Imperatives of Sustainable University Excellence: A Conceptual Framework

Tajammal Hussain, Jacob Eskildsen, Rick Edgeman, Muhammad Ismail, Alaa Mohamd Shoukry and Showkat Gani
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Tajammal Hussain: Department of Statistics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus 54000, Pakistan
Jacob Eskildsen: Management Department, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, 1, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
Rick Edgeman: Management Department, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS 67601, USA
Muhammad Ismail: Department of Statistics, COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus 54000, Pakistan
Alaa Mohamd Shoukry: Arriyadh Community College, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Showkat Gani: College of Business Administration, King Saud University, Muzahimiyah 11451, Saudi Arabia

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 19, 1-21

Abstract: This study envisions the architecture of a modern era university with sustainable standards of excellence. Sustainable University Excellence is herein defined as the ability of a university to excel in the core areas of knowledge creation and dissemination via the mobilization of human, social, intellectual, and financial capital to serve on socioeconomic and environmental fronts ethically, efficiently, and effectively to secure a sustainable future. Seven core performance domains of a university are explored: Teaching quality, research culture, technological capability building, accessibility, community engagement, internationalization, and environment, which should be prioritize in order to continuously advance along a sustainable excellence continuum. This study provides a self-assessment methodology that universities can employ to compare their performance relative to the aforementioned domains, thus enabling the identification of performance gaps, the knowledge of which is crucial to the formulation of more targeted strategy. This approach allows decision makers to form a more coherent vision for sustainability within institutional and broader contexts. The approach proposed herein incorporates the three aspects of sustainability that form the so-called Triple Bottom Line (TBL).

Keywords: sustainable excellence; teaching quality; research culture; community engagement; technological capability; internationalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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