Male students enroll less, graduate less and more slowly, and misbehave more. With insights from “masculinity studies,” colleges are trying to teach them constructive ways to be a man. Critics on the right call the effort male-bashing. Critics on the left say it coddles an already privileged population.
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New strategies prompt male students to question skewed notions of manhood.
News
A masculinity-studies approach can get those messages across to male students behaving badly.
The Review
Maybe it’s time for the unsung heroes of everyday life to be our models — the ones who do what’s right simply because it’s the right thing to do.
