[GMMAC]

Poster has children of both genders and accordingly favors fairness and results based solely upon merit in all matters of public policy.

Note: as The Edmonton Journal operates a pay-to-view website, the url cited only confirms the article's source.
Text was furnished by the author.

[GMMAC]

PING!

[Pondman88]

This is a new phenomena in the US as well. While good for the men on campus, long term i wonder what this means? Why are men not going to college?

[ViLaLuz]

Many of the men on campus look like women.

[goodnesswins]

Maybe, MAYBE, the men ARE smarter than women, and have figured out that today's "college education" ain't worth it!

[blanknoone]

Do many of the schools in Canuckistan feature 'affirmitive action' for women? Is gender a consideration in application? Perhaps it is time to recognize men as a discriminated against minority.

[stevem]

My daughter is a senior at Creighton (Omaha). She says it's about 70% female. It doesn't seem to me it would be too hard to recruit males to such an environment.

My son graduated from Marquette (Milwaukee). I never heard that the ratio was that skewed, but don't know. Every time I visited the campus, there seemed to be lots of lasses about.

My oldest daughter went to UW (Eau Claire) I thought at one time I heard the lasses outnumbered the lads at that institution.

This may be naive, but I feel the object should be to get an education. As for Marquette and Creighton, I think the Jesuits have learned a thing or two about educating folks. I also recall extremely good feelings regarding EW (Eau Claire) especially when my oldest explained what they discussed regarding social issues. Each of my kids have studied in science or engineering, and I think each of these schools performed well. My kids are conservative and have never been maltreated because of that.

I don't recall these ratios when I graduated in the 1970's. Maybe I was born 25 years too early.

[TChris]

After decades of overt repression of everything male, maybe some boys and young men are actually believing it enough to hold lower expectations of themselves. If you continuously tell boys that they are destined to be crude, ham-fisted neanderthals who are interested only in sex and sports, many of them will oblige you. Kids tend to live up to, or down to, the expectations of the adults around them.

Far too many feminists have spent decades promoting the simple-minded approach of beating down masculinity and berating men with such a broad brush that it was bound to have an adverse effect in the long run. Add to this the fact that many of these philosophies have worked their way into our laws and schools and, well, this is what you get.

[ken21]

3 things account for this:

1. radical feminism in public schools have resulted in many men not wanting more of the same in universities. blue collar jobs offer freedom from bureaucracy.

2. many trades now offer excellent pay: a. baby boomers are retiring. b. the preference for college educations of the last several decades led to shortages of labor.

3. the cost of college educations may not justify the expenses of money and the years spent to get the degrees.

many colleges reduced tenured faculties' teaching loads from 3 to 2 courses per term. meanwhile, the taxpayers who support public schools by means of their taxes increased their productivity, and have no tenure.

tenured faculty average about $100,000 per year -- not bad for 9 months' work with lots of vacations through the year.