Should There Be an Academic Code of Ethics
For the past four years a number of colleagues and I, together with the assistance of well over forty consultants, have been examining the state of the teaching of ethics in American higher education. We have been attempting to assess the extent of the teaching of ethics, both at the undergraduate and professional school level, and also to analyze the quality and rigor of that teaching. At the least, it is fair to say that there has been a considerable growth of interest in the teaching of ethics in recent years, particularly at the professional school level, but also in undergraduate programs as well. A major characteristic of this trend has been a focus upon what we have called "applied ethics"-that is, upon providing students with those skills necessary to analyze and resolve specific moral dilemmas, whether personal or professional. A number of reasons seem to account for this new interest in the