Robin Barrow is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada.

• Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Part I The Idea of a University: What is liberal education?, Leo Strauss; The idea of a university, Michael Oakeshott; The idea of a university in Newman, Oakeshott and Strauss, Timothy Fuller,; The academic ethic, Edward Shils; The politicization of the university and its consequences, Jean Bethke Elshstain; . Part II Contemporary Concerns: On academic delinquency, Theodore Roszak; The prospects for the university, John Searle; Academic corruption, John Kekes; Professional ethics, day by day, Wendy Wassyng Roworth; Dishonesty in the academy, Robert Hauptman; The morphing of the American academic profession, Martin Finkelstein. Part III The University and Business: Ethical issues at the university-industry interface: a way forward?, G.R. Evans and D.E. Packham; This little student went to market, David L. Kirp and Jeffrey T. Holman; The true scholar, Robert N. Bellah; The kept university, Eyal Press and Jennifer Washburn; Inter-what? Banquo's Ghost at the electronic banquet, Mario Petrucci . Part IV The Professor: Power, pretense, and piggybacking: some ethical issues in teaching, Everett K. Wilson; Ethics in the academic profession: a Socratic view, Elias Baumgarten; A profile of the ethical professor: student views, Tara L. Kuther; My profession and its duties, George Sher; Professorial ethics, Michael Scriven; Autonomy and the very limited role of advocacy in the classroom, Joel J. Kupperman; A manifesto of the 21st century academic proletariat in North America, Douglas Mann and Heidi Nelson Hochenedel Part V Administration: Professional values and the allure of the market, Sheila Slaughter; The moral dimensions of academic administration, Rudolf H. Weingartner; Brave new university, Jeffrey Williams; Ethics, academic freedom and academic tenure, Richard T. de George; Is peer review overrated?, David Shatz Part VI Professors and Students: Political correctness as an academic discipline, Heinz-Joachim Klatt; Sexual harassmen

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