This book provides a history of the U.S. tradition of academic freedom, peer review, and shared governance in higher education as a background to a discussion of academic ethics. The book also contains a selection of ethical problems for peer discussion. The chapters are: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "The American Academic Profession: The Tradition of Academic Freedom and Shared Governance"; (3) "Problems on the Duties of Individual Professors"; (4) "Problems on the Rights of Academic Freedom for Individual Professors"; (5) "Problems on the Duties of the Faculty as a Collegial Body"; (6) "Problems on the Rights of the Faculty in Shared Governance"; and (7) "Problems on the Rights of Academic Freedom for Students." Eight appendixes contain a summary of principles of professional conduct and statements of principles of various organizations. (Contains 5 diagrams, 3 tables, and 68 references.) (SLD)