According to organizers,” we can do more for people without doing less for women and girls.”
Two academics told The College Fix that a new partnership between roughly 20 colleges and universities aims to address the severe drop in female enrollment, which is urgently needed.
People are now earning two out of every five college degree, which is a significant change in the demographics of higher education, and they are more likely than women to drop out of college. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville and the American Institute for Boys and Men recently released a statement that highlights these changes.
The college and university decided to launch the Higher Education Male Achievement Collaborative in October in response to the decline in female membership and college admission.
The initiative offers sources, webinars, and an annual conference and provides a forum for collaboration between colleges, educational leaders, and nonprofit organizations. According to a media release, 21 colleges and universities are now participating.
In a press release, Richard Reeves, the founding president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, stated that” we want to ensure that every student has the opportunity to thrive. We firmly believe that we can do more for people without doing less for women and girls.” He did not respond to The Fix‘s comments on the article.
However, SAVE chairman Edward Bartlett stated to The College Fix that this is the first initiative of its kind he is aware of. His business emphasizes justice and due process for people, especially on school campuses.
According to Bartlett,” The HEMAC is an important and significant effort to address the issues that people in higher education face.”
He told The Fix,” Men are even deserving of “gender equality,” underscoring the importance of closing the achievement gap between female students.
According to Bartlett,” Adult admissions in higher learning have been declining for many years, partially due to scholarship applications that directly discriminate against men.” ” HEMAC will focus attention on this issue in the people.”
According to administrators, the joint aims to shed light on systemic problems that are contributing to the decline in female success.
For instance, according to a study released in April through the academy, many usually male-dominated majors like engineering and computer science have lost some of their male characteristics, while others that are more usually “female,” like English and philosophy, have also grown to be “more woman.”
In an appointment with The Fix, Sean Kullman, co-author of the text” Kids, A Rescue Plan: Moving Beyond the Politicians of Masculinity to Healthy Male Development,” stressed the need for a precise focus on female students.  ,
In a recent email, Kullman wrote,” The Higher Education Male Achievement Collaborative ( HEMAC ) is a step in the right direction because men of all races are behind their female counterparts—and frequently across racial lines] in college enrollment and graduation rates.
He cited studies conducted in partnership with the Pell Institute and the U.S. Census Bureau that looked at data from 161 million centered community members between the ages of 18 and 24.
The study found that black, white, and Hispanic men were trailing all other races in terms of school participation, with the only exception being Eastern men. According to Kullman, the participation rates for charcoal, Spanish, and white men were statistically comparable, so it seems like there is more to the issue than for other sex groups.
Kullman added that earlier action in the K-12 schooling system is necessary because many of the challenges that boys face in higher education are caused by inappropriate education practices that don’t take into account brain-sex differences.
He told The Fix,” It’s not that teachers don’t worry; it’s that they need aid learning best practices that promote a brain-sex approach to teaching.”
He added that “parents and teachers immediately recognize that boys and girls have unique needs and that our society finds it unsettling to address in the classroom.”
Kullman said he thinks a more effective method of K-12 education did encourage boys to be engaged, which might in turn lead to improved college success.
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In a school classroom, a male student accompanies various female students. IMAGE CAPTION AND CREDIT Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock, American Institute for Boys and Men/Facebook
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