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Re:Why Americans Have Lost Faith in the Value of College by Reubend on Monday January 22, 2024 @02:25AM (#39087201)
How do you prove this? I don't see any quantitate evidence of any sort that indicates that men are avoiding college due to political correctness or the Me Too movement. You might feel that this is obvious due to your gut instinct, but I bet that if you surveyed 100 men about why they didn't go to college, very few would name Me Too as a reason.

My own gut instinct is that the high cost of tuition combined with the diminishing value of a bachelor's degree are the biggest reasons.

Now that the internet is providing free access to most of the world's knowledge, there are very few reasons that one HAS to go to college to acquire knowledge.

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Re:Why Americans Have Lost Faith in the Value of College by thr0way120 on Monday January 22, 2024 @12:46PM (#39092618)
Why did male enrollment fall off a cliff post October 2017. Look at the 2018 trend. That is immediately after Me Too.

The article conflates men and women leaving college, but the data clearly shows men are by far the biggest defectors.

Why didnt anyone ask men why they are leaving more than women? Is it because the answer is not politically acceptable (democrats) who run the media?

Yes. Ask any man in industry or university and they will tell you there has been a witch hunt against men.

Thats the data, its in the actual article.

Can you explain any other reason why men would suddenly check out en masse at that time? The economy was good.

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Re:Why Americans Have Lost Faith in the Value of College by cafard on Monday January 22, 2024 @02:48PM (#39094423)
Are you aware that News Corporation (Rupert Murdoch) owns the Wall Street Journal?
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