Colleges are super concentrated microcosms of patriarchal culture with the same patterns of discrimination and misogyny occurring within them as happens across every facet of society. What makes them uniquely dangerous is that they also frequently operate a university-based judicial system designed to bring as little disrepute to the business as possible.

Trinity College Dublin has announced that use of the term 'freshman' is to be phased out and be replaced with the gender-neutral term 'fresh'. In an email to all staff and students announcing the news today Vice-Provost Chris Morash and Students' Union President Kevin Keane say a proposal from the Equality Committee that "the title given to first and second year undergraduates students be changed from 'Freshman' to the gender-neutral term 'Fresh'" had been approved.

Across socioeconomic classes, women are increasingly enrolling and completing postsecondary education, while, even as opportunities for people without a college education shrink, men’s rates of graduation remain relatively stagnant. In 2015, the most recent year for which data is available, 72.5 percent of females who had recently graduated high school were enrolled in a two-year or four-year college, compared to 65.8 percent of men. That’s a big difference from 1967, when 57 percent of recent male high-school grads were in college, compared to 47.2 percent of women.

"Olin College, a prestigious engineering college in Needham, is proud to be an outlier: Half its students are women. The school, which also prides itself on offering classes that focus on project-based learning, recently sought to redesign a central part of its campus — and in doing so, sought perspectives from its female students."

"People want to support capital projects or they want to give to football or men's basketball. But drawing attention to these female sports is really great. ... There have been gifts to that [soccer] endowment program, but they've never had a family step forward and fully establish an endowment toward the team."

Parents of all boys are more likely to have money saved for college than parents of all girls, according to a new survey from T. Rowe Price, an asset-management company. Some 50% of parents who have only boys have money saved for their kids’ college, compared with just 39% of parents who have only girls, it found.