Sustainability
Sustainability

Sustainability at AIUB

American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) is committed to ensure quality education and address national and international challenges through offering diversified course curriculum and syllabus. AIUB arranges continuous dialogues with the stakeholders to identify the needs of the market and prepare the students to meet the requirements. Considering the importance of reaching the targets and goals described in SDGs documents, as an academic institute, AIUB has taken several steps and procedures that is helping the community to contribute positively to reaching the goals by 2030.

Policies on Sustainability      

For AIUB, policies on sustainability are essential to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and these policies can clearly become a crucial roadmap for future generations to maintain good sustainable practices. AIUB has set an example for its students and the community by incorporating the SDGs into its policies and practices, which can help create a more sustainable future. AIUB always empowers its students and employees to become agents of sustainable positive change and contribute to achieving the SDGs.

AIUB Initiatives towards SDGs

Sustainable Development is one of the five strategic pillars included in AIUB's ten-year Academic Strategic Plan (ASP '23), that covers the period from 2023 to 2033. AIUB has been dedicated to promoting qualitative development, and as such, sustainability is a core value and responsibility of the university. The central priority of AIUB is to prioritize sustainability in its teaching, research, and innovation efforts, with a focus on delivering a sustainable future for its stakeholders, particularly its students. AIUB's Sustainable Development plan outlines the university's approach to addressing current and future challenges to achieve sustainability across various dimensions including socio-economic, cultural, and environmental sustainability. AIUB has launched several initiatives aimed at advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a particular focus on internationalization and fulfilling its social contract. Moreover, AIUB has made sustainability a compulsory component in all current degree programs and has integrated it into various other areas, such as research endeavors, library resources, student clubs, and other extracurricular activities. To further promote sustainability, AIUB has established the Dr. Anwarul Abedin Institute of Innovation (D2A2I), which undertakes projects in areas including teaching-learning, research, operations and governance with the aim of empowering students as future leaders.

AIUB is a Signatory of SDG Accord

SDG accord signatories accepting a key role in fighting global injustice and committing the institution to play a central and transformational role in attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. This commitment will look different for each institution and working together to achieve aspirational levels of sustainability for students, staff and the wider community.

AIUB SDG Accord Certificate:

SDG Accord Certificate

 

Initiatives of AIUB on SDGs

Following are the steps that is followed by AIUB since 2016 after joining the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative conference:

Teach sustainable development: A good number of seminars and workshops are arranged for awareness on sustainable development. The speakers and participants thoroughly discussed the targets and goals to identify the field/area where changes are needed. Accordingly, the curriculum and syllabus are revised after considering the feedback from all the stakeholders.

Encourage research on sustainable development: Recent data shows that the faculty members from all the 4 Faculties are conducting quality research on sustainable development and published journal articles, newspaper article, book chapters, research monograph, etc. The faculty members of AIUB also served as resource person in different seminars and workshop to share the research output with the other academic and industry personnel. AIUB expect that more quality research will be undertaken by the faculty and students in the coming days.

Green campus and support local sustainability efforts: The newly built permanent campus of AIUB in 13-acre land is one of the picturesque green campuses of the country. Although the modern state of art technology is used in AIUB campus, however, it was ensured the campus remains green. AIUB arrange periodically different awareness program for the community to support and ensure clean cities, renewable energy, good health, decent work, quality education, peace and justice.

Engage and share information with international network: AIUB has initiated to arrange at least 2 international conference per year with an aim to engage and share the research information among the scholars around the world. For example, the last conference arranged by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in January 2022 was held with a title ‘International Conference on Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges’ where 82 scholarly research output was presented and discussed among the participants.

Gender Equality and Reduce Inequalities: In the world half of the world’s population is women and girls, so it represents half of its potential. To achieve peaceful and sustainable human society development gender equality is very crucial. Empowering women boosts the socio-economic development and productivity of a country. Moreover, gender equality is one of the fundamental human right as well. AIUB is promoting gender equality through different schemes and policies not only in the higher education but also in the context social responsibility. Additionally, to reduce inequalities, AIUB is also supporting disadvantaged and underprivileged students in their access and completion to higher education.

To conclude, AIUB plays a proactive role for achieving the targets and goals for sustainable development by 2030. AIUB encourages various activities that address capacity building and develops skills to meet the requirements and challenges for SDGs.

 

SDG Reports

University SDG Reports have made significant strides in tracking progress toward sustainable development goals (SDGs). These assessments provide an extensive evaluation framework that assesses institutional practices' effectiveness from an improvement perspective emphasizing areas that need immediate attention or requiring revamping processes for maintaining momentum towards attaining long term objectives aligned with UNs targets on sustainable development. In addition to providing valuable insights into university performances vis à vis SDGs targets; SDG reporting has been recognized as one tool fostering transparency, accountability, and trust among universities stakeholders. Engagement with students, employees, and the wider community is enhanced by the transparent information given in these reports on sustainability practices.