The pressure to stay competitive and, at minimum, remain open means career centers are being forced to raise money through development initiatives, which changes their focus and creates situations which might challenge career center standards of conduct and employers’ ethics. This presentation will present the results of a ten-year study (NACE Journal, in press) aimed at defining what it means for career center and corporate personnel to engage in an “ethical” partnership, from a pre- and post-Enron and a pre- and post- Sarbanes Oxley viewpoint. The program will also investigate the implications for both parties when well-intended plans for synergy and symbiosis are superseded by career services’ survival needs. Participants will be able to debate and discuss such topics as 1) Are employers “expecting recruitment favors” in return for their donation/investment; 2) Would career center employees become less ethical if employers “showered them with money and gifts”?; 3) The implications of corporate influence across campus; 4) Implications of corporate spending on career center budgets; and 5) Methods of developing ethical partnerships.