The Effectiveness of University’s Strategic Plan for Sustainability through Collaborative Platform’s Deliberation Matrix

Authors: Ashiquer Rahman

Abstract:

The paper focuses on the significance of the university's sustainability strategic plan and emphasizes the usefulness of the collaborative platform-based deliberation matrix. It will equip the university's leadership to handle impending tactics and challenges with the sustainability of the university’s strategic plan. The study addresses the significance of a set of reference points that will precede operational activities for multi-stakeholder multi-criteria evaluation on the optimal standards of Sustainable University, as well as potential action for the strategic blueprint of Sustainable University. It makes reference to the university’s sustainability strategy plan’s effectiveness through a collaborative platform and deliberation matrix. The paper outlines the conceptual framing of a sustainable university by implementing a strategic plan over the collaborative platform and deliberation matrix. Optimistically, these will be a milestone in higher education; a pathway to prepare for the University’s upcoming implementation of its sustainability strategy. In fact, the collaborative platform and deliberation matrix both are enhancement needles for institutional cooperation to the completive world.

Keywords: Sustainable strategies, institutional cooperation, multi-stakeholder multi-criteria assessment, collaborative platform, innovative method and tools.

References:

[1] Rahman, A. (2023). 'Triangle Issues of Sustainability at the University Level within a Vision of Knowledge Economy and Society'. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Open Science Index 201, International Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences, 17(9), 582 - 589.
[2] Rahman, S. K. A. (2019a, September 17). Mobilisation du portail de médiation des connaissances ePLANETe Blue pour définir les nouveaux défis de développement soutenable au niveau des établissements d’enseignement supérieur et de recherche (HERE) dans l’optique d’une économie des connaissances. https://hal.science/tel-02494353v1
[3] Rahman, S. K. A. (2019b, September 17). Mobilizing ePLANETe.Blue knowledge mediation portal to deal with new challenges of sustainable development in Higher Education and Research Establishments (HERE) from a perspective of Knowledge Economy. https://hal.science/tel-03602497v1
[4] Momani, Kamelia & Nour, Abdulnaser & Jamaludin, Nurasyikin. (2019). Sustainable Universities and Green Campuses. 10.4018/978-1-7998-0062-0.ch002.
[5] Velazquez, L., Munguia, N., Platt, A., Taddei, J. (2006): Sustainable University: What Can be the Matter? Journal of Cleaner Production 14, 810–819
[6] Di Nauta, P., Iannuzzi, E., Milone, M., & Nigro, C. (2020). The impact of the sustainability principles on the strategic planning and reporting of universities. An exploratory study on a qualified Italian sample. Sustainability, 12(18), 7269. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12187269
[7] Mori Junior, R.; Fien, J.; Horne, R. Implementing the UN SDGs in universities: Challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned. Sustain. J. Rec. 2019, 12, 129–133.
[8] O'Connor, Martin & Small, Bruce & Wedderburn, Liz. (2010). Sustainable Agriculture in Aotearoa: Social Learning through Piecewise Deliberation.
[9] O’Connor, M., Bureau, P., Reichel, V. (2007). Deliberative Sustainability Assessment with the On Line Kerdst Deliberation Support Tool. 18
[10] Rahman, Ashiquer., O'Connor, Martin. (2019). ‘Building Knowledge Partnerships for Sustainability - Genealogy & Structure of the on-line ‘ePLANETe’ Platform for Collaborative Learning & Deliberation Support’. Technical Report (Academic): Collection R4EEDS No.2019-01 - L'Association ePLANETe Blue.
[11] Strategic Plan - 2025 | University of Pretoria. (n.d.). Strategic Plan - 2025 | University of Pretoria. https://www.up.ac.za/article/2749459/strategic-plan-2025
[12] Rahman, S., & Doussoulin, J. P. (2023). Innovative Approach and Tools for Sustainability Assessment of Academic Programs: An analysis on academic programs of the university, within a vision of Sustainable Development challenges. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8118756
[13] Goldman, Charles & Salem, Hanine. (2015). Getting the Most Out of University Strategic Planning: Essential Guidance for Success and Obstacles to Avoid. 10.7249/PE157
[14] R. E. Freeman, Strategic management: A stakeholder approach, Cambridge university press, 2010.
[15] C. Banville, M. Landry, J.-M. Martel and C. Boulaire, "A stakeholder approach to MCDA," Systems Research and Behavioral Science: The Official Journal of the International Federation for Systems Research, vol. 15, pp. 15-32, 1998.
[16] Mota, R., Oliveira, J. F. (2014). Combining innovation and sustainability: an educational paradigm for human development on earth. Brazilian Journal of Science and Technology,1(1),2.