Presenting the culture-building university model with an emphasis on the sustainable development approach

Subject Areas : Education Management

maedeh beykzadeh ¹ , Taraneh Enayati ² , mahsa gholamhosiennzadeh ³

1 - PhD student, Department of Higher Education Management, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran
2 - Faculty Member
3 - Faculty Member

Received: 2024-01-19 Accepted : 2024-07-12 Published : 2024-06-23

Keywords: culture, culture-building university, Sustainable Development,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research is to Presenting the culture-building university model with an emphasis on the sustainable development approach. In the qualitative part of this research, the opinions of 16 experts in Mazandaran universities of medical sciences were used with the purposeful snowball method. In the quantitative part of the research, with available sampling method and power analysis method, the opinions of 288 experts related to the research topic were used. The tools and methods of data analysis in the qualitative and quantitative part are interview-grounded theory and questionnaire-structural equation modeling (PLS), respectively. The results of the research showed that the research model has five main dimensions of causal conditions, including the need to know how culture influences sustainable development, the positive effect of a culture-creating university on environmental, social and economic development, the defensive and passive position of the university in cultural issues; background conditions including university staff and curriculum, research and culture-creating training courses; Intervening conditions including national and transnational policies and laws; Strategies and strategies include networking in the direction of cultural interaction in the local, regional and global spheres, research in universities with the aim of creating culture in the field of sustainable development, education in universities with the aim of creating culture in the field of sustainable development and streamlining and presenting a culture-creating model; The results and consequences include creating a culture of economic development, creating a culture of social development and creating a culture of environmental development.