Where Did All the Boys Go?

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'Providence College has had issues maintaining male enrollment in the past, and this has impacted the sports teams. The Friars had to cut men's tennis, golf, and baseball in order to comply with Title IX regulations. Title IX states that there must be equal opportunities for men and women; this includes the number of sports scholarships and sporting opportunities. Other universities have faced similar issues with sports and Title IX compliance; Boston University, for example, cut its football program and dedicated the resources to women's sports.

According to Associate Vice President and Dean of Admission Chris Lydon, the first class to have a larger female population than male was the class of 1985, 10 years after the school became co-educational. That class had a population of 51.5 percent women and 48.5 percent men. Since that point, the percentage of boys in various entering classes has ranged from around 45 to 38 percent, with a rise to 47 percent in the class of 2008. Lydon admitted that the yield of males this year was unexpectedly low, but says he is not sure exactly why.
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The lack of males on college campuses raises bigger issues about the treatment of males in American high schools. It is a curious question as to why male students are being outpaced by their female counterparts. Strategies that have been suggested to improve the standing of males in classrooms include the creation of single-sex classrooms and male mentoring programs.

Despite troubling national statistics about boys in higher education, not all attitudes on campus are very concerned about the manner. The residents of Guzman Hall were quite pleased that there were more girls than boys on campus, and said that they thought the male-to-female ratio was "absolutely fine."'