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The article presents a report from the Committee on Freedom of Research and Teaching, a committee of American Sociological Association. The Committee's chairman reviewed this year an advance draft of proposed guidelines to be established by Council for the Committee. A set of guidelines was accepted by Council on November 15, 1970, and published in February, 1971 issue of the journal "The American Sociologist." The main thrust of the guidelines is to encourage the Committee to rely upon American Association of University Professors and other agencies for major tasks of mediating, adjudicating, arbitrating, or imposing sanctions, while concentrating its own efforts upon identifying and referring cases of alleged infringements of freedom of research and teaching and recommending appropriate actions to Council. Individuals and research organizations in universities have provided useful information on problems of interest to the Committee. Particularly helpful was a statement drafted by sociologists at the University of Minnesota, Minnesota, on the use of human subjects in research by social scientists.