Lost Men on Campus

Well over half of all college students are women. Why are fewer men than women attending college?

Inside Higher Ed recently had an article on this issue: Lost Men on Campus.

I don't normally read Inside Higher Ed, but one of the bloggers I sometimes read (Instapundit—a law professor at the University of Tennessee) wrote about this article: "the mentality revealed in this story is the problem." He also quoted a reader's favorable mention of the Boy Scouts. Read the whole blog post. He also wrote in 2005 on this subject: Where the Boys Aren't.

Instapundit's answer to the question in the first paragraph is: "because the environment has become hostile."

UPDATE 6/14/09: For an example of what Instapundit means by a hostile environment, see this post where a university professor blames men for, of all things, cheerfulness.