Universities and the Sustainable Development Future : Evaluating Higher-Education Contributions to the 2030 Agenda.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of boxes -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I The role of today's universities in advancing sustainable development -- 1 Conceptual framework for understanding university engagement in sustainable development -- 2 Contemporary sustainability expectations and challenges for higher education -- PART II Universities and sustainable-development evaluations -- 3 A review of higher-education sustainable-development-evaluation practices -- 4 The state of higher-education sustainable-development evaluation: limitations and opportunities -- PART III Framework for enhanced university sustainable-development evaluations -- 5 Evaluations that matter: universities and sustainable-development transitions -- 6 Curricular evaluations that matter -- 7 Research evaluations that matter -- 8 Outreach evaluations that matter -- 9 Evaluating transnational-higher-education partnerships for sustainable development -- 10 Enhancing Agenda 2030-evaluation capacity at Northern and Southern universities -- PART IV Sustainable development and enhanced university process, outcome, and impact evaluations -- 11 Practical guidelines for utilizing the sustainable-development-evaluation framework -- 12 Conclusion: evaluation and higher-education contributions to the 2030 Agenda -- Index.

Since the mid-1970s, a series of international declarations that link environment and sustainable development to all aspects of higher learning have been endorsed and signed by universities around the world. Although university involvement in sustainable-development research and outreach has increased substantially, systematic learning from higher-education engagements has been limited. Universities and the Sustainable Development Future offers institutions of higher learning around the world practical guidelines that can be applied contextually to produce credible evidence regarding the outcome and impact of their teaching, research, and transnational-partnering activities. Drawing on innovative applications of lessons from experience with international-development cooperation, this book demonstrate the utility of a flexible framework that will inspire substantial improvements in the ways universities evaluate and improve their sustainable-development undertakings aimed at promoting Agenda 2030. This book promotes an inclusive evaluation framework that will allow universities to illuminate sustainable-development outcomes and provides a cutting-edge resource for students, scholars and policy makers with an interest in sustainable development, climate change and evaluation challenges.

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