Sustainable evaluation systems in higher education institutions

Sustainable evaluation systems in higher education institutions

Several crisis affecting the planet such as pollution and general deterioration of the earth resources are forcing mankind to rethink the actual development model. If this picture is added to population growth, consumption and urbanization in the next decades, the planet’s resources will not be enou...

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Main Author: Mendoza-Cavazos, Yolanda
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Published: Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas 2016
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spelling oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article-7442020-02-13T10:37:49Z Sustainable evaluation systems in higher education institutions Sistemas de evaluación de la sustentabilidad en las Instituciones de Educación Superior Mendoza-Cavazos, Yolanda sustainability sustainable indicators higher education sustainable evaluation system. sustentabilidad indicadores sustentables educación superior sistema de evaluación sustentable. Several crisis affecting the planet such as pollution and general deterioration of the earth resources are forcing mankind to rethink the actual development model. If this picture is added to population growth, consumption and urbanization in the next decades, the planet’s resources will not be enough to meet the future needs of global population. Therefore, a change is needed in the way of living and inhabiting the planet, and one of the main transformers in humankind is education. Educational Institutions are essential as active forces of change affecting human and natural wellbeing. Different sustainability concepts and the indicators of the three most popular sustainability integration and evaluation systems for Higher Education Institutions (HEI) worldwide were analyzed in this paper. HEI sustainability evaluation systems serve to evaluate the institution’s efforts to achieve their sustainability goals; however, the best system is always the one that is developed by each institution with its own indicators according to their objectives and policies. Las crisis por las que atraviesa el planeta como la contaminación y el deterioro general de la tierra obligan a un replanteamiento del modelo de desarrollo actual. Si a esto se le agrega el crecimiento demográfico, de consumo y de urbanización en las siguientes décadas, los recursos naturales del planeta no serán suficientes para satisfacer las necesidades futuras de la población mundial. En este sentido, es necesario un cambio en la forma en que se vive y se habita el planeta, y uno de los principales transformadores en el hombre es la educación. Las instituciones educativas son esenciales como fuerzas de cambio activas que afectan el bienestar humano y natural. En el presente trabajo se analizaron los diferentes conceptos de sustentabilidad, así como los indicadores de los tres sistemas más populares de integración y evaluación de sustentabilidad implementados en las instituciones de educación superior (IES) a nivel internacional. Los sistemas de evaluación de sustentabilidad de las IES sirven para evaluar sus esfuerzos para alcanzar sus objetivos, sin embargo, lo ideal es que cada institución genere sus propios indicadores según sus objetivos y políticas. Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas 2016-08-31 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html application/xml https://revistaciencia.uat.edu.mx/index.php/CienciaUAT/article/view/744 10.29059/cienciauat.v11i1.744 CienciaUAT; Vol. 11 No. 1: July-December 2016; 65-78 CienciaUAT; Vol. 11 No. 1: Julio-Diciembre 2016; 65-78 2007-7858 2007-7521 spa https://revistaciencia.uat.edu.mx/index.php/CienciaUAT/article/view/744/387 https://revistaciencia.uat.edu.mx/index.php/CienciaUAT/article/view/744/508 https://revistaciencia.uat.edu.mx/index.php/CienciaUAT/article/view/744/722 Derechos de autor 2016 CienciaUAT
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description Several crisis affecting the planet such as pollution and general deterioration of the earth resources are forcing mankind to rethink the actual development model. If this picture is added to population growth, consumption and urbanization in the next decades, the planet’s resources will not be enough to meet the future needs of global population. Therefore, a change is needed in the way of living and inhabiting the planet, and one of the main transformers in humankind is education. Educational Institutions are essential as active forces of change affecting human and natural wellbeing. Different sustainability concepts and the indicators of the three most popular sustainability integration and evaluation systems for Higher Education Institutions (HEI) worldwide were analyzed in this paper. HEI sustainability evaluation systems serve to evaluate the institution’s efforts to achieve their sustainability goals; however, the best system is always the one that is developed by each institution with its own indicators according to their objectives and policies.
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