Taking Women Seriously: Lessons and Legacies for Educating the Majority (American Council on Education Oryx Press Series on Higher Education)

This is the middle point of a series of articles on President Obama's Higher Education Agenda. From early February, I mentioned that I will publish a series of articles to study the eight major elements of his higher education plan and then try to put them together. In the first half of the "Super" series, I reviewed the president's dream of achieving expansion of higher education. In Part 2 I looked up his recommendation on the use of price controls. In the third part, at the national university, I tracked his evolving theme, sending all American high school graduates to formal higher education for at least a year. In the fourth part, "better citizen", I studied some of Mr. Obama 's ways to utilize the university to promote the progressive value of the student.

As early as 1975, more than one fifth (22%) of university students majored in education. According to the US Census Bureau, compiled by a professional website Zippia, by 2015, only one in 10 Americans is registered in higher education, and their education is used for education. A shift from education to women is particularly noteworthy. In the past 40 years, the proportion of female college students majoring in education fell from 32% to 11%. As the interest in the degree decreases, more and more students begin to pursue courses of science, art, communication, and computer science.