On top of that, smarter kids are starting to question the value of a grossly overpriced “college experience.”
One interesting tidbit. My alma mater has, for maybe the last decade, has featured black or brown students on their advertising and website. You did see some white women (usually alongside black men), but hardly every any white men. And no blonds. If there was a white man in a picture, he was barely visible at the back of the group. Or “he” was obviously trans.
Well, this year, things changed a lot. On the website, there is a picture of a BLOND white male student talking to a white female student. No others in the picture. I could not believe it. You could have knocked me over with a feather.
Of course, it could have SOMETHING to do with plummeting enrollment and revenue. It seems that WHATEVER they were doing was not working. Imagine that?
I checked my alma mater about 10 years ago and it had gone from solid conservative to all wokey dokey. I’d been afraid to look until your post. Whew, it looks normal again. Well, they have added some European sports but didn’t see anyone with a green crayon. Such a relief.
Two years ago, my friends took their rising high school senior daughter and rising sophomore son on a trip to visit colleges. They saw about 12 schools over 3 weeks from NY to Texas. Salve Regina flat out said the boy wouldn’t get any scholarships but the daughter might. The lady at Clemson was talking crap about white men to mom and daughter when father and son joined them. The look on her face, they said, was priceless. They wrote a letter when daughter declined that acceptance saying they coukd not in good conscience send their daughter to such a racist and sexist college. That woman was replaced.
The son started telling admission people leading the tours, (of the colleges the sister didn’t like), if there were no white men on the cover, he knew that he could never feel comfortable attending that school. He knew that school would single out those that looked like him for the same discrimination they received by teachers in his NY high school. Maybe enough others said the same type of things to make colleges take notice.