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A bachelor’s in three years? Colleges just got a green light to get in the game.
For decades, the four-year bachelor’s degree, with its requirement for 120 credits of classwork, has been the unquestioned standard.
Young American men face real challenges that demand urgent attention and thoughtful solutions that actually work. From skyrocketing mental health crises and declining college enrollment to digital addiction and social isolation, an entire generation of males is struggling to find their place in modern America. And it’s not just men who are hurting because of it. Women, their families, their communities, and their country all suffer as a result.
The Lafayette Company hosted the first-ever Symposium on Young American Men on November 3, 2025 to tackle these issues. The event convened lawmakers from both major political parties, health care experts, men’s organizations, policymakers, researchers, and education leaders to examine the scope of these critical social challenges and present evidence-based proposals to improve male well-being.
The full Symposium on Young American Men brings together leaders and experts to examine the urgent challenges facing young men today. Panelists explore rising mental‑health struggles, declining college enrollment, digital addiction, and social isolation, offering evidence‑based proposals to strengthen male well‑being.
The Campus Challenge: How Higher Education Can Better Serve Male Students Panel with Dr. Steve McGuire. The panel examines ways to address declining male enrollment and improve outcomes, including expanding single‑sex spaces, strengthening recruitment, and fostering campus cultures that support healthy masculinity.
For decades, the four-year bachelor’s degree, with its requirement for 120 credits of classwork, has been the unquestioned standard.
ACTA is pleased to launch a series of conversations with college students experiencing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Our first episode features Daniel Acosta-Rivas, rising senior at American University, and Erez Binyamin, who has just graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology.
In “Those Hidden College Fees,” Rochelle Sharpe correctly observes that the underlying reasons for the rising costs of college are not immediately clear to students and families, since institutions can easily divert funds from their original purpose. That points to another fundamental challenge to college affordability: the growth in administrative spending. A recent analysis by […]
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