Neil Gross.Photo by Jessica Berger Gross Nation & World When everything is politics on campus Sociologist Neil Gross argues polarization undermining education opportunities, lays out how students might change things Jacob Sweet Harvard Staff Writer September 14, 2026 6 min read Colby College sociologist Neil Gross says he thought he had a sense of the level of polarization on American college campuses based on his prior research. But Gross, author of the new book “What Happened to College,” said in an interview that he was surprised by how much things had changed in recent decades. “I didn’t realize how far it had gone,” said Gross, who is currently conducting research at the Radcliffe Insti...