Neil Gross

If you missed our previous podcast, it was how your politics affects your college experience.

Our speaker was Neil Gross, a professor of sociology at Colby, who discussed his book, What Happened to College? How Politics Broke Higher Education and What We Can Do About It.

Neil described how college students' political affiliations impact their friendships and dating, their classroom interactions with faculty and students, and their choice of major and career decisions.

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The collective bargaining agreements that Roe has studied are uneven, but they demonstrate a model in which academic freedom becomes something a person can point to rather than something they hope exists.

Okay, I promised a different reading of this moment, and the strongest one I know comes from the sociologist Neil Gross, whose new book, What Happened to College, came out at the end of this past August.

Gross has spent two decades studying the politics of higher education, and his argument places the center of gravity somewhere other than the statehouse.

In Gross's account, students drive campus polarization, sorting by political identity and their choices of colleges, majors, friends, roommates, and even dating partners.