SJU hosts sixth annual Conference on the College Male

Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2009-01-28 14:03

Article here. Excerpt:

'The sixth annual Conference on the College Male, “Best Practices for Involving College Men,” is Feb. 13-14 at Saint John’s University, Collegeville.

In addition to four speakers, 14 universities and colleges will present pilot programs to increase college men’s participation in volunteering and vocational discernment activities. The program, funded by a grant from the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc., will identify best practices and a theoretical model for what works with college men, and why.

The $599,000 grant, awarded to SJU in November 2007, will identify ways to increase men’s involvement in volunteering, leadership training and vocational decision-making activities. The two-year grant runs through Dec. 31, 2009, and is designed to address chronic underrepresentation of college men in these types of activities. For example, only one-third of students who volunteer are men.'

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For example, only one-third of students who volunteer are men.

Umm, only 30-35% of the average college or university's undergraduates are men, dumbass. That's why only one-third of your volunteers are men. As always, the women in academia can't count without using their fingers and toes.

It's a nice but failed attempt to depict men as selfish and uninvolved.

So since I've corrected their math and their myth, why do they expect men to do more than their fair share? Why isn't there a grant concerned with attracting more men to a university education?

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Submitted by RandomMan on Wed, 2009-01-28 20:29