May 21, 2021
After Madison Campbell was sexually assaulted, she had an overwhelming feeling of not wanting to be touched by anyone, she remembers.
She didn’t want to tell her friends what happened, she didn’t want to talk to the police, she didn’t want to leave her dorm room ever again. In the hours that followed the crime, which occurred while she attended a study abroad program at the University of Edinburgh in 2016, she walked to a nearby pharmacy to buy black dye for her blond hair, and spend the following days and weeks rewatching Westworld.
Years later, it wasn’t just the assault that haunted her it was the fact that she had no evidence it ever happened. “I had no text messages, no photos saved. I didn’t save my clothes. I didn’t save anything. And so it would have been my word against his,” she told Quartz. “It’s really disgusting to me that I didn’t feel like I can get any sort of justice because I had I had nothing to prove that it happened.”
May 19, 2021
In most economic downturns in the US , enrollment in community college goes up. But the reverse has happened during the pandemic.
Spring enrollment in two-year associate degree and in shorter certificate programs dropped year-over-year 10.9% and 7.4%, respectively, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Meanwhile, enrollment in bachelor’s degree programs, which are typically four years, dropped 2%. Even as the pandemic abates, community colleges still continue to report declines.
Will Biden’s bill efforts reverse the decline?
Under the $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, Biden had proposed two years of free tuition at community college, and not at four-year degree schools, despite pressure from the left to make college free for all. The bill proposes investing $109 billion for two-year colleges, $62 billion to strengthen retention and completion efforts, and $39 billion for two free years at minority-serving institutio