Colleges struggle to recruit more men

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

As a white male from the suburbs of New York, Brendan Scheld had never felt like a minority.

But that was before he enrolled as a freshman at the University of Delaware.

In last semester's calculus course of 40 students, he said, only five men would show up for class.

"We'd all kind of look at each other, and we'd have each other's backs," Scheld said over a recent lunch at the university's crowded food court, where he and a fraternity brother were the only pair of men sitting together.

Not that he and his friend, Ryan Helthall, are complaining. "We both have girlfriends we met here," said Helthall, a senior from Sparta, N.J. "We did not have slim pickings."

How many women entering higher education realize they are going to de facto Women's Colleges?