What isn't much reported is that a lot of the imbalance occurs because campuses are pressured to recruit minority students and find that the minority students they are able to recruit and retain are women. In this article which runs four pages, here is all that is said about the impact of ethnic and racial designation on this imbalance, quoting Jacqueline King, an American Council on Education policy analyst:
In particular, black, Hispanic and low-income white males “are far outpaced by their female peers,” King said. (snip) In South Carolina, males make up 43 percent of enrollment at public four-year colleges, 40 percent of enrollment at technical colleges and 39 percent at private institutions, according to the state Commission on Higher Education. Males make up 31 percent of black enrollment at the state’s public four-year colleges, 29 percent of black enrollment at technical colleges and 36 percent of black enrollment at private colleges, according to commission data.In four pages, that is all that is said about a major cause of the imbalance, perhaps the major cause of the imbalance. It is wonderful how political correctness causes folks to tiptoe around sensitive issues.
