International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education: Volume 24 Issue 3

Research on sustainability leadership in higher education: a scoping review

Pwint Nee Aung, Philip Hallinger

Despite the centrality of leadership to the successful transformation of universities toward sustainability, the literature on the role and practices of sustainability leadership…

Students leading students: a qualitative study exploring a student-led model for engagement with the sustainable development goals

Bernice Lee, Katherine Liu, Tyler Samuel Warnock, Minji Olivia Kim, Sarah Skett

Higher education institutions (HEI) play a critical role in developing student leaders equipped with the skills and knowledge needed to mobilize societal changes that the United…

Sustainability governance toward an organizational sustainability culture at German higher education institutions

Nicolas Roos, Remmer Sassen, Edeltraud Guenther

Higher education institutions, as influential social institutions, play an important role in promoting social responsibility and sustainable practices. However, approaches to…

Trends in research: carbon footprint reduction in universities as a way to achieve a green campus

Liziane Araújo da Silva, Ana Regina de Aguiar Dutra, Thiago Coelho Soares, Robert Samuel Birch, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra

Reducing our carbon footprint (CF) or decarbonizing is a sustainable development goal. Although there has been an increase in research on this topic, little is known about the…

A comparative study on turnaround leadership in higher education and the successful implementation of the UN’s sustainable development goals

Majid Ghasemy, James A. Elwood, Geoffrey Scott

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…

A systematic bibliometric review of the United Nation’s SDGS: which are the most related to higher education institutions?

Muhammad Ashraf Fauzi, Abdul Rahimi Abdul Rahman, Chia Kuang Lee

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’…

College students are pro-environment but lack sustainability knowledge: a study at a mid-size Midwestern US university

Dawn Christina Null, Jebaraj Asirvatham

The purpose of this study is to examine the differences in sustainability knowledge, behaviors and attitudes among college students and to estimate the influence of knowledge of…

Awareness on energy conservation: a case study of first-year undergraduate students in Malaysia

Adi Ainurzaman Jamaludin, Nurul Emy Idayu Zulkifli, Saherra Bharin, Rohana Jani, Mohd Istajib Mokhtar, Sarina Abdul Halim-Lim, Wan Abd Al Qadr Imad Wan-Mohtar, Zul Ilham

This paper aims to evaluate the awareness level of university students on energy conservation by focusing on their knowledge, attitude and practice. Energy awareness is a feasible…

Incorporating collaborative learning in teacher education to foster self-efficacy to implement environmental citizenship: an action research

Dafna Gan, Iris Alkaher, Tamar Segal

Engaging students in environmental citizenship to promote education for sustainability (EfS) as an explicit goal of academic courses is not common, notwithstanding wide consensus…

Pro-environmental awareness of university students – assessment through sustainability literacy test

Loveth Daisy Aikowe, Jana Mazancova

This study aims to assess the current knowledge and awareness of environmental and sustainable development of Nigerian students by investigating the influence of their…

The role of universities in the inclusion of refugees in higher education and in society from the perspective of the SDGS

Carla Patricia Finatto, Ana Regina Aguiar Dutra, Camilla Gomes da Silva, Nei Antonio Nunes, José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra

The purpose of this paper aims to discuss the outreach strategies of higher education institutions (HEIs) to promote the inclusion of refugees, focusing on two case studies of…