Where the boys are

Tears came to my eyes as I drove up to the campus of the University of Wisconsin Platteville last week.

It was 7:45 a.m., and the kids were streaming onto campus for their first classes. I stared. They were all boys. Hundreds of boys.  A few girls scattered in between.  But basically hundreds and hundreds and boys.

The campus is the only one in the entire state of Wisconsin where males are half of the students. Every other campus in the state, and most every other campus in the whole country, are dominated by female students. 

In a few months we mark 30 years of gender bias keeping smart males out of college.  If you want to know why the economy is slacking, we don't have enough engineers or scientists or food animal vets, this is why. For a moment I felt what it could be.  I was glad for the boys at this campus.

Photo: Welcome desk at the student union.

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