503. What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men?

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

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Educators and economists tell us all the reasons college enrollment has been dropping, especially for men, and how to stop the bleeding. (Part 4 of “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)

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0:00.0	In 2013, the Lewis College of Business in Detroit shut down and put itself up for sale.
0:10.7	The asking price was $3.2 million.
0:13.5	$3.2 million is not very much for a whole college.
0:17.8	That's what the basketball coach at the nearby University of Michigan makes in one year.
0:22.6	But apparently that's all the Lewis College of Business was worth.
0:26.7	It was a small private school, the first and only historically black college or university
0:32.3	in Michigan.
0:33.3	HBCUs have been getting more attention lately, but again this was 2013.
0:39.7	The funding wasn't as supportive for HBCUs as it's been in the last few years.
0:46.7	And this was a smaller school, so it received a smaller piece of the pie.
0:51.2	That is D-Wayne Edwards.
0:52.7	She and his family recently moved to Detroit.
0:55.7	As we'll hear today, he took a personal interest in the history of the Lewis College of Business.
1:01.4	He tells us it was founded in 1928 in Indianapolis by Violet Lewis.
1:07.6	She was one of three black women to found an HBCU.
1:11.3	One of three, right?
1:12.3	I didn't know about her.
1:13.3	I found her love at her and her story.
1:15.4	She started the school on a $50 loan and she borrowed typewriters to teach black women
1:21.3	the skills to work in corporate offices because we weren't allowed to do that at that time.
1:26.6	Relocating the college from Indianapolis to Detroit had worked out well.
1:30.9	By the middle of the 20th century, the auto industry was massive.
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