Giving Compass' Take:
- The Hechinger Report highlights how, during the pandemic, the drop in college enrollment has been seven times as sharp among men as among women.
- How can colleges support male students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds?
- Read about how colleges can support male students of color.
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That colleges have suffered big drops in enrollment isn’t news, but a closer look shows that the decline is worst among a part of the population that once made up the majority in higher education: men.
The number of men in college fell more than seven times more steeply during COVID than the number of women, accelerating a trend that has now resulted in women outnumbering men on campus by nearly two to one.
While enrollment in higher education overall fell 2.5 percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than seven times as steep as the decline among women, according to an analysis of figures from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Read the full article about male enrollment in college at The Hechinger Report.