Finally, someone ‘gets it’
The drive to ramp up college graduations will go nowhere unless the issue of lagging males is addressed. To date, that problem has been pointedly ignored by educators and foundations, mostly due to political correctness. I mean, who wants to talk about helping males when they rule Wall Street and the White House?
But there’s hope. The Association of Public Land Grant Universities just issued this report and tied it to the goal of raising college graduations.
Tags: male imperative
November 18th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
The paper is well-written and lays out the problem clearly and calmly. You are right, this is the probably first time that the gender issue has been debated in a major forum for higher education administrators in the U.S.