Purdue president missteps in comments on 'missing' college men

Image:  This academic year has seen a flurry of news articles about the widening gender gap on college campuses, with women now outnumbering men by about three to two. These articles apparently caught the attention of Purdue University president Mitch Daniels, who sandwiched a discussion about them somewhere between COVID-19 numbers and innovation plans in his annual winter letter to “the people” of Purdue. “Assuming one agrees that this is a problem, Purdue is playing a part in...