Now the majority of students in college are female. Men won't compete for female roles. And never has a liberal arts education been so debased in its substance, nor disregarded in its value.
When women take over certain roles heretofore the preserve of men, a corollary of Gresham's Law seems to take effect.
Men leave, the women take over, and the 'feminized' position loses prestige and value in men's eyes.
So with a liberal arts education, so too with altar service and the priesthood, so too, also, with many mainline Protestant ministries.
It has long been true of public education. Only athletics seems to engage the attention of boys but even here on in those sporting activities that have commercial possibilities. The Title IX debacle has undermined the minor men's sports by causing a great shift of funding to Football and basketball and basebal programs. Once step-children of the athletic departments, now they are orphans.