ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Higher Education
This article is part of the Research TopicFaculty at the Forefront: Innovation and Inclusion in Higher Education TeachingView all 5 articles
University Governance and Institutional Management for Sustainability: Teachers' Perspectives on Policy Implementation in Higher Education
Provisionally accepted
- 1Tecnológico de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
- 2Corporacion Universitaria Minuto de Dios, Bogotá, Colombia
- 3Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Word count: 167 Universities are responsible for training professionals whose decisions in the economic and governmental scenario will lead to comply with sustainability principles. This research seeks to analyze the influence of campus governance and management actions on the implementation of sustainability in teaching, research, and community extension activities from the teaching perspective. A mixed sequential model composed of a theoretical phase and a literature review are conducted through bibliometric and content analysis. In the quantitative phase, a structural model is validated to estimate the relationship among variables. Results of the research showed that teachers act as a bridge to materialize the purposes and principles proposed in university governance actions and are responsible for linking the sustainable management of the campus with teaching and research processes. Likewise, it was identified that teachers commit to connect external stakeholders such as business communities to public institutions for training processes on sustainability. In addition, they are the main reference for scientific production and new knowledge that contributes to the construction of sustainability principles.
Keywords: Campus management, governance, Missions of the university, Structural model, sustainability, teaching perspective
Received: 23 Oct 2025; Accepted: 16 Feb 2026.
Copyright: © 2026 Castro-Gómez, Marulanda- Grisales, Zapata- Molina and Sánchez-Torres. 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: Johnatan Castro-Gómez
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