The men will come back, the experts believed, as the economy slows. Of course, male high school graduates earn more than female high school graduates. The return on the investment for women is greater than the return on the investment for men. But admissions counselors have started questioning that argument. But when it comes to turning things around he's stumped.
Some people attribute some of that difference to the way children are raised.
Mortenson, whose work primarily involves research on financial aid, started raising flags about the decline in male college enrollment five years ago, after he saw that others were not looking at the data. And he does not see the reduction in college participation as an isolated problem. When he looks at the numbers, Mortenson sees men voting in lower numbers and abandoning their children at higher rates. When young males are disengaging from all their traditional roles from the past, you have to ask yourself if the world is changing in ways that males are having a hard time adapting to. What to do School officials are making efforts.