As women become 60% of all US college students and continue to outpace and outperform men, the WSJ takes a look at how colleges and students feel about it

Archive.is link, because the actual article is about 2500 words long.

An article about how there are more women in college and how they're doing better than men.

At the close of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students, an all-time high, and men 40.5%, according to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline.

This education gap, which holds at both two- and four-year colleges, has been slowly widening for 40 years. The divergence increases at graduation: After six years of college, 65% of women in the U.S. who started a four-year university in 2012 received diplomas by 2018 compared with 59% of men during the same period, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

American colleges, which are embroiled in debates over racial and gender equality, and working on ways to reduce sexual assault and harassment of women on campus, have yet to reach a consensus on what might slow the retreat of men from higher education. Some schools are quietly trying programs to enroll more men, but there is scant campus support for spending resources to boost male attendance and retention.

No college wants to tackle the issue under the glare of gender politics, said Ms. Delahunty, the enrollment consultant. The conventional view on campuses, she said, is that “men make more money, men hold higher positions, why should we give them a little shove from high school to college?”

Yet the stakes are too high to ignore, she said. “If you care about our society, one, and, two, if you care about women, you have to care about the boys, too. If you have equally educated numbers of men and women that just makes a better society, and it makes it better for women.”

In 2008, Mr. Smith proposed a men’s center to help male students succeed. The proposal drew criticism from women who asked, “Why would you give more resources to the most privileged group on campus,” he said.

Funding wasn’t appropriated, he said, and the center was never built.

It seems like this is the core of the problem. In the past, the idea that women could be better than men at anything other than the stuff women were/are assigned to do was unthinkable, and now one of, if not the first examplee of women doing objectively better than men somewhere for reasons other than being forced into doing that by gender roles imposed on them. Some consider just doing the same things they did & do for minorities, or various forms of affirmative action and support, but politically those programs and ideas have always been for minorities because they were the ones facing discrimination so doing that obviously won't be seen as progressive even if you use the same methods.

One thing worth noting though is that apparently the amount of men enrolling in college hasn't actually gotten lower as per the actual headline of the article, more so that women's enrollment has kept getting higher and is increasing faster than men.