Men are now the minority on campus. Young women have outpaced young men in college enrollment since the late 1980s with Black and Hispanic women surpassing their male peers by 8 percent in 2018. Some of this difference may be due to the belief among some young men that college “isn’t worth it” and they’re better off going into the workforce and avoiding the debt.
The Missing Men on Campus features news stories, analysis, advice, and opinion essays covering how some colleges are trying to draw more men of all backgrounds — and help them succeed once they get there.
Men as a whole aren't usually the group that comes to mind as needing a leg up. But for colleges, declining male enrollment means less revenue and less viewpoint diversity in the classroom.
Order your copy to discover why young men making the decision to work after high school may make short-term economic sense, but it's depriving them of lifetime earnings and deprives colleges of the perspectives they would bring to the classroom — both as students and as future professors
