Thursday, October 1, 2015

Chapter 2. Universities Seeing Gender Gap Enrollments


This article by Erin Mallants Rodriguez talks about the growing issue of more women attending college than men. The thing is, the gap isn't small either, its a very large gender gap. Recent polls have shown this. At Barry university only 28 percent  of the student body is male. Also at the University of Miami males made up 43 percent. This is the trend everywhere in the country. Part of the reason this is happening because women tend to be more well informed and are tend to be better performing students.
I answered question 2. Since men tend to be a growing minority in colleges I believe that colleges should create incentives to help draw in male students. First, I think colleges should market to men more to show them what college has to offer and why it can be beneficial instead of heading right into the work force. Also colleges could give scholarships and grants to male students that go to college as an extra incentive.

1 comment:

  1. I agree most of my friends growing up were hard working construction workers. These are jobs where you don't need a college degree and to a college student 10 dollars an hour is a lot of money so they feel that they can live of this salary. I feel that high schools should help young men understand they need to further their education, so they can have a better life.

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