Chapter 2: Universities Seeing a Gender Gap in Enrollments- Erin Mallants Rodriguez

In the excerpt, Universities Seeing a Gender Gap in Enrollments by Erin Mallants Rodriguez talks about the percentages of men that attend various universities and how the numbers are very scarce. There are way more women attending colleges right after high school than men. Just like Andre Lightbourn, director of admissions at St. Thomas University say,“College does not appeal to many of the male high school students...”(Anderson 59) in which I completely understand. The downside about males not going to college is that they end up with hardly any jobs and also low pay rate.  I believe that special programs or incentives are a clever way of drawing more males to enroll into college. If these incentives include more financial support or scholarships more men will apply because majority of the reason why people do not apply for college is because they cannot afford it. Incentives such as those will definitely draw more males to enroll. If special programs such as a All Male Support group for incoming students is created maybe it can help guide these men on a journey of success and actually help them remain in college rather than dropout.