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{{B}}The New Math on
Campus{{/B}}
{{B}}Sexual Imbalance in Colleges{{/B}}
After midnight
on a rainy night last week in Chapel Hill, N.C., a large group of sorority
(女学生联谊会) women at the University of North Carolina squeezed into a basement bar.
Bathed in a colorful glow, they splashed beer from pitchers, traded jokes and
shouted lyrics to a Taylor Swift heartache anthem thundering overhead. As a
night out, it had everything--except guys.
North Carolina, with
a student body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large
universities that at times feel weirdly like women’s colleges. Women have
represented about 57 percent of enrollments at American colleges since at least
2000, according to a recent report by the American Council on Education.
Researchers there cite several reasons: women tend to have higher grades; men
tend to drop out in disproportionate numbers; and female enrollment
[填空题]The New Math on Campus
Sexual Imbalance in Colleges
After midnight on a rainy night last week in Chapel Hill, N.C., a large group of sorority (女学生联谊会) women at the University of North Carolina squeezed into a basement bar. Bathed in a colorful glow, they splashed beer from pitchers, traded jokes and shouted lyrics to a Taylor Swift heartache anthem thundering overhead. As a night out, it had everything--except guys.
North Carolina, with a student body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large universities that at times feel weirdly like women’s colleges. Women have represented about 57 percent of enrollments at American colleges since at least 2000, according to a recent report by the American Council on Education. Researchers there cite several reasons: women tend to have higher grades; men tend to drop out in disproportionate numbers; and female enrollment leads further among older students, low-income students, and black students.
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