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Actually, if you read the original article, there's no declining number of men on campus; there's a declining _percentage_ of men in college student bodies nationwide. Which mainly means that more women are going in.
What the article doesn't say, is that a lot of the increase in college women comes in two-year programs at the community college level. Community college in many areas is the main vocational training institution. A lot of decent paying careers that women are easily accepted in now require a two-year degree: real estate, bookkeeping, vocational nursing, landscaping, dental hygienist, cosmetology, legal studies or AJ, and more. And all the women enrolled in these programs count as college students in the stats that are being quoted. This is according to another article that I read recently, based on the same information. If you take all the two-year-degree women and men out of the equation, the proportions of men and women are a lot more equal. Because non-college men have more access better-paying jobs than women without formal training (or with non-college voc-ed training). More men can work in construction, trucking, manufacturing, etc. They can get $15-25 for that work. But for most women to get a job making that money, they need the two-year college programs.
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