Sandra Steele, Educational Consultant

Where are the men?

At colleges across the country, the gender imbalance has been growing steadily for decades as women continue to outpace men in the pursuit of higher education. Teenage girls typically have better grades than their male counterparts, but college admissions officers say they can't stand idly by and watch the schools become mostly female bastions. So colleges are taking steps to reverse the trend by reaching out to high school boys through direct marketing and phone calls from recruiters and male professors.