Charles McCollum: Young women have steadily and markedly overtaken young men in college attendance and graduation.
Graduates at the University of Utah's commencement ceremony, in Salt Lake City on Thursday May 2, 2019.Like that fog famously described byA revolution in college attendance has quietly taken place over the past two decades, but the general public is largely unaware of it, and those who do keep close track of such things seem to be playing it low key – purring a bit, maybe, but certainly not meowing or barking.
As a long-time newspaper editor plugged into a wide variety of media sources, I never saw a word about this trend until something appeared a little over a year ago. Yet in my parallel life as an adjunct professor at Utah State University, I got a hint of it the first time I stood before a classroom in 2017. That newswriting class had 10 young women and only four young men, and the ratio has roughly held through 20 or so classes since then.
“Men dominate top positions in industry, finance, politics and entertainment. They also hold a majority of tenured faculty positions and run most U.S. college campuses. Yet female college students are running laps around their male counterparts,” the article’s author stated, noting that if the trend continues at its current pace, women will soon be earning college degrees at twice the rate of men.
And what if someone in higher ed now dared to suggest a recruiting effort for more guys? To many, I suspect this would be unthinkable after centuries of male dominance.
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