The Role of Non-academic Staff in Designing the Green University Campus

Katiliūtė, Eglė; Stankevičiūtė, Živilė; Daunorienė, Asta

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47889-0_4

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“…The previous submission of Gravrilescu (2004) and Teizer et al (2013) were tandem to those of the current cluster as engaging direct and indirect stakeholder through training and environmental education for the institutional community (students and staff) will raise more awareness on the effects of inadequate IEQ environments. Moreover, Katiliūtė et al (2017) further reiterated that the lack of awareness and knowledge relating to IEQ could be a hindrance that results in the unwillingness of stakeholders to appraise the very same initiative that will transform the state of IEQ management in their institutions. Cluster two – organisational commitment : The second extracted component that comprised of four variable loadings. These variables were ensuring sustainable practices (0.678), execute duties timeously (0.647), forge collaboration (0.621) and resource monitoring (0.620).…”

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Exploring stakeholder roles in the management of indoor environmental quality of higher education institutes in South Africa

Ndou

Aigbavboa

Thwala

2021

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PurposeThis study aims to explore the influential role stakeholder play in the management of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in facilities of higher education institutions (HEIs) in South Africa. By defining the indoor environmental challenges facing HEI's, an alternative redress to these challenges can be achieved through stakeholder management.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted a quantitative survey approach which was informed by a post-positivism philosophical stance. The closed-ended questionnaire survey was used to gather views from academic and administrative staff who were employed in various HEIs across South Africa. The literature review revealed 13 influential stakeholder management roles which were explored. The gathered data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics that evaluated the influential role stakeholder play in the management of IEQ in HEIs.FindingsExploratory factor analysis (EFA) revealed three core categories of stakeholder management roles to being community engagement and awareness, organisational commitment and objective function. These roles play an integral part of overhauling the current IEQ conditions in HEIs, which subsequently improves the quality of education through efficient academic and administrative performance.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the body of knowledge as it reveals that HEI, particularly in developing countries like South Africa, can improve their current IEQ conditions through adopting critical stakeholder management roles. Also, this study provides further theoretical background for future research in the area of stakeholder management which has been lacking in previous IEQ studies.

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Exploring stakeholder roles in the management of indoor environmental quality of higher education institutes in South Africa

Ndou

Aigbavboa

Thwala

2021

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“…Although the concept of sustainability traditionally relies on the triple-bottom-line theory, which emphasizes the balance among three spheres: social, economic, and environmental, HEIs have focused on the environmental aspects as the first step to truly become a GUs (Katiliūtė et al, 2017). In this process of “greening,” it is essential to get the involvement of stakeholders, both internal (students, professors, researchers, and administrative and service staff) and external (local organizations and communities, professional associations and colleges, businesses, government representatives, and legislators, and society at large) ones (Lipschutz et al, 2017).…”

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Green Tweets or Not? The Sustainable Commitment of Higher Education Institutions

Alonso-Cañadas,

Saraite-Sariene,

Galán-Valdivieso

et al. 2023

SAGE Open

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Higher education organizations are increasingly playing a key role in promoting Sustainable Development within society by disclosing information about applied strategies and achieved sustainable performance via social media. Consequently, platforms like Twitter have evolved into decisive tools for fostering accountability, establishing legitimacy, and displaying engagement to environmental sustainability. First, this paper aims to analyze the impact of published sustainable content on Twitter on the stakeholders’ online engagement level within British green universities ranked by the People & Planet University League. Second, the study intends to investigate the influencing factors that enhance online interactions. To attain the purpose a theoretical framework was established and a text mining analysis of 145,941 tweets was conducted to construct both a sustainable and a general online engagement index. Finally, a multivariate regression analysis was employed to create two models based on content type. The results reveal a heightened interest in engaging with sustainable content shared on the official Twitter profiles of the sampled universities in comparison to general information tweets. Furthermore, the findings indicate that organizational attributes, reputational factors, and considerations related to strategy design and implementation of sustainable policies, along with the sentiment polarity of the disseminated content, contribute to elucidating the attained level of online engagement. These factors work together to involve stakeholders in the pursuit of sustainable development goals within Green Universities.

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“…Kivati ( 2017 ) analysed the effect of globalizing the educational system and its effect on getting individuals ready for sustainability challenges in Kenya. Katiliūtė et al ( 2017 ) presented how the administrative staff helped in designing a sustainable campus through interviews and provided proposals for universities to implement to achieve sustainability. Lăzăroiu ( 2017 ) stated that universities must make convincing undertakings to instruct for sustainability to prevent eventual risk and acquiring rewards.…”

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Enhancing sustainability performance of universities: A DMAIC approach

Hamdan

Alsyouf

et al. 2023

Syst Res Behav Sci

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This paper aims to assess and improve the sustainability performance at a higher educational institute (HEI) in UAE using DMAIC methodology, considering five sustainability aspects (knowledge, behaviour, concern, awareness and attitude). One primary and six secondary research questions were defined in the define phase. In the measure phase, a questionnaire was designed to measure the current sustainability level based on the five sustainability aspects. A questionnaire was distributed among campus populations and statistically analysed in the analysis phase. Participation in UI GreenMetric was used in the control phase to monitor the performance from 2018 to 2020. It was found that the communication college has the lowest sustainability level at 25% marginal error compared with other colleges. Also, students have the lowest sustainability level compared with faculty and staff at a 15% marginal error. The proposed framework can help HEI decision-makers assess their sustainability levels and suggest plans to enhance sustainability performance.

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The Role of Non-academic Staff in Designing the Green University Campus

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

Exploring stakeholder roles in the management of indoor environmental quality of higher education institutes in South Africa

Exploring stakeholder roles in the management of indoor environmental quality of higher education institutes in South Africa

Green Tweets or Not? The Sustainable Commitment of Higher Education Institutions

Enhancing sustainability performance of universities: A DMAIC approach

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