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Direct linkIryna Kushnir; Elizabeth Agbor Eta; Marcellus Forh Mbah; Charlotte-Rose Kennedy – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to ask how the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has orchestrated a sustainable development (SD) agenda in its international policy since 2020. Design/methodology/approach: By drawing on theoretical ideas around policy orchestration as a key UN governing strategy and applying them to the analysis of the progression of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, International Organizations
Dev Raj Adhikari; Prakash Shrestha – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore and analyze the context and concept of higher education for sustainable development (HESD) in Nepalese higher educational institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach: The research gathers facts and information both from primary and secondary sources. Five open-ended questions were developed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, College Administration, Organizational Change
Manuel Vallée – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to assess the spread of environmental literacy graduation requirements at public universities in the USA, and to highlight factors that mediate the adoption of this curriculum innovation. Design/methodology/approach: The author analyzed the undergraduate general education curriculum requirements at all 549 public…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Higher Education, Barriers, Graduation Requirements
Jeffrey Ben Matu; Angelica Perez-Johnston – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the significance of incorporating diverse lived experiences and identities through culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) in promoting sustainability, cultural diversity and the integration of various perspectives and worldviews rooted in identity and lived experience in sustainability education at…
Descriptors: Experience, Self Concept, Diversity, Cultural Awareness
Moura-Leite, Rosamaria Cox; Lopes, José Carlos de Jesus; Yamazaki, Carolina – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to analyze the situation of Federal Universities (FUs) regarding compliance with the Sustainable Logistics Management Plan (PLS) Normative Instruction (NI) 10/2012, the adoption of which is compulsory for all agencies and entities of direct, autarchic and foundational public administration and dependent state-owned…
Descriptors: Universities, Compliance (Legal), Sustainability, Public Colleges
Azizi, Leyla – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: The implementation of sustainability-related policies at universities has been marked by a greater sense of urgency in recent years. Despite this emerging trend, it is still unclear which leadership processes, at which levels and which theoretical concepts encourage sustainable transitions within universities. Design/methodology/approach:…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Educational Policy, Leadership, Leadership Styles
Ghasemy, Majid; Elwood, James A.; Scott, Geoffrey – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Given the increased emphasis on embedding the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) in the curriculum, research, engagement activities and operations of higher education institutions, this comparative study aims to replicate an earlier international study of Turnaround Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Gender Differences
Fauzi, Muhammad Ashraf; Abdul Rahman, Abdul Rahimi; Lee, Chia Kuang – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to provide the current and future state of United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the higher education institutions (HEIs). Since the SDGs' proliferation, HEIs have played a crucial part in meeting the goals. Despite the central role of HEIs in accomplishing the SDGs, there has been little attention in…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Objectives
Daú, Gláucya; Scavarda, Annibal; Rosa Alves, Maria Teresa; Santa, Ricardo; Ferrer, Mario – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Population worldwide has experienced several challenges related to sustainable development, such as scarcity of natural resource, unsustainable consumption, poverty, injustice, violence, social inequality and natural disaster (including floods, tsunami and landslide). These issues interfere in sustainable development and target to achieve…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Opportunities, Objectives, Foreign Countries
Gomes Junior, José Carmino; Dalila Corbari, Sandra; Kniess, Cláudia Terezinha; Nogueira da Silva, Gérsica Moraes; Piontkewicz, Simone Caroline; de Souza Melo, Maiara; Silveira Carbone, Amanda; Mantovaneli, Oklinger, Jr.; Martins Sobral, Maria do Carmo; Philippi Junior, Arlindo; Fernandez, Felipe; de Aguiar Dutra, Ana Regina; Birch, Robert Samuel; Guerra, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade; Sampaio, Carlos Alberto Cioce – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This paper aim to propose a methodological mapping approach for the evaluation of dissertations and theses of graduate programs in the area of environmental sciences in Brazil in relation to the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). Design/methodology/approach: The research is characterized as exploratory with qualitative/quantitative…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Well Being, Correlation
Kohl, Katrin; Hopkins, Charles; Barth, Matthias; Michelsen, Gerd; Dlouhá, Jana; Razak, Dzulkifli Abdul; Abidin Bin Sanusi, Zainal; Toman, Isabel – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Higher education and its leadership are not yet using their potential impact for a sustainable future. This paper aims to focus on UN developments and the long history of university involvement in sustainability might create more interest and understanding that sustainably oriented universities are actually possible and a much stronger…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Institutional Advancement, Educational History
Aras, Guler; Kutlu Furtuna, Ozlem; Hacioglu Kazak, Evrim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to shed light on the association between stakeholders' materiality and the sustainable development goals (SDGs), highlighting how higher education institutions (HEIs) can pursue sustainable development and provide a holistic perspective by mapping material issues. This paper provides a clear understanding of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Stakeholders, Sustainable Development, Higher Education
Galleli, Barbara; Teles, Noah Emanuel Brito; Freitas-Martins, Mateus Santos; Semprebon, Elder; Hourneaux Junior, Flavio – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to analyse the insertion of Sustainability in Management undergraduate courses in Brazilian higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach: Through content analysis, the authors have mapped the curricular grids of the Management courses simultaneously best classified in an independent national ranking…
Descriptors: Management Development, Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Undergraduate Students
Pedro, Eugénia de Matos; Leitão, João; Alves, Helena – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to analyse the efficiency of public higher education institutions (HEIs) through teaching and learning (T&L), research and technology (R&T) and social responsibility (SR) activities. It also aims to assess the external factors influencing the efficiency of T&L, R&T and SR, and influence of this efficiency…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis, State Universities
Bautista-Puig, Núria; Orduña-Malea, Enrique; Perez-Esparrells, Carmen – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to analyse and evaluate the methodology followed by the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings (THE-IR), as well as the coverage obtained and the data offered by this ranking, to determine if its methodology reflects the degree of sustainability of universities, and whether their results are accurate enough to be used as a…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Reputation, Institutional Characteristics
