Kathryn and John posted part two of a NYT feature on women in higher education this morning, which shows how smaller schools are using football to attract more male students. Make sure to go back and catch a glimpse of part one of the feature, which ran in yesterday’s NYT. Schools are using a lot more than football to attract men. When Robert Massa started as vice president at Dickinson College only 36 percent of the campus was male. Massa increased male enrollment to 44 percent by a number of methods, including highlighting Dickinson’s new physics, computer science, and math building, and by starting a program in international business. Wait a tick, is Massa implying that men have different innate differences in their preferences in academics? You bet he is. Hopefully Massa gets treated better than Larry Summers.

IWF commentary on the NYT piece from our Inkwell blog can be found here and here .

As Kathryn says , all this fewer-men-in-college stuff must be a nightmare for feminists. Well, it should be a nightmare, but so far they’ve done a pretty good job of avoiding reality. Feminist rhetoric thus far has been to deny any problem with men and simply praise the success of college women. That bad logic is bound to catch up to them eventually. No one benefits when boys fail because education isn’t a zero-sum game.