Simply they do not desire to become like the people they see in it, or the ones they see graduating. > “That’s why we need both parties to offer a positive vis

Simply they do not desire to become like the people they see in it, or the ones they see graduating. > “That’s why we need both parties to offer a positive vision of college and a positive vision of masculinity. If male identity is seen, by some, as being at odds with education, that’s a problem for the whole country.” The question should be, how did college repel young men? That's pretty obvious in the last decade and 90% of it barely merits an article. However, the conseqeunce is likely a milennial middle class baby bust that is just building momentum as this cohort of women who graduated into professional careers ages out of child bearing years and the scramble for donors intensifies. Men who don't graduate are in effect mostly ineligible as partners for women who do, then other factors like poor fitness levels, choice paralysis, unsecured debt, housing bubbles, and lately a virus of political polarization are reducing the likelihood of durable matches for all involved. I'd be less concerned with maintaining retroactive continuity on the college narrative and asking what is to be done, and instead, being prepared for handling the consequent bust this dynamic has set us all up for.