That article might be survivor bias. The percentage of males getting a college degree is going up, not down. It is just girls have gone up faster. We may not be failing boys. It might be more jobs that don't require college (military, construction, fire) are more attractive to males than females. There is a chart in the story below, as of 2020 the percentage of males getting a college degree is at an all-time high.
In an impressive increase from years past, 39 percent of women in the United States had completed four years or more of college in 2022.
www.statista.com
It seems this is true for enrollments as well:
Between 2000 and 2018, overall college enrollment rates increased for both 18- to 24-year-old males (from 33 to 38 percent) and females (from 38 to 44 percent). Among males, college enrollment rates were higher in 2018 than in 2000 for those who were White (39 vs. 36 percent), Black (33 vs. 25 percent), and Hispanic (32 vs. 18 percent). Among females, college enrollment rates were also higher in 2018 than in 2000 for those who were White (45 vs. 41 percent) and Hispanic (40 vs. 25 percent). The rate in 2018 was not measurably different from the rate in 2000 for females who were Black.
If more males are enrolling in college every year, and more males are graduating every year, the questions might be different than if there were fewer.