First, career centers must fully appreciate the interplay of their stakeholder obligations. The professional must safeguard the student's rights, provide for the richest educational experience possible, and, in general, create an environment that is conducive to the student's growth. Outside considerations, such as the feelings and prerogatives of wealthy alumni, should never enter into operational decisions or policy interpretation. Placing the needs of a wealthy benefactor over that of the student is an abhorrent conflict of interest. The reality is, however, that career centers have multiple stakeholders with various needs and expectations.
Students are the primary stakeholders, but the university is a stakeholder, too.
While placing institutional financial needs above those of an individual student may be wrong, the career center cannot ignore the expectations of its employer, the university. The career center cannot categorically declare that it is above or free from financially driven institutional expectations. There is the bigger picture, and the career center cannot simply decide to remove itself from within that framework. This does not mean, however, that career centers must simply give in to the increasingly voracious financial appetite of the university. Instead, they must attempt, as best they can, to leverage their perceived importance to employers.