By Colleen Flaherty. Some students who worked in a University of Calgary lab that closed abruptly in March have accused its faculty of mismanagement and animal cruelty, according to Canada's CBC News. The unnamed students reportedly said that on multiple occasions lab rats woke up in the middle of medical procedures crying out in pain due to insufficient anesthesia. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. AAUP opposes efforts in some states to get academics to disavow movement regarding Israel. Group also opposes recent government action against American pro-BDS scholar. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. A faculty committee at the University of Kentucky says there’s not enough evidence to terminate a professor of journalism who required his students to buy his textbook, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. Michael Kimmel, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and an internationally known expert on masculinity, asked the American Sociological Association to delay presenting him with a major award for six months, so that still-anonymous allegations of sexual harassment against him can be vetted, he said last week. More...

By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Michigan’s non-tenure-track faculty union is fighting the termination of a longtime senior lecturer in English at the Ann Arbor campus, MLive reported. More...