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Direct linkDerek Hall – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the extent and characteristics of Canadian university reporting of and policy regarding greenhouse gas emissions from air travel. It identifies current approaches' details and limits and recommends improvements. Design/methodology/approach: The study developed questions and considerations for analysing reporting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Travel, Air Transportation
Gale M. Sinatra; Daniel A. Mazmanian; Michael Dalrymple; Mahta Moghaddam – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
Universities and colleges have been slow to take climate-related action considering their unique dual roles of supporting climate change research and education of the generation who will be most confronted with managing this crisis. In addition to legacy programs which have focused on climate issues for decades, more recently there have been…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Higher Education, Climate, College Role
Eby, Robert F.; Rangarajan, Nandhini – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to describe the different elements included in campus sustainability plans (CSPs) in colleges and universities across the USA. Design/methodology/approach: It examines the contents and specific areas of emphasis of 155 CSPs using a document analysis approach. It determines the types and characteristics of the institutions…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Educational Planning, Campuses, Colleges
Verena Berger; David Koch – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Educational institutions have a special social responsibility to initiate processes of sustainability transformation in society, nevertheless, activities that effectively address students as well as employees are rather moderate. To initiate change alongside strategic and political decisions, this paper aims to present findings of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Conservation (Environment), Gamification
Doaa Aly; Muath Abdelqader; Tamer K. Darwish; Anna Toporkiewicz; Ali Radwan – Higher Education Quarterly, 2024
We explored the relationship between board characteristics and sustainability of higher education institutions in the United Kingdom (UK). We analysed 153 UK universities using data for the year 2019. Our analysis revealed that board size, the number of students on the board, and the number of academic members on the board were found to have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governing Boards, Universities, Student Participation
Jun-hua Zhu; Rui Yang – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Following the West, China exhibits a proactive attitude and conservative actions to developing entrepreneurial universities. This article deconstructs such a paradoxical approach by analysing the scholarly literature, policy discourses, and empirical data and their various perceptions of entrepreneurial universities in the Greater Bay Area (GBA).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Universities, Educational Policy
Abbey Lesniewski – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Universities are engaging with communities on projects for many reasons, including funding, research, ecosystem building, technology advancement, and others. There is a variety of research on the university's engagement with the community and how to be effective. However, the research on what the community needs for a university-community…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Small Businesses, Entrepreneurship
Robinson, John; Alhakim, Andi Darell; Ma, Grace; Alam, Monisha; Brando, Fernanda da Rocha; Braune, Manfred; Brown, Michelle; Côté, Nicolas; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano; Garza, Ana Karen; Gorman, David; Hajer, Maarten; Madden, John; Melnick, Rob; Metras, John; Newman, Julie; Patel, Rutu; Raven, Rob; Sergienko, Kenneth; Smith, Victoria; Tariq, Hoor; van der Lem, Lysanne; Wong, Christina Nga Jing; Wiek, Arnim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Governance, Barriers, Universities
Download full textSara Abdulla Al-Maadeed; Abdurahman J. Yesuf – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: Entrepreneurial universities are vital for economic development and innovation, yet securing sustainable funding beyond traditional sources is a critical challenge. This study addresses the need to identify and understand diverse financing mechanisms employed by these universities to foster their entrepreneurial activities. The…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Universities, Educational Trends, Educational Practices
Sharon Stein – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
This article reflects on recent calls for universities to deepen their commitments to sustainability in the face of climate change. It suggests that because climate change is a "wicked problem" that is hyper-complex, lacks clear solutions, and affects multiple communities in different ways, universities are unlikely to achieve consensus…
Descriptors: Climate, Sustainability, Colonialism, College Role
Shallegra Moye – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2024
University partnerships with public schools are an innovative opportunity to marry research and practice. One such endeavor was the Heinz Fellows Program at the Center for Urban Education in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. The Heinz Fellows Program existed at the intersection of community engagement, public school praxis,…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Universities, Public Schools
Yazan Khalid Abed-Allah Migdadi – Journal of Education for Business, 2024
The aim of this article was to identify the embedded Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) in undergraduate business sustainability programs curricula. A purposive sample of 23 programs was analyzed. The sources of data were the secondary data published by the universities about the program curricula, together with the course descriptions.…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Business Administration Education, Alignment (Education), Sustainable Development
Ramadhan, Arief; Hidayanto, Achmad Nizar; Salsabila, Ghina Almira; Wulandari, Intan; Jaury, Jessica Alexia; Anjani, Nadia Nabila – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
E-Learning has been massively used in higher education, one of which is in Universitas Indonesia. The e-learning system in Universitas Indonesia is called Student Centered E-Learning Environment Universitas Indonesia (SCELE UI). This research determines the effect of usability on the intention to use SCELE UI in a sustainable way. The Expectation…
Descriptors: Usability, Electronic Learning, Intention, Sustainability
Jaafar, Johanna Abdullah; Latiff, Ahmed Razman Abdul; Daud, Zaidi Mat; Osman, Mohammad Noor Hisham – Higher Education Policy, 2023
Financial sustainability had become a primary concern among public universities worldwide due to the declining trend of government's funding and the unceasing growth in higher education cost. Hence, public universities are forced to generate alternative income sources. Resource dependency theory asserts that revenue diversification is a prudent…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Universities, Educational Finance, Income
Kinchin, Ian M. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
The shift towards an ecological university may be the key to achieving greater levels of social justice within higher education. This assumes that we could change the root metaphor of higher education--away from the current industrial model that is infused with neoliberal ideology and towards a more sustainable ecological model. This change…
Descriptors: Ecology, Universities, Social Justice, Neoliberalism
