Integrating the Sustainable Development Goals into Teaching, Research, Operations, and Service: A Case Report of Yale University

摘要

Higher education institutions are important stakeholders in helping to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Recognizing this, in 2016 the Yale Office of Sustainability launched a project in which a multidisciplinary team ofstudents reviewed the publicly available information of Yale University's more than 4,400 faculty and researchers to determine linkages to the SDGs. Completed over the course of two years, this effort produced a matrix with over 100,000 data points thatis being used to support interdisciplinary collaborations at the university. Building on this work and Yale's commitment to ambitious national and international collaborations on sustainability research, teaching, and practice, in 2018 Yale led a half-day program on behalf of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) during the conference of the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN) aimed at exploring pathways for higher education institutions to engage with the SDGs. This article details the SDG academic review project and key components and conclusions of the IARU event.