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Only 51.6% of adults over 25 have a degree or other training beyond high school — the lowest of any Midwestern state. The number of men in particular who are going to college has been falling steadily, with 35% more Michigan women earning a degree or certificate than men.
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Advertising, training fairs, free tuition: How Michigan is trying to get more men into college • Michigan Advance Seven years ago, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer launched an effort to boost the proportion of adult state residents with education past high school to 60 percent by 2030. In 2021, she launched Michigan Reconnect to help residents 25 and older cover the cost of community college tuition. But the numb...

"The 43 million Americans with some college and no credential are not failures. They are living evidence of an infrastructure never designed to see them through. They enrolled during a moment of hope and left during a moment of hardship. Their outcomes reflect systems built for a traditional student population that no longer represents the majority of today’s learners."

OPINION: The real college crisis isn’t enrollment. It’s completion, and it’s time to start asking why America has spent a decade wringing its hands over who isn’t showing up to college, but not enough time wondering why so many who do never make it out