According to this post at Applied Rationality, which in turn links to an Inside Higher Ed article, it seems that small liberal arts colleges are struggling with their own bizarro world cases of gender equity:
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has started an inquiry into the extent to which liberal arts colleges discriminate against female applicants in an attempt to minimize gender imbalances in the student body. On Friday, the commission agreed on a set of colleges — primarily in the Washington area — to investigate, but declined to release a full list.
The issue is an extremely sensitive one for liberal arts colleges, many of which in recent years have worried about their gender ratios reaching points (60 percent female is commonly cited) where they face difficulty in attracting both male and female applicants. Generally private undergraduate colleges have the legal right to consider gender in admissions. They were specifically exempted from the admissions provisions of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.
People, it's not complicated. Want more dudes? Simply do the following:
- Install 60" flat screens in every dorm room.
- Outfit all rooms with an Xbox and a free subscription to Live.
- Also provide unlimited supplies of nachos and any fried food.
- Remove any "English Literature" requirements from the curriculum. Yes, yes I know it's a "Liberal Arts" college, but what's so liberal about reading boring crap written by a bunch of whimpy navel gazers or, well, women. Sounds anything but liberal to me.
- Introduce a course on Family Guy, and call it something cool sounding like, "Influence of Modern American Cartoons on Familial Discourse."
Do those things and you'll be swimmin' in dudes. You might be wondering why I didn't mention free beer, but honestly today's generation of young dudes seem to be a bunch of pansies who drink froo-froo concoctions with all kinds of silly names. Sadly, the beer would be wasted.