ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Leadership in Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1613011
This article is part of the Research TopicEducational Leadership and Sustainable DevelopmentView all 13 articles
The Role of Students' Leadership in Environmental Conservation at Higher Education
Provisionally accepted
- SIMAD University, Mogadishu, Somalia
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This study addressed the critical issue of how student leadership impacts environmental conservation in higher education institutions (HEIs), despite the growing environment-related problems this topic remains underexplored. The primary focus of this study was to investigate contribution of student organizations, leadership training programs, and collaboration partnerships with external organizations toward fostering environmental conservation among students. The study used a quantitative research design, data was collected through structured questionnaire from 331 students, and SEM-PLS was used to analyze the collected data. The findings revealed a significant and positive correlation between student organizations, leadership training programs, and collaboration partnerships with external organizations and environmental conservation. These findings highlight the important role played by HEIs in fostering environmental conservation through student leadership development programs. These findings underscore the need for HEIs to integrate student leadership into institutional strategies to build environmental competencies and promote environmental protection. The study contributes to the existing literature by placing student leadership as a strategic pathway toward sustainability in higher education.
Keywords: Collaborative partnerships, Environmental conservation, Higher education institutions, Student leadership, training programs
Received: 16 Apr 2025; Accepted: 04 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Mohamed, Omar and Jama. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Mohamed Jama Mohamed, SIMAD University, Mogadishu, Somalia
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