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The field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is relatively a new field when compared with other fields. It was in the 1980s that corporate entities around the world started to generate increasing interest in CSR as we presently understand it. However, a search of the literature has revealed that scholars in the field have tended to concentrate more efforts on the CSR of profit seeking corporate entities. Unfortunately, this does not appear to be the case when it comes to the CSR of not-for-profit (NFP) corporate entities such as educational establishments (schools, colleges and universities), hospitals, the police, the armed forces, the fire services and other social entities which equally play important roles in modern economies. Do these not-for-profit organisations consider that they have some roles to play in CSR as it is perceived by corporate stakeholders in the 21st century? If they do, do they play these roles as effectively as they should? How do these entities’ stakeholders perceive the contributions they make to societies’ well-being? These and other pertinent questions are what this research study seeks to find answers to.The study looks at what UK’s institutions of higher education consider to be their corporate social responsibilities and how they have absorbed these responsibilities into what they do in order to discharge these responsibilities to local, national and international communities. The research notes that most institutions of higher education in the UK are conscious that they owe some responsibility to all their stakeholders and are striving to demonstrate this awareness in various ways. Most are signatories to some international declarations on sustainability in higher education. Keywords Social responsibility, Not-for-profit organisations, higher education institutions, environment, stakeholders, universities, UK, sustainability.

An empirical study of what institutions of higher education in the UK consider to be their corporate social responsibility