In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors.

In The Kindness of Strangers, Deni Elliott examines ethically questionable situations that have arisen in response to institutional dependency on external benefactors. Major concerns analyzed include: The increased professionalism of fundraising and of donating, an increased willingness of institutions to cater to the demands of donors, creation of dual roles for faculty, students and staff when they are fundraisers and donors in addition to playing their primary roles in higher education, business-university research partnerships that put business values in conflict of academic values and mission, commercialization of student athletics, and endowment use and investment. Supplemented by a series of carefully selected articles, The Kindness of Strangers needs to be read by anyone who is concerned by higher education's increasing dependency on corporate and individual donors.

Part 1 Part I
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 The New Landscape of Higher Education Funding
Chapter 4 Analyzing Solicitation, Gifts and Donor Requests
Chapter 5 The Business of Giving and Getting
Chapter 6 What Donors Want
Chapter 7 What Corporations Buy
Chapter 8 Recipients as Givers
Chapter 9 Conclusion
Part 10 Part II: Selected Readings
Chapter 11 Conceptions of Ethics in Educational Administration
Chapter 12 The Ethics and Values of Fund Raising
Chapter 13 Toward a Theory of Fund Raising in Higher Education
Chapter 14 Justice and Charity
Chapter 15 Against Philanthropy: Individual and Corporate
Chapter 16 CASE Code of Ethics
Chapter 17 CASE Donor's Bill of Rights