Article Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?

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https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why...irect=true

EXCERPTS: “Nearly 60 percent of all college students today are women. That’s an all-time high… U.S. colleges and universities have lost about 1.5 million students in the past several years. Men accounted for 71 percent of that loss.”

[...] White flight is a term that describes how white people move out of neighborhoods when more people of color move in. White flight is especially common when minority populations become the majority. That neighborhood then declines in value. Male flight describes a similar phenomenon when large numbers of females enter a profession, group, hobby or industry—the men leave. That industry is then devalued.

[...] Similar patterns of male flight have occurred in nursing, cheerleading, social work, architecture, gymnastics, library sciences and psychology.

Since males had dominated these professions for centuries, you would think they would leave slowly, hesitantly or maybe linger at 40%, 35%, 30%, but that’s not what happens. Once the tipping point reaches majority female- the men flee. And boy do they flee!

It’s a slippery slope. When the number of women hits 60% the men who are there make a swift exit and other men stop joining...

The less controversial reasons given for the exodus:

[...] Scholars, journalists, college presidents and reddit thread philosophers have all come to the table to add their particular offering to the buffet of reasons why fewer boys are going to college.

The Pew Research Center has found that boys are more likely to think they don’t need a degree for the jobs they want, and when they do enroll in college, work opportunities lure them away.

Ruth Simmons, president of A&M University thinks “the problem is the way we treat our boys in k-12. They turn away from school because of the negative messages they get at school… Behavior that is rewarded for boys doesn’t fit well with good student behavior.”

Another college president, Donald Ruff believes it boils down to money. “Honestly I think it’s the sticker shock. To see $100,000 that’s daunting.”

Author Richard Reeves thinks, “The main reason is that girls are outperforming boys in school."

Other reasons I came across while researching for this article include:

• Men can make more money without a college degree than women can, so women need college more.
  
• Higher rates of alcohol, drug use, gangs and prison for boys negate college as a viable option.
  
• Colleges are usually left-leaning, so right-leaning students increasingly don’t feel comfortable there. And more men than women lean right.
  
• Men join the military more than women.
  
• A man will sometimes have to provide for wife/kids before he can finish college.
  

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[Syne]

As soon as something is less elite the less objective value it has. Like the saying goes, "if everyone is special, no one is." And in the case of college, the incentive has become getting more students, especially of the right demographics, rather than better students. So if everyone "should get a college degree," it loses valve because it is less difficult to achieve and less rare. This is just basic economics.

Men thrive on things like challenge and making a name for themselves. Once a field is dominated by a minority, it proves that it is less of a challenge, simply because more people are able to do it. Similarly, a neighborhood that more people can afford to live in must be less valuable.

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Steve the Builder posted this. I would NEVER have done that (or even thought it).

Also.. at the risk of making people angry, have you considered that when all the men leave, things get a bit shit?