, often in spite of resistance from their universities’ administrators. Furthermore, Southern universities are often located in states with a large Black population, yet their student bodies are still significantly whiter than their states’ population. In this session, graduate students from four different Southern universities will discuss the methods and challenges of students researching slavery at Southern universities. Additionally, this panel will discuss ways that this research on slavery at the university can be used to bring attention to the work that universities need to continue to undertake in order to create more racially equitable student and faculty populations after decades of discrimination, exclusion, and exploitation.