The issue of sexual assault on college campuses has received a great deal of public attention in recent months. But a new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics finds that the problem is even more widespread among women of college age who are not enrolled in higher education. The data shows that during the 1995-to-2013 period, an average of 7.6 of every 1,000 women ages 18 to 24 who were not enrolled in college were raped in a particular year. For college students, a average of 6.1 of every 1,000 young women were raped in a particular year. For women ages 18 to 24, there were more than twice as many victims of rape among nonstudents than students.
The report also found that only 20 percent of women enrolled in college who were raped reported the crime to police. For nonstudents, 32 percent reported the crime to police. Only 16 percent of college women who had been raped received assistance from a victim service agency, compared to 18 percent of nonstudents who were raped.
The report, Rape and Sexual Assault Victimization Among College-Age Females, 1995–2013, may be downloaded by clicking here.
Although it was initially founded as school for women, the University of Montevallo has never had a woman president. Now the university has reached a historic milestone and selected selected Michelle R. Johnston to serve as its next president.
The women who are taking on new leadership roles with professional academic organizations are Yasmeen Shorish of James Madison University in Virginia, Elena Carbone of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shelley Lusetti of New Mexico State University, Oona Hathaway of Yale Law School, and Keisha Blain of Brown University.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a national program run by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Dr. Yelick, a computer scientist and longtime UC Berkeley faculty member, will become the laboratory's next director on July 1.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.