International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education: Volume 22 Issue 2

Characterization of solid wastes as a tool to implement waste management strategies in a university campus

Elaine Nolasco, Pedro Henrique Vieira Duraes, Júlia Pereira Gonçalves, Maria Cristina de Oliveira, Lucijane Monteiro de Abreu, Alexandre Nascimento de Almeida

Universities are an example of institutions that aggregate people around work/study who consume water, energy and produce waste daily in their activities, generating an impact on…

Pushing the boundaries: experience-based learning in early phases of graduate sustainability curricula

Jodie Birdman, Aaron Redman, Daniel J. Lang

This paper aims to investigate student experiences and the potential impact of experience-based learning (EBL) in the early phase of graduate sustainability programs through the…

Students’ attitude toward sustainability and humanitarian engineering education using project-based and international field learning pedagogies

Truc Thanh Ngo, Bradley Chase

Environmental sustainability and social contexts are becoming increasingly important concepts. The infusion of sustainability and humanitarian engineering (HE) into the academic…

Community needs and interests in university–community partnerships for sustainable development

Mark Groulx, Nadia Nowak, Kristin Levy, Annie Booth

This paper aims to examine the broad concept of university–community partnerships as it applies to creating sustainability initiatives. The benefits of university–community…

Inquiry in higher education for sustainable development: crossing disciplinary knowledge boundaries

Cecília Galvão, Cláudia Faria, Wanda Viegas, Amélia Branco, Luís Goulão

This paper aims to understand if a project work methodology proposed to students, based on an inquiry perspective and dealing with different dimensions of sustainable development…

Mapping the intervention of sustainable design studio using multidimensional scaling and pathfinder networks

Tolga Yilmaz, Engin Kapkin

The purpose of this paper is to investigate undergraduate industrial design students’ perception of sustainable design concepts and how their conceptualization evolves as a…

Collegiate athletics environmental sustainability efforts within STARS reporting

Jamee Pelcher, Brian P. McCullough, Sylvia Trendafilova

The purpose of this paper is to examine higher education institutions’ participation in association for the advancement of sustainability in higher education’s (AASHE’s) Green…

Open laboratories for social innovation: a strategy for research and innovation in education for peace and sustainable developmentSustainable development is an issue of high relevance for all countries, and universities play a fundamental role in promotin

Marcela Georgina Gómez Zermeño, Lorena Yadira Alemán de la Garza

Sustainable development is an issue of high relevance for all countries and universities play a fundamental role in promoting the participation of society members in achieving…

Sustainability governing entities in higher education throughout Chile

Claudia Mac-lean, Luis Santiago Vargas, Gonzalo Uribe, Cristian Aldea, Lorna Lares, Oscar Mercado

The purpose of this paper is to provide a panoramic and systematic view of 10 Sustainable Campus Network (SCN) universities’ internal entities in charge of the sustainability…

Critical analysis of engineering education focused on sustainability in supply chain management: an overview of Brazilian higher education institutions

Leonardo Keiti de Godoy Tominaga, Vitor William Batista Martins, Izabela Simon Rampasso, Rosley Anholon, Dirceu Silva, Jefferson Souza Pinto, Walter Leal Filho, Francisco Rodrigues Lima Junior

This paper aims to critically analyze the engineering education focused on sustainability in supply chain management, in courses offered by Brazilian higher education institutions.

Students as change agents for campus sustainability in Malaysian universities

Zeeda Fatimah Mohamad, Mohd Zufri Mamat, Muhamad Faisal Muhamad Noor

The notion of students as change agents have widely been used in the campus sustainability literature, but very little has been done to unpack what it really means in practice…

Pre-service English language teachers’ conceptions of sustainable development: a case from Turkish higher education context

Leyla Yılmaz Fındık, İlknur Bayram, Özlem Canaran

The purpose of this paper is to explore how sustainable development (SD) is conceptualized by pre-service English language teachers in Turkey and design a specialized course…