Affirmative action for male students is new ‘dirty little secret’: US colleges ‘worried’ | Daily Mail Online
Posted by M. C. on September 8, 2021
By Rachel Sharp For Dailymail.com and Lauren Lewis For Mailonline
Affirmative action for male students is new ‘dirty little secret’: US colleges ‘worried’ as men abandon courses in record numbers – but are afraid to speak out amid glare of gender politics
- Data from National Student Clearinghouse reveals female students accounted for 59.5% of all college enrollments in spring 2021, compared to 40.5% men
- The gap is widening, with 400,000 fewer male students enrolling in 2021 than 2020, versus 200,000 fewer female students
- Some admissions experts are voicing concerns about the long-term impact
- Colleges and schools afraid to ask for male student funding over gender politics
- Jennifer Delahunty, a college enrollment consultant, said efforts to redress the balance has become ‘higher education’s dirty little secret’
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