WELL, IT’S A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: Men say ‘meh’ to college. “Thirty-nine percent of male high school graduates are enrolled in college now, down from 47 percent in 2011, Fry reports. Forty-eight percent of female high school graduates are enrolled in college, down from 48 percent. The gender gap in college-going is widest for white high school graduates, Pew reports.”

The hate has consequences.

HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT YIELDS DESIRED RESULTS: Center-right law professors ‘have had enough,’ leaving academia for other opportunities.

If I were to leave under these circumstances, I’d explain exactly why and encourage alumni not to donate. And at a state school, I’d communicate that to the legislature, too. Don’t give them what they want for free.

SOUNDS LIKE THE UNIVERSITY IS CREATING A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT BASED ON SEX: Campus ‘bro culture’ is racist, according to university’s ‘Self-Education’ webpage.

Related: Bros are people too.

SHE IS RIGHT:   Smith College Whistleblower Jodi Shaw Resigns Over “Racially Hostile Environment” Created By Critical Race Training.

ONE MORE REASON THAT CAMPUSES ARE A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT FOR MEN:  Study finds that 92% of sex-specific scholarships at colleges and universities are for women.

HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: Yale suspended male student because of condom accident.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT EDITION: Men ‘don’t deserve opinions,’ tweeted new director of gender relations.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, HATING-MEN EDITION: Harvard creates a ‘hostile environment against men,’ complaint says.

CHANGE: Britain creates a more hostile environment for immigrants: The country once welcomed foreigners. Now, not so much.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT EDITION: A Resident Advisor at the University of Pittsburgh recently put up a display warning students about “toxic masculinity” and the “social reproduction of patriarchy.” This sort of thing serves to marginalize and discourage male students, and encourage bullying and micro aggressions against them. I think the Department of Education should investigate.

BECAUSE COLLEGES HAVE SPENT THREE DECADES CREATING A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT FOR MALE STUDENTS? The Atlantic: Why Men Are the New College Minority. “Where men once went to college in proportions far higher than women—58 percent to 42 percent as recently as the 1970s—the ratio has now almost exactly reversed.”

And yet the admissions and student-conduct offices almost everywhere are overwhelmingly female. Plus:

“There’s a lot of attention on empowering girls. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that, but males are the ones in crisis in education.”

Jackson thinks there’s a surprising racial component. There’s not much work being done to encourage boys to go to college, he said, because not all of those boys are from racial and ethnic minorities society regards as disadvantaged. A lot of them are white.

“It’s a tough discussion to have and a hard pill to swallow when you have to start the conversation with, ‘White males are not doing as well as one might historically think,’” he said. “We’re uncomfortable as a nation having a discussion that includes white males as a part of a group that is having limited success.”

Well, if you start paying attention to facts like that, progressive politics will lose one of its favorite hate objects.

SOUNDS LIKE THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA IS A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT FOR MALE STUDENTS: Florida Student Wins Against College that Suspended Him For ‘Correcting’ Girlfriend’s Apology Letter.

HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: The ‘Toxic Masculinity’ Trend Blames Boys For Being Born Male: Healthy masculinity is exactly what our young boys need to be taught right now, not embarrassment at the way they are made. Hatred and disdain for men and masculinity is practically a religion in some sectors of our society, and naturally some of that spills over onto boys.

IT’S NICE TO SEE BETSY DEVOS speaking out against academia’s hostile environment for conservative and libertarian students. Meanwhile, the commenters over at Inside Higher Ed immediately proceeded to prove her right.

UPDATE: And now, Inside Higher Ed has taken down the comments on the piece. Not exactly undercutting DeVos’s point there, either. . . .

ANOTHER UPDATE: And the comments are back, now. . . .

ASHE SCHOW: Double Jeopardy At Berkeley Law.

College campuses seem to be hostile environments for the rights of the accused. Now we’re starting to see professors denied due process the same way students often are are.

University of California Berkeley law professor Sujit Choudhry was accused of sexual harassment because when he showed support for his executive assistant, he would hug her and kiss her on the cheek.

This was unacceptable to her, so she reported him. A settlement was reached and Choudhry was punished. But when the school came under fire for the accusation — and UC President Janet Napolitano herself came under fire for mishandling sexual misconduct complaints — Choudhry was subjected to a new, second round of punishment and investigations.

Choudhry resigned in mid-March after the second investigation was launched. Had he not, he could have faced being fired.

If clever conspirators on the right set out to destroy higher education from within, they couldn’t do better than higher education is doing on its own.

RECENTLY LOOKED THROUGH MY ARCHIVES FOR “HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT.” Kind of interesting juxtapositions.

HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: Anti-GOP Professor Who Called Republicans ‘Old, Cheap and Racist’ in Michigan State Classroom Reinstated for Spring Semester.

HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: “A Campus Environment That Is Unwelcoming To Men.”

HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: In early Obama White House, female staffers felt frozen out. “The acknowledgment Monday by White House officials of discontent among high-level female staffers in the early days came even as Obama aides tried to paint the Suskind book as inaccurate.”

FEMINISTS SILENT ON CHARGES THAT Obama White House Is Hostile Environment For Women. Like the Black Caucus, I guess they’re holding their tongues. As they did under Clinton, of course.

IS THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT FOR WOMEN? Or is that just the grumbling of affirmative-action babies?

So… is there something sexist about the Obama administration? Seems like Suskind came up with a great angle for his book, but I’m skeptical. I think Obama may have been overenthusiastic about giving a lot of positions to women, and perhaps those women really weren’t as good as the men he surrounded himself with and really does need to rely on. In that case, he deserves credit for good judgment. But it is funny that he’s not more concerned about the optics. Perhaps he assumes that he is especially appealing to women constituents and he doesn’t need to do much to maintain that favor. It’s the men he’s in danger of losing. Time for another round of all-male, manly golf.

And maybe a beer summit with a Medal Of Honor winner. Oh, wait. . . .

GENDER STUDIES PROGRAMS: A hostile environment for men?

HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT: Microbes survive a year and a half in space.

HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT:

Women are so common in the upper ranks of the U.S. military these days that it’s no longer news when they break through another barrier. Unfortunately, the latest benchmark isn’t one to brag about: being booted as captain of a billion-dollar warship for “cruelty and maltreatment” of her 400-member crew. According to the Navy inspector general’s report that triggered her removal — and the accounts of officers who served with her — Captain Holly Graf was the closest thing the U.S. Navy had to a female Captain Bligh.

A Navy admiral stripped Graf of her command of the Japan-based guided missile cruiser U.S.S. Cowpens in January. The just-released IG report concludes that Graf “repeatedly verbally abused her crew and committed assault” and accuses her of using her position as commander of the Cowpens “for personal gain.”

Ugh.

DARTMOUTH: A hostile environment — for learning how to write well.