1 resultado para UNIVERSITIES
em Digital Commons - Michigan Tech
Resumo:
Purpose The focus of this research is to find out a meaningful relationship between adopting sustainability practices and some of the characteristics of institutions of higher education (IHE). IHE can be considered as the best place to promote sustainability and develop the culture of sustainability in society. Thus, this research is conducted to help developing sustainability in IHE which have significant direct and indirect impact on society and the environment. Design/methodology/approach First, the sustainability letter grades were derived from Greenreportcard.org which have been produced based on an evaluation of each school in nine main categories including: Administration, Climate Change & Energy, Food & Recycling, etc. In the next step, the characteristics of IHE as explanatory variables were chosen from The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and respective database was implemented in STATA Software. Finally, the ordered-Probit Model is used through STATA to analyze the impact of some IHEs factor on adopting sustainability practices on campus. Finding - The results of this analysis indicate that variables related to Financial support category are the most influential factors in determining the sustainability status of the university. The university features with two significant variables for Selectivity and Top 50 LA can be classified as the second influential category in this table, although the Student influence is also eligible to be ranked as the second important factor. Finally, the Location feature of university was determined with the least influential impact on the sustainability of campuses. Originality/value Understanding the factors which influence adopting sustainability practices in IHE is an important issue to develop more effective sustainabilitys methods and policies.
