Assessing SDG Awareness Among College Students at ELJ Memorial College

The study in question seeks to assess the awareness and understanding of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among students studying in ELJ Memorial College, thereby filling a gap in the research area with reference to this issue in the Philippines. The SDGs were adopted in 2015, calling for worldwide actions that aim to create better lives and sustainable communities, especially with the fact that education is at the center of these calls. This research intends to investigate the depth of students’ knowledge regarding SDGs while looking at how demography including sex and degree course affects their perceptions towards the SDGs. The study has used a quantitative approach and applied a tailored survey questionnaire on undergraduate students to collect pertinent data which was subjected to descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). It is based on the theoretical tenets of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) determining adult active citizenry, transformative learning, and whole institution-sustainability approaches. This research would serve as a good ground for targeted further interventions to make sustainability education better in ELJ Memorial College by indicating students’ awareness of the SDGs and assessing current educational strategies’ effectiveness. Ultimately, students would become intelligent citizens who can influence sustainable development in their communities and beyond.