Walmart has eliminated college degrees as a requirement for hundreds of its corporate roles. The retail giant said last week that it would get rid of ‘unnecessary barriers’ that prevent career advancement, and that job applicants would start seeing updated job descriptions next year. The move is part of a wider trend in the US jobs […]

Four students and another person were wounded when gunfire erupted outside a crowded homecoming event at Morgan State University in Baltimore, police said, sending students on a dash for cover and a SWAT team into a dorm to hunt for suspects as the nation’s gun violence epidemic struck yet another American campus. Read more from CNN.

A group of professors at Vassar, the historic US women’s college in New York, tried for years to internally resolve an issue of being paid less than their male counterparts but now they have finally resorted to legal action, a lawyer for the group said. Vassar has been hit with a federal lawsuit brought by five senior female […]

Among the questions Niche asks students is to report on their own personal political preferences and their perceptions of the political leanings of other students on campus. No standard definition of “conservative” is given in the survey. Sample sizes for each school range from hundreds to thousands. While Liberty University is closely associated with the […]