tomder55
Sep 13, 2021, 02:18 AM
If I was a young man today I would be working 2 jobs ;doing overtime with or without a college education .Such is the opportunity today. I would also be keeping my eyes open constantly for better prospects .I would also be looking to improve my skill set .
But that is me .
If I was a woman I would be doing the same . But at least many more women are in college presumably getting the education needed to assume leadership in the future .
Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female college students by record levels.
At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline.
This education gap, which holds at both two- and four-year colleges, has been slowly widening for 40 years. The divergence increases at graduation: After six years of college, 65% of women in the U.S. who started a four-year university in 2012 received diplomas by 2018 compared with 59% of men during the same period, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
In the next few years, two women will earn a college degree for every man, if the trend continues, said Douglas Shapiro, executive director of the research center at the National Student Clearinghouse.
A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’ - WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-university-fall-higher-education-men-women-enrollment-admissions-back-to-school-11630948233)
Are the men learning a vocation instead ? There is nothing wrong in being a skilled laborer .Their services are in high demand and command high wages ,especially if those skills are combined with learning management .
Many young men who dropped out of college said they worried about their future but nonetheless quit school with no plan in mind. “I would say I feel hazy,” said 23-year-old Jay Wells, who quit Defiance College in Ohio after a semester. He lives with his mother and delivers pallets of soda for Coca-Cola Co. in Toledo for $20 an hour.
“I’m sort of waiting for a light to come on so I figure out what to do next,” he said.
That is not a plan . But part of the problem is the schools themselves . Why should a young man pay premium prices to be taught that he is the scum of the earth ;especially a white man ? Schools teach them that they are the lowest form of human life that they have to denounce their gender and their race .
But that is me .
If I was a woman I would be doing the same . But at least many more women are in college presumably getting the education needed to assume leadership in the future .
Men are abandoning higher education in such numbers that they now trail female college students by record levels.
At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline.
This education gap, which holds at both two- and four-year colleges, has been slowly widening for 40 years. The divergence increases at graduation: After six years of college, 65% of women in the U.S. who started a four-year university in 2012 received diplomas by 2018 compared with 59% of men during the same period, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
In the next few years, two women will earn a college degree for every man, if the trend continues, said Douglas Shapiro, executive director of the research center at the National Student Clearinghouse.
A Generation of American Men Give Up on College: ‘I Just Feel Lost’ - WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-university-fall-higher-education-men-women-enrollment-admissions-back-to-school-11630948233)
Are the men learning a vocation instead ? There is nothing wrong in being a skilled laborer .Their services are in high demand and command high wages ,especially if those skills are combined with learning management .
Many young men who dropped out of college said they worried about their future but nonetheless quit school with no plan in mind. “I would say I feel hazy,” said 23-year-old Jay Wells, who quit Defiance College in Ohio after a semester. He lives with his mother and delivers pallets of soda for Coca-Cola Co. in Toledo for $20 an hour.
“I’m sort of waiting for a light to come on so I figure out what to do next,” he said.
That is not a plan . But part of the problem is the schools themselves . Why should a young man pay premium prices to be taught that he is the scum of the earth ;especially a white man ? Schools teach them that they are the lowest form of human life that they have to denounce their gender and their race .