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Designing and Implementing a Pan-University commitment to Sustainability
Rob Melnick, Executive Dean of the Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS) at Arizona State University (ASU), explains how GIOS brings together faculty leaders from multiple disciplines to train the next generation of sustainability leaders, practitioners, and entrepreneurs. Its research...
Universities and Human Rights
Universities have often been focal points in the defence of human rights. In this issue, we give examples of universities that have acted in response to or have stood up to denounce human rights abuses during conflicts or dictatorships in their countries.
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their relevance to higher education in Kosovo
Jehona Serhati of the University of Kassel, analyzes the mutual interdependence between higher education and the MDG’s in Kosovo. Analyzing the current situation of the MDG’s in that country, the author makes a call to the government for further involving the University of Prishtina as a...
Ecological Footprint and Carbon Footprint as an environmental indicator for universities. Case of study: Polytechnic University of Valencia
The study presented in this paper evaluates the capacity of Ecological Footprint (EF) as an environmental indicator for universities and its suitability to provide useful and most relevant information to the environmental management system (EMS). The study is focus on Polytechnic University of...
Joint action to improve the impact of university development cooperation: Catalan universities promote an University Development Cooperation Plan
In this article Josep Vilalta and Nadja Gmelch of the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP) talk about the “Plan for University Cooperation for Development 2011 – 2015 (UDC Plan)” and its fundamental role in enhancing the effectiveness, impact and quality of university development...
Sustanaible Management of Wastes
The Autonomous Morelos State University (UAEM for its acronym in Spanish), aware of the environmental and socioeconomic impact that its activities may cause, has assumed its responsibility on the environmental commitment. With the institutionalization of the University Environmental Management...
Fostering the Renewal of Learning and Teaching in the Field of Aboriginal Issues: DIALOG’s Nomadic University
The Nomadic University is an innovative training program created in 2007 by the DIALOG network - Research and knowledge network relating to Aboriginal Peoples. It is one of our knowledge mobilization initiatives developed over the years to encourage the sharing of knowledge, skills and learning...
Environmental Sciences Graduate Multidisciplinary Course: A Collaborative, Interdisciplinary, Socially Committed Project for Regional Sustainability
The Environmental Sciences Graduate Multidisciplinary Course (MSc & DSc), includes research and formation in five areas: Environmental Assessment; Pollution Prevention and Control; Natural Renewable Resources Management; Environmental Health; and Environmental Management and Policies; in order...
Innovative teacher training in remote Australian Indigenous communities: A sustainable staffing model
In this article Wendy Giles, Debbie Prescott and David Rhodes from Charles Darwin University explain how they are delivering the Bachelor of Teaching and Learning, to Indigenous students by sending lecturers out each week to five remote communities in the Northern Territory in Australia.
Special Course on Environmental Rehabilitation in Asia
Rapid economic growth in Asia strongly affects the ecosystem and has engendered severe environmental problems. To recover from that damage and to realize a sustainable society, environmental experts of great activity are needed. The Graduate School of Environmental Science at Okayama University...
The Challenges of Higher Education in the 21st Century
Our imperfect world is advancing relentlessly towards uncertain future scenarios, and we must try to redirect it towards sustainability, that is, towards a new way of doing things in order to improve our environment while at the same time achieving justice, social equality and economic stability...
Study Programme Sustainable Development. A Cross-Cutting Agenda for Bachelor Students
The issue Sustainability is getting more relevant in many professional contexts, it diffuses into various societal systems and is integrated increasingly into several careers. To handle and permeating complex issues such as Sustainability, their associate uncertainties and be aware of interlinkages...
Knowledge for The World We Want: The Emergence of the Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research (GACER)
Living and Learning Sustainability in Higher Education: A Research Study on Indicators of Social Learning
Higher education institutions not only provide research and policy in sustainability, but also create and facilitate environments for students and staff to develop their understanding and responses to sustainability. Sustainability learning opportunities in higher education are often thought to...
Process Model of Intercultural Competence
The author presents a framework of intercultural competence, based on a grounded-research approach. This framework, has found resonance in different cultural contexts, and can be used to guide curriculum and assessment as well as to raise questions for further research and discussion.

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Articles

Designing and Implementing a Pan-University commitment to Sustainability

Universities and Human Rights

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their relevance to higher education in Kosovo

Ecological Footprint and Carbon Footprint as an environmental indicator for universities. Case of study: Polytechnic University of Valencia

Joint action to improve the impact of university development cooperation: Catalan universities promote an University Development Cooperation Plan

Sustanaible Management of Wastes

Fostering the Renewal of Learning and Teaching in the Field of Aboriginal Issues: DIALOG’s Nomadic University

Environmental Sciences Graduate Multidisciplinary Course: A Collaborative, Interdisciplinary, Socially Committed Project for Regional Sustainability

Innovative teacher training in remote Australian Indigenous communities: A sustainable staffing model

Special Course on Environmental Rehabilitation in Asia

The Challenges of Higher Education in the 21st Century

Study Programme Sustainable Development. A Cross-Cutting Agenda for Bachelor Students

Knowledge for The World We Want: The Emergence of the Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research (GACER)

Living and Learning Sustainability in Higher Education: A Research Study on Indicators of Social Learning

Process Model of Intercultural Competence

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