AP Article about declining college enrollment doesn't even mention the gender disparity - roughly 60% female/40% male; the "Lace Curtain" in action

Htrail1234 · 2023-03-10T15:14:50+00:00

Don't mess with the narrative otherwise it would be necessary to admit you were wrong.

Unnecessary_Timeline · 2023-03-10T16:26:34+00:00

I work as staff at a public state college and nobody talks about declining male enrollment at all.

It’s pretty crazy because my state has a well known “enrollment cliff” that’s going to happen around 2026-2028. Basically, we know the number of graduating high schoolers is going to drastically plummet in those years because the birth rate 18 years prior plummeted. So it’s a matter of there literally less young people existing.

Despite this knowledge, there’s absolutely zero discussion of targeting male students as an underserved population. There are robust conversations about targeting and serving any and every ethnicity, about developing “women in STEM” campaigns, about making STEM classrooms more “comfortable” for women (whatever that means), targeting every rural smaller town, targeting “non-traditional” aka adult students, enhancing masters programs, developing remote/online programs, and literally any other nonsense you could possibly think of.

Except men and boys. Despite males making up less than 37% of our students, there is literally no discussions of targeting them as a demographic or adjusting curriculum to serve what they’re looking for or changing teaching styles or classrooms to cater to their needs. Nothing at all.

And you know what’ll happen due to this? Men will increasingly find success outside of academia, without degrees, and then in 10-15 years those men will be blamed for perpetuating a gendered divide in the side of the workforce that doesn’t require college. We’ll be blamed, again, when the real problem is nobody ever talks about men as a demographic unless they’re blaming us for something.

Early-Department-234 · 2023-03-10T15:58:15+00:00

Average Men falling through the cracks: Yay feminism.
Average Men fallen through the cracks at risk of becoming social outlaws: We must fund more feminism which affects average men.
The Canadian elites fear a growing underclass of disenfranchised men, which was why they were the first to vilify an American pickup artist at a national level, for hosting a bar meetup in Montreal and Toronto.
So make up your minds feminists and elites. You want to create an underclass for average men, yet don't want an underclass because historically, a growing underclass of young and angry men is not good news for the elites?

63daddy · 2023-03-10T16:31:28+00:00

Sadly this article like so many fails to address the cause of the problem. It doesn’t mention how colleges have become anti-male, hostile towards anyone who’s not some and it doesn’t address why college costs are rising, which are the root causes.

There are many resins why college costs are increasing but certainly one reason is all the money being spent on diversity & inclusion and all the other woke, often anti-male programming that has nothing to do with education.

The solution isn’t to have taxpayers pay, the solution is to cut such hostile programming, end the discrimination, trim other fat programs, reducing the hostility and costs.

Sadly any politician who tries to address this gets crucified by the woke media.

AgeOfReasonEnds31120 · 2023-03-11T17:27:38+00:00

60% of college enrollees are female... yet our workforce is 60% male.

What an enigma.

1950s gender roles can eat a dick.

Jean_o_tails · 2023-03-10T16:39:25+00:00

Men are CHOOSING not to go to college. They are not being systematically excluded from it.

Title	AP Article about declining college enrollment doesn't even mention the gender disparity - roughly 60% female/40% male; the "Lace Curtain" in action
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Date	March 10, 2023 3:01 PM UTC (3 years ago)
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