Hey and welcome to my channel again. This time, I am going to share with you guys some of the universities' roles in implementing the SDG's. Maybe lots of us did not aware of this roles because only few universities are currently implement on the practices of SDG's and one of it is IIUM (International Islamic University Malaysia), my beloved university. I just realize that IIUM has done lots of changes in all around the university in order to instill the good values in the students. Without further ado, let's have a deep talk about this.
Let me guess. You guys must be wondering on how the universities can contribute to Sustainable Development Agenda right? According to the website of SDG Knowledge Hub, it stated that universities are not in a compulsary situation to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a voluntary set of objectives that were adopted by all UN Member States in 2015 – but many universities have chosen to do so including IIUM. So, if we take a look at this situation, what do universities find so interesting in the SDGs? Two major objectives are the power to make sure that governments keep their commitment to implement the Goals and the value of providing a systems that will help students develop a well-rounded understanding of how global challenges need to be addressed.
Colleges and universities are expected to contribute not only to their local communities, but also the global community. Would there be any better way to do so than to encourage for governments to keep their commitment to implement these 17 Goals and to contribute to the body of knowledge around the SDGs? Moreover, universities are expected to instill their graduates with a great education and global awareness. The SDGs framework models a systems approach for examining global and local challenges. It can help students understand that success in addressing issues they are passionate about depends on success in addressing other issues, including on their own campuses.
Until then, can you catch up on what i meant by how the universities could contribute to Sustainable Development? So, let's look in terms of my university. Based on what the Rector of IIUM has mentioned in the video, IIUM has been contributing lots of effort in order to change the university into a university that is truly international and sustainable by adopting the WIT for HUMAN concept (Whole Institution Transformation for Humanising University Making a Novelty). Through this concept, the university introduced a Holacratic Leadership and Management where everyone are empower and entrusted to carry out their sustainability and nationality. Not only that, within a year, there has been a 29 Flags Projects are carried out that give huge impacts in 5 areas:-
- The breaking down of academic administrative silos in a transformational way
- The building of voluntary teams and teamwork across the academic structure based on shared experiences
- Allowing for greater creativity and social innovation into translating SDGs into local context
- Enhancing the community engagement through problem solving
- Capturing data information to be transformed into knowledge and wisdom
Furthermore, we as students get to experience lots of new things regarding the SDGs and we also could see how important the SDGs to our country to become a better place to live in the present and in the future. It is because through this activities, we eventually get to contribute somehow to our universities and to our beloved country. There are 6 things that we just learnt throughout this implementation of SDGs in our university.
1. Learning to Know (gain understanding and general knowledge)
2. Learning to Do (skills, competence and the ability to do something)
3. Learning to Live Together (depend to one another, have cooperation and mutual understanding)
4. Learning to Be (memories, ethics, communication)
5. Learning to Become
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