TY - CHAP AB - Abstract This chapter considers how higher education has enticed and interacted with corporations. This chapter explores how higher education behaves, in the aggregate, with a set of external partners, including businesses. It concludes with a discussion of how higher education should behave, given its external partners, in the modern context in which it finds itself. Discussion topics in this chapter include expectations of external partners; tactics to attract and retain business engagement and support; and internal organization by higher education to address corporate relations, ethics, and effective strategic planning. The Network of Academic Corporate Relations Officers' (NACRO) ideas and models are discussed. A set of guiding principles focused on Strategic Corporate Alliances by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is highlighted. SN - 978-1-78754-656-1, 978-1-78754-655-4/ DO - 10.1108/978-1-78754-655-420191008 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78754-655-420191008 AU - Clevenger Morgan R. AU - MacGregor Cynthia J. AU - Ryan C.J. AU - Clevenger Morgan R. AU - MacGregor Cynthia J. PY - 2019 Y1 - 2019/01/01 TI - How Higher Education Thinks and Behaves T2 - Business and Corporation Engagement with Higher Education PB - Emerald Publishing Limited SP - 125 EP - 149 Y2 - 2024/04/23 ER -