Sunday, October 02, 2005

Is Campus Gender Gap A Problem?

The Seattle Times reports on the lack of men on campus:
In 1975, women constitute 45 percent of all U.S. college students. This year, they represent 57.6 percent. The U.S. Department of Education estimates that, by 2014, women will earn 60 percent of all bachelor's degrees and will earn a majority of professional and doctoral degrees. Yet U.S. Census figures show 51 percent of adults under 35 are men.
and this revealing quote:
"I've heard a lot of girls complaining there are not a lot of guys to date," said WSU veterinary student Dean Lusk, 26.
How many girls going off to college are aware that they are going to a de facto "women's college"? You can bet in the near future the colleges will quietly be letting in white males with lesser grades.