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Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education Institutions • Sandra Caeiro and Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education Institutions Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education Institutions Education Higher Assessment in Sustainability • Sandra Caeiro and Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education Institutions Edited by Sandra Caeiro and Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Sustainability www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education Institutions Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education Institutions Special Issue Editors Sandra Caeiro Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro MDPI • Basel • Beijing • Wuhan • Barcelona • Belgrade • Manchester • Tokyo • Cluj • Tianjin Special Issue Editors Sandra Caeiro Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro Universidade Aberta University of Aveiro Portugal Portugal Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel, Switzerland This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050) (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/ special issues/sus assess edu). For citation purposes, cite each article independently as indicated on the article page online and as indicated below: LastName, A.A.; LastName, B.B.; LastName, C.C. Article Title. Journal Name Year, Article Number, Page Range. ISBN 978-3-03936-535-7 (Hbk) ISBN 978-3-03936-536-4 (PDF) c 2020 by the authors. Articles in this book are Open Access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. The book as a whole is distributed by MDPI under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. Contents About the Special Issue Editors ..................................... vii Sandra Caeiro and Ulisses M. Azeiteiro Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education Institutions Reprinted from: Sustainability 2020, 12, 3433, doi:10.3390/su12083433 ................ 1 Brian Pompeii, Yi-Wen Chiu, Dawn Neill, David Braun, Gregg Fiegel, Rebekah Oulton, Joseph Ragsdale and Kylee Singh Identifying and Overcoming Barriers to Integrating Sustainability across the Curriculum at a Teaching-Oriented University Reprinted from: Sustainability 2019, 11, 2652, doi:10.3390/su11092652 ................ 5 Zhimin Liu, Goodluck Jacob Moshi and Cynthia Mwonya Awuor Sustainability and Indicators of Newly Formed World-Class Universities (NFWCUs) between 2010 and 2018: Empirical Analysis from the Rankings of ARWU, QSWUR and THEWUR Reprinted from: Sustainability 2019, 11, 2745, doi:10.3390/su11102745 ................ 23 Carla Farinha, Sandra Caeiro and Ulisses Azeiteiro Sustainability Strategies in Portuguese Higher Education Institutions: Commitments and Practices from Internal Insights Reprinted from: Sustainability 2019, 11, 3227, doi:10.3390/su11113227 ................ 53 Sung-Shun Weng, Yang Liu and Yen-Ching Chuang Reform of Chinese Universities in the Context of Sustainable Development: Teacher Evaluation and Improvement Based on Hybrid Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Model Reprinted from: Sustainability 2019, 11, 5471, doi:10.3390/su11195471 ................ 79 Daniela De Filippo, Leyla Ang´elica Sandoval-Ham´on, Fernando Casani and El´ıas Sanz-Casado Spanish Universities’ Sustainability Performance and Sustainability-Related R&D+I Reprinted from: Sustainability 2019, 11, 5570, doi:10.3390/su11205570 ................103 Alzbeta Kucharcikova, Martin Miciak, Eva Malichova, Maria Durisova and Emese Tokarcikova The Motivation of Students at Universities as a Prerequisite of the Education’s Sustainability within the Business Value Generation Context Reprinted from: Sustainability 2019, 11, 5577, doi:10.3390/su11205577 ................125 Pilar Marqu´es-S´anchez, Isa´ıas Garc´ıa-Rodr´ıguez, Jos´e Alberto Ben´ıtez-Andrades, Mari Carmen Portillo, Javier P´erez-Paniagua and Mar´ıa Mercedes Reguera-Garc´ıa A Cooperative Interdisciplinary Task Intervention with Undergraduate Nursing and Computer Engineering Students Reprinted from: Sustainability 2019, 11, 6325, doi:10.3390/su11226325 ................151 Nicolas Roos A Matter of Responsible Management from Higher Education Institutions Reprinted from: Sustainability 2019, 11, 6502, doi:10.3390/su11226502 ................171 v Sandra Caeiro, Leyla Ang´elica Sandoval Ham´on, Rute Martins and Cecilia Elizabeth Bayas Aldaz Sustainability Assessment and Benchmarking in Higher Education Institutions—A Critical Reflection Reprinted from: Sustainability 2020, 12, 543, doi:10.3390/su12020543 .................189 vi About the Special Issue Editors Sandra Caeiro, Prof. Dr., Department of Science and Technology, Universidade Aberta, Rua Escola Politecnica, n. 147, 1269-001 Lisboa, Portugal. CENSE, Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. Interests: sustainability assessment; indicators; higher education; campus sustainability. Ulisses Miranda Azeiteiro, Prof. Dr., Department of Biology & CESAM Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal. Interests: global change biology and ecology; marine biology and ecology; zooplankton; larval fish; climate change and sustainability. vii sustainability Editorial Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education Institutions Sandra Caeiro 1,2 and Ulisses M. Azeiteiro 3,* 1 Department of Science and Technology, Universidade Aberta, Rua Escola Politecnica, n. 147, 1269-001 Lisbon, Portugal; [email protected] 2 Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, CENSE, Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, 2829-516 Lisbon, Portugal 3 Department of Biology & CESAM Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal * Correspondence: [email protected] Received: 3 March 2020; Accepted: 9 April 2020; Published: 23 April 2020 Abstract: This Special Issue “Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education Institutions” provides peer-reviewed research from several geographies and institutions and covering various topics with the broad objective of achieving an assessment of the effectiveness and impact of different implementation dimensions measuring and evaluating how sustainability is being applied in practice. A set of nine papers, covering sustainability education, interdisciplinary teaching, sustainable assessment, governance strategies, commitments and practices, and social responsibility at Higher Education Institutions, contribute significantly to this area of knowledge. Keywords: education for sustainable development; higher education institutions; commitments; practices Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), within their mission and activities, have an important responsibility in the transformation of societies and, in particular, in contributing to the development of a more sustainable society. These institutions can implement sustainable development in different dimensions, according or not to a holistic approach, from education and curricula, campus operation, organizational management, external community and research, to assessment and communication. Ideally, these implementations should be based on a holistic/integrated approach that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO, Paris, France) calls the “Whole-School Approach”. Assessment of the effectiveness and impact of these different implementation dimensions allows measuring and evaluating how sustainability is being applied in practice, and highlighting weakness, strengths, and improvements needed. This Special Issue aims to share knowledge and stimulate innovation within the larger theme of Sustainability Assessment in Higher Education Institutions. It gathers nine articles from the USA, China, Taiwan, and Europe (Portugal, Spain, Germany, and Slovakia). Readers can find research outputs and theoretical discussions about knowledge, perceptions, and motivation toward sustainability education, interdisciplinary teaching for sustainability, performance indicators and sustainable assessment, governance sustainability strategies, commitments and practices, and social responsibility at Higher Education Institutions. Please find below a brief summary of each article, organized by chronological order of acceptance. Pompeii et al. (2019) [1] analyzed student and faculty knowledge and perceptions toward sustainability education at undergraduate level in a USA University. Findings identified diverse levels of sustainability knowledge within the student body and among faculty and revealed barriers Sustainability 2020, 12, 3433; doi:10.3390/su120834331 www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability Sustainability 2020, 12, 3433 in pursuing interdisciplinary sustainability curricula across disciplines. A common pattern showed a denial of personal responsibility when addressing sustainability challenges. Liu, Z. et al. (2019) [2] analyzed three global ranking indices, the Academic Ranking of World Universities, the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking, and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings in newly formed world-class universities. The analysis aimed to discuss, based on the sustainability indicators of the ranked indices, what the common shared sustainability indicators, their variations, and contributions in the future and the research
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